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2009 5

  1. Popfly Game Engine Code on Codeplex
  2. Does Advertising Guide Content?
  3. Gidget Dead at 15
  4. Run Popfly Games Locally
  5. On Popfly and What’s Next

2008 36

  1. Enter the Porch
  2. Popfly Game Creator Beta, or "Badges? We don't need no stinking badges..."
  3. Chocolate. Mmmm. Chocolate.
  4. "VS 2008 SP1 Doesn't Patch VS Express"
  5. Time to Brag!
  6. Ten Fun Popfly Games
  7. Adding Your Images to Games
  8. Introduction to Plumbing
  9. Running Toilet
  10. Pandora and Classical Music
  11. Comcast Music Choice vs. XM Radio Web Sites
  12. Surprising Family with Food
  13. RSS Bandit "Phoenix"
  14. Art
  15. How to Make a Popfly Application a Full Facebook Application
  16. Popfly: My Favorite Feature This Time
  17. Why Build a Game Creator?
  18. The New Popfly Game Creator
  19. Popfly on Moonlight
  20. Turing
  21. The Art of the Demo
  22. Popfly Update
  23. It's About the Data
  24. What Happened at the Beginning of 2006?
  25. Popfly Nominated for CNET Webware 100
  26. Applying The "Ken Burns" Effect to Your Photos
  27. My Oven is On Fire
  28. Make Any Blog Show Your Most Recent Posts
  29. Taking Down Christmas Decorations
  30. Popfly's Silverlight Display Blocks
  31. USB Stick in the Sky
  32. Flexible Priorities
  33. Screencasting the Hard Way
  34. 2008 Predictions
  35. Right Angles
  36. Change of Plans

2007 54

  1. New Car
  2. Popfly Named to PC World Top 25 Most Innovative List
  3. Screencast: Encoding, Uploading, and Embedding a Silverlight Streaming Screencast
  4. Screencast: How to Create a Screencast 1
  5. Popfly Beta Today
  6. Web 2.0 Summit Kiosk Application
  7. Web 2.0 Summit Presentation Over
  8. 8:30AM Wednesday: Popfly Presentation at Web 2 Summit
  9. Social Networking is a Feature
  10. Brad Demoed Popfly
  11. Diminishing Returns
  12. VS 2008 Beta 2 Express Editions
  13. Preparing for the Popfly Town Hall
  14. FAM, SteveB, and Popfly
  15. Popfly Town Hall
  16. Stephen Shankland's Blog
  17. Latest Popfly Deployment
  18. Office Hijinks
  19. Jury Duty in Kent
  20. Spar Varnish...
  21. Coding Best Practice
  22. What "Vacation" Means During a Remodel
  23. Making Public Information Useful
  24. Windows Live Writer Updated
  25. Not Well Met
  26. And Now a Word from Gartner
  27. An Evening of Bujold and Trivia
  28. Popfly Updated
  29. Maker Faire and Popfly Results
  30. Twitter + Virtual Earth in Popfly
  31. Popfly Humor
  32. Maker Faire: Meet the Popfly Team
  33. Some of the Popfly News So Far
  34. Why I Think Popfly is Cool
  35. The Genesis of Popfly or What I've Been Doing for the Last Year
  36. Welcome to Popfly
  37. Ducks
  38. The Throbbing Floppy
  39. WPF Patches for VC# and VB Express Orcas Ready
  40. Visual Studio Express Orcas Available
  41. Information Wants to be Free
  42. Probably Old News to Everyone Else
  43. Are You a Dinosaur?
  44. Born vs. Made
  45. Hero Worship
  46. Do People Want to Tweak?
  47. The Power of Assertion
  48. New Encryption Technique Discovered
  49. News: Terrier Alert Raised!
  50. On i'm: Giving Easily
  51. Mix07 Around the Corner
  52. Removing the Vestiges of Winter
  53. Music and Lyrics
  54. Moving Off of Windows Live Spaces

2006 133

  1. Traffic Volume vs. Commute Time
  2. Finally: A Programming Methodology for Me
  3. Flight Tracking: Useful for Holiday Travel
  4. Sir Ken Robinson on Education
  5. Important Information (Not Really)
  6. Bold Predictions
  7. RTB Finished
  8. The Blogging Process
  9. Power Outage
  10. Programmers and Coke: What Happens if You Drink a Coke Right Now
  11. Jon Udell at Microsoft
  12. At What Point Did I Become a Mister?
  13. Hey! Wait a Second -- I Have a Degree in Russian Lit from Harvard...
  14. The New Coffee, One Month Later
  15. Calculating Operational Costs
  16. US Imagine Cup: Not Just Algorithms
  17. The New Coffee
  18. (In)Side Business Opportunity: Modding Microsoftie's Offices?
  19. Rail Resurgance Thanks to Wi-Fi?
  20. Coffee House Rock
  21. MP4 Player Review
  22. "Social Networks are Media Networks"
  23. A Feature in Vista Worth Celebrating
  24. Doing the Happy Dance
  25. Safari's Development Playground
  26. Top Eleven Google Products We'll Never See (Link)
  27. Outlook Map Add-In
  28. The Flexibility of Camtasia
  29. Adding a New Front
  30. Optiplex or Precision?
  31. Job Descriptions
  32. Amaze Me 2
  33. NPT Team Charter
  34. Amaze Me
  35. What We’re Doing: Cool Tools
  36. Adam Nathan Joins Non-Pro Tools Team
  37. We Have a Name: NPT
  38. Wi-Fi Bye?
  39. The Knees Have It
  40. De planer! De planer!
  41. After HTML and Javascript, C++
  42. Amusing Advertisement
  43. A Weekend With SPSS
  44. Top 11 Video Games You Don’t Want Your Kids To Play
  45. Interviews
  46. Dumb Idea Nipped in the Bud: Film at 11
  47. Things That Wouldn't Pass Through Airport Security
  48. “Some Day I Will Rule You All.”
  49. “…At Least There May Be Bacon.”
  50. First Post with Word 2007
  51. "Learn those things and Server is just a tame little kitten that happens to randomly vomit on you when you pet it."
  52. Attack the Critical Plague of Cat Typing
  53. Coding in Someone Else's Kitchen
  54. An Express Web Page Editor?
  55. Multitargeting and Express
  56. "Retaking your college women's-studies course and writing a new section for your paper on gender stereotyping and representational imbalance in the mainstream media."
  57. Express "Orcas" Principles
  58. Funny Watch Reviews
  59. Top Rejected Names for My Team
  60. ...And 24 Hours Later the Cats Come Out of the Basement
  61. "V is for Vendetta" Parody Trailer
  62. How Did You Learn to Program?
  63. Concrete Post Caps OK But Not Usable
  64. Who's the Customer?
  65. Forming Concrete
  66. Principles for First-Use Tools
  67. $250,000 VW Bug with Jet Engine
  68. Do Kids Still Program?
  69. "I see spastic animated gifs as the standard medium for illustrating stories in the future"
  70. Anthony Hopkins Strange Coincidence
  71. The Truth About 1080p
  72. Is Enormous Larger than Huge?
  73. "VB Developers Don't Make Me Buy $800 Aeron Chairs"
  74. TryRuby for BASIC: I Want One
  75. One Billion Words
  76. Software Enthusiast Scenario Fake Demo Script
  77. Neither Mort Nor Elvis
  78. bbSpot's Top 11 Ways to Celebrate Reaching Level 60
  79. The Orcas Software Enthusiast Scenario Personas
  80. Will Apple Accept Ads in iTunes?
  81. Awkward Game Quotes
  82. Scenario-Based Planning
  83. A Traditional Way to Learn to Program
  84. How MySpace Is Destroying Language
  85. 7:04PM PST Friday: Hit ZEB
  86. A History of Computers in Print Advertising
  87. Can Advertising in Windows Client Software Work?
  88. Visual Studio Express is Free
  89. Thinkweek Paper Done and Submitted
  90. Entrancing: Der Lauf Der Dinge (Run of Things)
  91. Hosted Software Development Tools
  92. Top 11 Self-Help Books in Middle Earth
  93. Think Week for a Developer Marketplace
  94. The "Doh!" Moment
  95. Sometimes Life is Embarrassing
  96. Fascinating: Map of Religion in the US
  97. Titanic 2
  98. Coming Out of the Woodwork
  99. What Law Enforcement Has Been Doing Wrong...
  100. Dynamic Languages for Tots
  101. Amuse Yourself...
  102. Got Questions?
  103. More Words
  104. The Evolving Cult of Personality
  105. "Heighth" Is Not a Word
  106. Asphalt and the Long Tail
  107. Explain Inheritance to an Eight-Year-Old
  108. So About This Ed Bott Character...
  109. The Non-Professional Team
  110. Words
  111. And These Are the People We're to Trust
  112. Teeth
  113. .NET CF on Xbox
  114. Patent (F)Law
  115. Web Services, Boredom, and Wrong Guesses
  116. I'm Radiant -- Radiant Floor Heating, That Is
  117. Insulated From the Real World
  118. What is the .NET Compact Framework Team Up To?
  119. The Web Based IDE Again
  120. Mice or Raccoons II
  121. Mice or Raccoons: IDEs and the Web
  122. How (Not) to Interview a Developer
  123. Watching the Drivers
  124. "Wizards for Dummies"
  125. Is Being Dead Dead?
  126. Tuscany Hiring
  127. Tom Yager Makes Me Laugh
  128. Not "Visual Studio Live": Call It "Tuscany"
  129. Stepping Out for a Minute
  130. On Posting Comments to My Blog
  131. On Being a Program Manager
  132. The Replies Come Piling In
  133. A "Live" Version of Visual Studio?

2005 82

  1. An Excuse to Go To Las Vegas
  2. Just Watch for George Bush
  3. Why Couldn't I Have Said That?
  4. Evidently, the Wait's Over
  5. No, I Am Not One Of The Village People
  6. The Truth About Blogs
  7. RTM is Here: Time to Remove Betas
  8. An Ad, but a Funny Ad
  9. Evolution of the Cathedral
  10. Are You Dumb?
  11. Supersonic Flight
  12. VB .Next
  13. I Suppose It's Kind of Like Goodwill or the Salvation Army
  14. Text Your Teapot
  15. What? No Captain Underpants?!
  16. Brilliant Serenity
  17. The Myth of the Once-Readable DVD
  18. At the Heart of Science Fiction
  19. Yuck. And Let Me Repeat, Yuck
  20. Oh, The Irony
  21. Shrunk/Shrank and Other Grammatical Observations
  22. You Need a Better Tape Measure
  23. Comcast DVR Trick
  24. Andreessen Posts on Ning
  25. Google and Sun: Room for Interpretation
  26. Gentlemen, Start Your Icons
  27. I'm Glad He Said It, Not Me
  28. This Job May Make You Go Blind
  29. Does This Mean Two-Minute TV Shows?
  30. Gilder-stern is Dead
  31. Superplatforms and Commodities
  32. Why I Blog About Meaningless Things
  33. As Seen on TV
  34. Just Read It for the Last Paragraph
  35. The World is a Strange Place
  36. Security Signoff
  37. March Toward Launch
  38. Call It 32 Inches
  39. So What's a PDC Like "Behind the Scenes?"
  40. Watching ChrisCap Give a Demo
  41. .NET Framework Dull?
  42. To The Screaming Children (You Know Which Ones I Mean)
  43. A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words. A Comic Is Worth A Million.
  44. WinFX Runtime Components and Windows Vista Beta 1 Available
  45. Shareware Starter Kit
  46. A Three-Hour Walk
  47. More Headlines to Love: "China to send pig sperm to space"
  48. Brad Evidently Needs a Job
  49. Another Amsterdam Bathroom Observation
  50. The Fly
  51. Scalable User Experiences
  52. Aaah, Amsterdam!
  53. Levers and Fulcrums: Where Does the Rock Stop?
  54. Hacks and User Experience
  55. What Does “In” Mean? A Conversation with Mary Jo Foley
  56. I’m Missing Something Here
  57. When Headlines Go Bad
  58. More Headlines to Love: Exploding Toads
  59. Thanks to the People Who Broke Into My Car
  60. Five Neat .NET Apps
  61. I Feel Mulch Better
  62. Fewer CS Majors?
  63. Headlines to Love: Trap-Building Ants Torture Prey
  64. Get and Post: Once More Unto the Breach
  65. Whatever Happened to the Micro ISV?
  66. Staff Grammarian v2
  67. NASA World Wind
  68. Clustering Search Results
  69. Workshop Work
  70. Pump Up the Volume
  71. Building Sandwich Boards for Fun and Not-for-Profits
  72. Celebrating "ZEB"
  73. Building a Shop
  74. At Microsoft, Monday Starts at 7PM on Sunday Night
  75. New RSSBandit Beta Rocks
  76. "2014: The Press As You Know It Has Ceased to Exist"
  77. Super Bowl Sunday: "If You See Something, It's No Big Whup"
  78. Interviewing at Microsoft
  79. Headlines that Just Seem Wrong
  80. What if I Blogged About the Press?
  81. The 18-inch Roller and the Shur-Line Edger
  82. The Errors of My Ways: Mistakes I've Made Recently

2004 76

  1. Old Car, New Mold
  2. Note to Self: Don't Joke About Rick Getting Me Coffee
  3. Having a Cup&#60T&#62
  4. Writing Secure Code
  5. Thinking about Windows Forms and Avalon While on Vacation
  6. Driven to Distraction
  7. Evaluating the i-mate SP3i Mobile Phone
  8. Heading On Vacation
  9. Windows Forms and Avalon Interop
  10. Can It Be True?
  11. Fixing My Father-in-Law's Computer... Or Not
  12. Windows Forms and Avalon
  13. If I Had Kids...
  14. Throw The Yule Log On Uncle John
  15. Building a Platform Bed and Renting an Industrial Space
  16. Are Home DIYers Getting Smarter?
  17. Oil vs. Latex Paint
  18. Comcast DVR
  19. The Greatest Musicals of All Time
  20. Comcast Channel 104
  21. The 1.3oz Bag of Coffee
  22. On the Beauty of English
  23. Looking For A Few Good Product Managers
  24. My Cat, The Radar Dish
  25. Top Ten Rejected Legal Disclaimers for My Blog
  26. Wines You Should Buy: The Short List
  27. Home Depot and Maytag: The Saga Continues
  28. There's Always A Worse Woodworker
  29. Interesting Conversation at Home Depot
  30. Maytag and Mold
  31. From Paint Job to New Second Story
  32. The Lowly Griddle
  33. Maytag Neptune Washer Lawsuit?
  34. A Loafer, Spending Lots of Bread, and Wow
  35. Getting the Job Done
  36. Score Me Some H
  37. It Is Done
  38. Raptor Ridge Pinot Gris and Plumbing
  39. On HVLP and Longhorn
  40. Another Eight Wines
  41. Missed Google Name Opportunities
  42. Zin Tax
  43. Questions I've Been Asked About Wine
  44. International Pinot Noir Celebration Results
  45. MSN Goes to .NET!!
  46. Off to Hotlanta
  47. Developer Security Certification
  48. What do we call ClickOnce?
  49. What am I missing?
  50. Must Drink Pinot
  51. The benefits of the humble coffee bean
  52. Good Customer Service
  53. 9GB Music with Random On
  54. Ted Hu Responding to my Google IPO Post
  55. On Google, Stock, and IPOs
  56. The Transparent Society
  57. Top Ten Windows Forms Applications
  58. What Is In a Name?
  59. Will This Change the Point System?
  60. Michael Howard: Funny, Good Guy
  61. Where Was I For 3 Months?
  62. Ed's Famous
  63. Brown Sugar or Muscavado Sugar
  64. Don't Harsh My Mellow
  65. Is Ed Trying to Tell Me Something
  66. On Jon Udell, RSS, and RSSBandit
  67. Mary Jo Noticed
  68. Latest WebMatrix
  69. Moving from MFC to Managed Code
  70. More on the Coffee and Beer Diet
  71. On Phatnoise and Cables
  72. Measuring Namespace Complexity
  73. Coffee and Beer is All You Need
  74. Interesting Outlook Plug-Ins in Managed Code
  75. The Cable Man Cometh
  76. Welcome To Your New Home