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32 Great Podcasts from my Podroll

July 10th, 2009 4 Comments

Inspired by this post from Bill Wagner’s blog, here’s a quick look at what’s on my Podroll these days.  I’ve listed each show below with its affiliated network or originating broadcaster in parentheses.  Please have a look through the list and post any other great shows in the comments.  I’d also love to know what [...]

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Windows 7 RTM in July??

July 4th, 2009 No Comments

Tonight the tubes of the Interwebs are all atwitter with rumours that Microsoft may reach the release-to-manufacturer (RTM) milestone for Windows 7 in July. The date being bandied about is July 13th which coincides with a Microsoft event in New Orleans. This is stunning news particularly when thinking back to the release of Windows Vista [...]

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ASP.NET MVC Tutorials

April 4th, 2009 No Comments

A couple of weeks ago at Mix ’09 the ASP.NET MVC team announced the RTW (release-to-web) version of the MVC framework. I’ve been looking at the framework and playing with pieces of it for a few months now, but due to school & work commitments haven’t really had a chance to give it a good [...]

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Twitter Acquires Sandy and Stikkit

December 15th, 2008 No Comments

Here’s a clip of a post I did over on the AGP Blog about the acquisition of Sandy & Stikkit by Twitter. It’s going to be very interesting to see what Twitter decides to do with the newly acquired technology, particularly in the wake of reduced services in nearl every country outside the US (read: [...]

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WordPress 2.7 “Coltrane” Released

December 10th, 2008 No Comments

I really don’t have any time to do a nice full-length post on the release of WordPress 2.7 tonight. So I’ll provide a whole bunch of links for you to get your 2.7 fix. Matt’s official post on the WordPress development blog WordPress weekly Podcast which will spend some time talking about the release on [...]

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