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March 14, 2008 Utility to sort a WPF Resource Dictionary (XAML)
September 4, 2008 My first impressions of Google's new browser: Chrome
December 21, 2008 Windows 7 running on HP TouchSmart iQ804 – sweet!
January 1, 2009 How to (theoretically) re-install the HP TouchSmart Software on a new installation of Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7
February 8, 2009 Speed up your computer: get a 10,000 RPM hard drive now!
February 14, 2009 How do I store data in Windows Azure tables?
February 25, 2009 Word Cloud: Software Development Technologies, Patterns and Services (mostly Microsoft)
May 23, 2009 Read your favorite RSS feeds on your Kindle - installing and running "Kindle Feeds" on Windows
May 31, 2009 National Ignition Facility: 192 lasers that may create a new source of energy for humanity
July 4, 2009 Call me an ‘iPhone fan boy’
August 20, 2009 Forced to use VMWare on Windows Server 2008 R2, Hyper-V still doesn’t work
August 24, 2009 Cleaning up scripts for SQL Azure
August 27, 2009 Windows PowerShell commands to clean up scripts for SQL Azure
September 5, 2009 Tested .netTiers with SQL Azure – it just works
September 26, 2009 Windows Azure and SQL Azure Videos
September 28, 2009 Modifying .netTiers templates to support Windows Azure configuration
December 10, 2009 Visualizing Windows Azure diagnostic data
January 24, 2010 How to stop getting exceptions when connecting to SQL Azure: “System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: An established connection was aborted by the software in your host machine”
January 25, 2010 TechCrunch.com hacked… again
January 28, 2010 How to speed up your Windows Azure Development – two screencasts available
January 29, 2010 Red-Gate’s SQL Compare – now with SQL Azure support!
March 12, 2010 How to use the new Windows Azure CloudDrive feature – two screencasts available
May 5, 2010 Running multiple apps on the iPad at the same time (Multitasking) – now!
July 31, 2010 Microsoft Entity Framework 4: extending your DDL generation by adding indexes on Scalar Properties
October 10, 2010 I met Steve Marx and Ryan Dunn, two stars from the Windows Azure Cloud!
November 30, 2010 What services run inside a Windows Azure Virtual Machine Instance?
January 29, 2011 Tip: use ‘Twitter Search’ to get great info on events happening now
February 11, 2011 How to automate the creation of a Windows Azure 1.3 package in Team Foundation Server (TFS) for a web role hosted in ‘Full IIS’ with multiple sites
February 13, 2011 How to fix the error: “The communication object, System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannel, cannot be used for communication because it is in the Faulted state” when running a Windows Azure project in the local development fabric/emulator
February 13, 2011 How to fix the errors “[UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path '[{Guid}-mswapd-lock' is denied.]” or “"Response is not available in this context"" when using Azure Diagnostics 1.3 in a web role hosted in full IIS
February 13, 2011 Windows Azure SDK 1.3 – Problems and Solutions
August 13, 2011 How to securely access your Blink electric car charger from outside your home, using a proxy server (CCProxy)
November 5, 2011 Access Netflix and Hulu from outside the US: make your Windows 7 computer a Wifi hotspot that shares a VPN outbound connection
December 3, 2011 How to get a home phone number for $5/month with unlimited calls in the US and very low international rates (keeping your home phone number through Google Voice)
April 1, 2012 How to stop a 'Denial Of Service' (DoS) attack on your ASP.NET web site, aka "Using the 'Dynamic IP Restrictions' IIS Extension on Windows Azure with a Startup task"
April 2, 2014 ‘My Money Converter’: a great currency converter for Windows 8, Windows Phone, Android and iPhone