There hasn’t been a TOW in a while… due to vacations and frankly, no real good tips have been submitted! (or oozed out of the inky darkness that is my grey matter…) Therefore, I’m thankful to Euse...

Again, I’m posting another Visual Studio tip… this one is something I bet you have had experience with one or the other… Reference hopping When first using VS2010, I was glad to see that when I...

I’ve always liked my keyboard… as a kid, I had horrible handwriting, and got admonished by teachers for it. (note: going to Architecture school cured that, architectural lettering is very handy to ...

Thought I’d hijack my own DL to show you something fun…. (and send to LI office) I did a little project with my Arduino Duemilanove I made an intranet site to send text to a 20x4 LCD screen sitti...

width=”550” height=”167”></a></p> <p>What… you don’t know your alphabet?  Didn’t know that “DF-Final” is sorted between “DF4” and “DF5”?   </p> <p>Does it annoy you...

Quick and easy tips… for maps It is no secret that I love keyboard shortcuts… I hate having to move my hands away from the keyboard just to do some small movement with the mouse and go back. DUM...

So I've wanted to hike the Long Trail in Vermont since I was a kid. it is the oldest long distance hiking trail in the United States, spanning 272 miles from the southern Vermont border in Massachu...

I’ve been doing some interviewing for open positions at Microsoft… and one of the portions of any MS interview is usually a coding question to gauge the level of algorithm maturity of the candidate...

In my last post on fighting off a trojan horse virus, I mentioned that I decided to protect my newly installed OS by attempting a foray into the world of virtual machines.  My reasons for doing thi...

Last weekend, a virus got through all my defenses… ironic considering where I work (for a MS team that works on server security). My home PC was under siege for about 24hrs, after [someone] clicked...