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2024 1

  1. Updating Excel data with Project Siena

2014 1

  1. Common Questions (and Answers) about Windows Phone 8

2013 3

  1. Come see HDi at the Sundance Film Festival
  2. Why HD DVD Really Lost The Format War
  3. Who doesn't take credit/debit cards in 2008? Washington State Licensing, that's who

2012 2

  1. Using Flurry Analytics on Windows Phone
  2. Tricks and Tips for using the VMR9

2011 6

  1. Waiting for Your Windows Phone Beta App
  2. Using a Zune 80GB as a Car Video Player
  3. Converting Zune playlists into Windows Media Player playlists
  4. The Sinclair QL is 25 yrs old today!
  5. Zune in my Boxster: Part 2
  6. How Do You Debug A Movie?

2010 11

  1. More HD DVD players than Blu-ray players in America. Still. In 2009.
  2. Running a Family with Food Sensitivities
  3. My Secret Project is no longer secret: the KIN phone
  4. Using a UK PayAsYouGo SIM when you are a foreigner
  5. Andy's Random KIN Phone Tips Page
  6. Why Data Breakpoints are Disabled On Restart
  7. Why Address Breakpoints Are Disabled On Restart
  8. Cheap Video Card for Windows Phone XNA Development
  9. Using WCF on Windows Phone 7: Walk-through
  10. Blu-ray fails to overtake DVD as many predicted
  11. Celebrating the first Apollo Moon Landing

2009 6

  1. Error Reporting on Windows Phone 7
  2. Using LongListSelector without LINQ
  3. Real World WCF on Windows Phone 7
  4. Finding Your Own IP Address On Windows Phone Mango
  5. Attempting UPnP on Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango), Part 1: SSDP Discovery
  6. Finding the SSID of your wi-fi network on Windows Phone 7.5 Mango

2008 6

  1. Car Head Unit Compatibility with Windows Phone 7.5 Mango
  2. UPNP on Windows Phone 7.5 Part 2: Invoke
  3. The Best Microsoft Keyboard. Ever. The Natural Keyboard Pro.
  4. Native Code on Windows Phone 8: The assert Problem
  5. Handling Contract assertions on Windows Phone 8
  6. Getting the Name of your Windows Phone 8 device

2007 13

  1. Now Available: HD DVD Emulator for Xbox 360
  2. Vote for HD DVD
  3. Tide is turning: Paramount declare HD DVD only
  4. Vista Compatibility: My Personal List
  5. My First Program (circa 1980)
  6. Installing Vista: From Hell to Heaven
  7. Living With Vista: My First Few Weeks
  8. HD DVD: Audio Mixing, and why you don't need HDMI
  9. Fixing Letterboxed Widescreen content on HD DVDs
  10. Xbox 360 HD DVD Update Now Available
  11. Matrix coming to HD DVD (only)
  12. Sonos: The Perfect Network Music Player?
  13. Xbox 360 HD DVD drive now in black

2006 14

  1. See my early work: X-Debug from 1992
  2. Detecting over-Releasing on COM objects
  3. An Inconvenient Truth: You Must See This Movie
  4. Wanted: Power Strip with Switches
  5. Firmware Upgrade Available for Toshiba HD DVD Player
  6. Gas IS Cheap: It's Official
  7. Authoring iHD apps for HD DVD
  8. Being an Audio/Visual Early Adoptor is getting cheaper
  9. HD DVD is available in the USA!
  10. Autoexp.dat not working in Visual Studio 2005?
  11. Property Grids Suck
  12. Find new music with Pandora
  13. Making DVDs Kid-Proof
  14. HD-DVD News from CES

2005 19

  1. A Better Way to Search MSDN
  2. What does "pdb is obsolete" really mean?
  3. Need Two Camera Baby Monitor
  4. What am I working on? iHD, that's what
  5. Places where software should never fail: Your Dentists
  6. Shock! Horror! Microsoft release usable keyboards!
  7. Video Players for Kids
  8. Failures on IDirect3DDevice9::ColorFill
  9. My Vonage Story
  10. Good Places to Eat with Toddlers #2: Redhook Brewery
  11. Where is the Windows BMP Format defined?
  12. Good places to eat with toddlers: #1, Pagliacci Pizza, Bridle Trails
  13. New blog category: Fatherhood
  14. Updated NoStepInto article for Whidbey
  15. Moving on from the Debugger Team
  16. Windows XP Bluetooth Rant: One Year Later
  17. Does anyone use dbgclr? Or even know what it is?
  18. We want to cut Crashdump support : will you let us?
  19. The Da Vinci Code: Fantasy Movie Cast

2004 31

  1. DVDs in 1080i, from a network share: Nirvana
  2. Viewsonic V150p Airpanel Smart Display Review
  3. C# Edit and Continue is here!
  4. Pointer to new debugger blog and Update
  5. Halo 2: Will it impact Microsoft Productivity?
  6. Windows XP SP2 and the Visual Studio Debugger
  7. Magic Tricks with DLL Forwarders
  8. Shocking news: Google can't find something
  9. Please use the new Visual Studio Feedback Center: it rocks
  10. Confessions of a Technical Masochist
  11. Developer Job Opening: Visual Studio Debugger
  12. Debugger Goodies in VS 2005 Beta 1
  13. How Software Development has changed in 20 or so Years
  14. Debugger Window Menu Items: Where should they be?
  15. Visual Studio Key Bindings : why do we do change them?
  16. Why don't cordless phones have a global phone book?
  17. Roku HD1000 Review
  18. Visual Studio Breakpoint Helper
  19. TiVo for HDTV: At Last!
  20. An Ode for Programmers (apologies to Monty Python)
  21. Other Related Bloggers
  22. Quick way to open files in Visual Studio IDE
  23. Wireless Networking Troubles (aka I want those three days back)
  24. C# breakpoint troubles in VS 2003 : Work in progress
  25. Windows XP Bluetooth Support : A Rant
  26. How to Not Step Into Functions using the Visual C++ Debugger
  27. Why no C# Edit and Continue?
  28. Why the VS Debugger does not stop on first chance Access Violations (by default)
  29. Disabling Auto Expansions in the VS 2003 C++ debugger
  30. How much RAM do Visual Studio developers actually have?
  31. Introduction