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• 2015
• Sep 12Choose HTML for UI Development
• Jan 4Handling Orientation Changes in Xamarin.Forms Apps
• Jan 2Launching the Native Map App from Xamarin.Forms
• Jan 1App and User Settings in Xamarin.Forms Apps
• 2014
• Nov 1Microsoft Fan Boy Goes To Google
• Jul 21Future Proof Your Technical Interviewing Process: The Phone Screen
• Jul 17Moving My ASP.NET Web Site to Disqus
• Jul 11Moving My Site to Azure: DNS & SSL
• Jul 8Moving My Site to Azure: ASP.NET MVC 2
• Jul 7Moving My Site to Azure: The Database
• 2013
• Dec 23Bringing The Popular Tech Meetups to Portland
• 2011
• Dec 27GUI REPL for Roslyn
• Dec 27Moving to the Cloud Part 2: Mostly Sunny
• Dec 16Sells Manor: Running 64-bit Win8 on My MacBook Air
• Dec 14Moving My Data To The Cloud: Stormy Weather
• Dec 13Goodbye Microsoft, Hello Telerik!
• 2010
• Dec 29Enabling the Tip Calculator in Your Brain
• Oct 27A Function That Forces
• Aug 8Why can’t it all just be messages?
• Apr 2College info for my sophomore
• Mar 21you may experience some technical difficulties
• Mar 18On Building a Data-Driven E-Commerce Site
• Mar 11The incomplete list of impolite WP7 dev requests
• Mar 9Creating a Lazy Sequence of Directory Descendants in C#
• Mar 9The incomplete list of impolite WP7 user feature requests
• Mar 3Please don’t run apps in the background on my WP7 phone!
• Feb 2We need cloud apps to use cloud drives
• 2009
• Dec 20Stead Defines ‘Customer’
• Dec 20How To Handle Angry Callers in 7 Not-So-Easy Steps
• Nov 22Do you know someone that needs dinner this Thanksgiving?
• Oct 22The New Microsoft Store Looks Cool
• Sep 15The Downside of Transparency
• Jul 10PowerBoots makes me want to use PowerShell!
• Jul 8Dynamic Languages: A Separation of Concerns
• Apr 17Win7 killed a feature I love in Vista!
• Apr 17Twitter takes a bite out of blogs
• Mar 15Why I Hate My iPhone
• Mar 14How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Twitter
• Jan 4Eat Less and Exercise: Before and After
• 2008
• Nov 12tvrss.net + uTorrent + FiOS + WHS + 360 = DVR Bliss
• Sep 30MS + jQuery: This Is Huge!
• Sep 5I don’t pretend to understand advertising
• Sep 4Programming WPF goes into 3rd printing
• Aug 27Where did my old Word command go in new Word?
• Aug 14Digigirlz Rock!
• Jun 23George Carlin, Rest In Peace
• Jun 13Losing weight the old fashioned way: tonsilectomy
• May 18The Next Generation
• Apr 30Why I Love My Tribe and Want You To Join It!
• Mar 22Nobody Knows Shoes: The Book — Pure Genius!
• Mar 3Programming WPF: “Programming Book of the Decade”
• Feb 21Programming WPF enters 2nd printing!
• Feb 20Bridging object models: the faux-object idiom
• Jan 17Bookscan says “Programming WPF” is #3 .NET book!
• Jan 8WPF Book Easter Egg
• Jan 6The Annotated Turing!
• Jan 5Time for some anti-social networking
• Jan 4“So easy to read, it should be illegal”
• Jan 3WHS Continues to Rock My World
• 2007
• Dec 27Christmas Delight
• Dec 26The Sidekick Phone Sucks
• Dec 23Posting from my OLPC PC
• Dec 12Conversing In Italian over the Interweb
• Dec 10Give Them a Fish or Teach ’em To Fish?
• Nov 30MS Math Add-In for Word 2007
• Nov 271 Setup == Innumerable Uninstalls?
• Nov 27Why aren’t Windows settings stored in %HOMEPATH%?
• Nov 26I had to load FireFox on my machine yesterday
• Nov 26C# 3.0 in a Nutshell, LINQPad and Pure Genius
• Nov 5Volunteering as Christmas Present?
• Oct 29The Future of Telecommuting
• Oct 28Working Remotely for Microsoft: Misc Tips & Tricks
• Oct 27Working Remotely for Microsoft: What Are the Consequences?
• Oct 26Working Remotely for Microsoft: Can You Communicate Effectively From Home During Meetings?
• Oct 25Working Remotely for Microsoft: Can You Communicate Effectively From Home?
• Oct 24Working Remotely for Microsoft: Can I Find Someone To Let Me Work From Home?
• Oct 23Working Remotely for Microsoft: Can You Focus On Work At Home?
• Oct 22The Whiteboard Whisperer: Working Remotely for Microsoft
• Oct 19Fun With GridView*RowPresenter
• Aug 28“Programming WPF” (finally) shipping!
• Aug 17How to write a book - the short honest truth
• Aug 14“How you doin’?”
• Jul 17Programming WPF, 2e (RTM Edition) on Amazon!
• Jun 14The T-Mobile Wing rocks! ’til the battery dies…
• May 28Why do we pick on journalism majors, so?
• May 28Sometimes I crack myself up
• Apr 29On becoming an empty nester…
• Apr 29Glyn Griffiths: Ian’s Dad and Damn Fine Reviewer
• Apr 16My Foreword To ChrisAn’s “Essential WPF”
• Apr 14Best WPF Resources?
• Apr 11“Student who needs to interview a programmer”
• Mar 27The Microsoft “Sells” Department
• Mar 10Programming WPF: Rough Cuts
• Mar 3Using my XBox 360 for Corp. Video Conferencing
• Jan 21Boogers and My Writing Process
• Jan 4Five Things You Don’t Know About Me
• 2006
• Nov 24Xbox Video Marketplace Worked Great For Me
• Nov 23I’m Thankful for Windows Vista
• Nov 22Dammit!
• Nov 13Costco + Busted Xbox 360 = Happiness
• Nov 8Our Long National Nightmare is Over
• Nov 4Pay As You Go Phones For the Boys
• Oct 18Isaiah Okorie Asks “How do you do what you do?”
• Sep 27Horning in on Hanselminutes
• Sep 8Amazon Unbox — what about my TV?
• Sep 5Congrats To Mr. Petzold on this WPF Review
• Aug 18Fixing the Internet
• Aug 18The Internet Is a Meritocracy
• Aug 15$33 On Bookpool: Windows Forms 2.0 Programming
• Aug 1424 and the Comic Book Archive
• Aug 13Get ’Em While They’re Hot
• Aug 11We Sold A Copy of ATL Internals!
• Aug 8The Media Center PC ain’t a desktop; it’s a server
• Aug 33 Degrees of Email Separation
• Jul 30Custom Settings Provider in .NET 2.0
• Jul 29Laura Foy makes on10.net for me
• Jul 23An Embarrassment of WPF Riches
• Jul 17DVD Wars. Huh. What is it good for?
• Jul 6Struggling with NUnit (2.2)
• Jul 6Struggling with NUnit (2.2)
• Jun 27When to ship a book is hard to know these days…
• Jun 16PM Skill #9: Team Off-site
• May 24T-Mobile Smartphone Fun Facts
• May 23Don’t want to skew Amazon reviews
• May 22Google’s 2-day interview process
• May 22Post an Amazon review and you get my royalties
• May 19WinForms 2.0 book @ the printer
• May 19The Sells Brothers Meet the Edwards Brothers
• May 12A C# Bedtime Story Updated for C# 2.0
• May 9ATL Internals, 2e, available for pre-order
• Apr 18WinForms 2.0 book just about ready
• Mar 16I just watched my son learn to fear the computer
• Mar 11My $366 Vista PC
• Feb 25testing
• Feb 25PM Skill #9: Learn From The Masters
• Feb 24PM Skill #8: Give Credit Freely
• Feb 15A Reviewing Trick I Learned A Long Time Ago
• Feb 15Scrum is very focusing
• Feb 10Multi-Touch Interaction Research
• Feb 10My Favorite Wiki: pinvoke.net
• Feb 3PM Skill #7: Use That Meeting Time!
• Jan 31Japanese version of Avalon book
• Jan 31Pre-order “Windows Forms 2.0 Programming”
• Jan 31IE7 Beta 2 worth the download
• Jan 25Imperative vs. Declarative
• Jan 22Netflix for Books?
• Jan 19I want a service that “rips” books
• Jan 18I Hate Books
• Jan 17PM Skill #6: Be The Team Mom
• Jan 16A Toast to WPF
• Jan 16PM Skill #5: Unblock Others First
• Jan 12PM Skill #4: Exhibiting the Behavior You Want
• Jan 12Survey: The Future of Publishing
• Jan 11PM Skill #3: Getting Things Done
• Jan 10A Mac that runs Windows?!?!?!?
• Jan 5I’m really digging live.com
• Jan 5Mobile Movie Listing Sites Compared
• 2005
• Dec 29Dirty Publishing Secret: Indexes Suck
• Dec 28PM Skill #2: Building Consensus
• Dec 23PM Skill #1: Communicate, Communicate, Communicate
• Dec 22PM Skill #0: Know Your Job
• Dec 18How come nobody says “impeach?”
• Dec 16Windows Forms 2.0 Book Samples Posted
• Dec 16Windows Forms Programming 2005 in C# Submitted!
• Nov 23A C# 2.0 anon delegate “gotcha”
• Nov 15Turning off special features in DVDs and CDs?
• Nov 13USB HD w/ OS/Apps + FolderShare = Portable Computing?
• Nov 11After the writing is done
• Nov 8Have I missed anything?
• Oct 31What’s a group of geeks called?
• Oct 29Testing ASP.NET 2.0 port of sb.com
• Oct 26The Most Amazing Consumer Experience
• Oct 24WF Activity Context
• Oct 24Typed WF Communications Details
• Oct 21I’m starting to speak in numbers
• Oct 17Web Services and Data Binding?
• Oct 16More Workflow Communciation Spelunking
• Oct 14Workflow Communication Spelunking
• Oct 10Open Office is a “real” thing
• Oct 8I’m also a huge Ian fan, as you should be
• Oct 8I’m a fan
• Oct 8Wise Advice from Tyler Brown
• Oct 6The Competition
• Oct 6How I Stopped Worrying And Learned To Love the Reboot
• Oct 3I don’t ever want to unpack my books
• Sep 30I need Outlook’s new anti-phishing support
• Sep 22My Product Group Fun: 2
• Sep 18Please Post Reviews of Avalon Book
• Sep 15WPF Book Sold Out Again, More Coming on Friday
• Sep 14Programming WPF: Sold Out @ the PDC, More Coming
• Sep 9MS Hurricane Katrina Relief Efforts
• Sep 6I’m in
• Aug 22New Contractor Advice: Time Estimation
• Aug 20The List
• Aug 19Cool New IVR Feature
• Aug 12The Half Monty
• Jul 27Limiting/Monitoring my sons’ access to the ’net?
• Jul 16My First MsBuild Task
• Jul 10Is it creepy that I think this is valid?
• Jul 10Enjoying This Moment
• Jun 23My Worst Job
• Jun 20Theoretical Computer Science
• Jun 20My Weekend
• Jun 14The End of an Era
• Jun 13Love Reviewers; Hate Reviews
• Jun 9Never Give Up, Never Surrender
• Jun 7Career Path for Developers?
• Jun 4More Skype Love
• Jun 4Realistic Conference Expectations
• May 31Every PC Should Have A Camera, Mic + Stylus
• May 31Blogging is not marketing copy!
• May 30URLs in the Footnotes?
• May 27The Logic of Logic
• May 24Frequent Flier Miles Suck (Airlines Suck)
• May 24Story-Driven Development
• May 12Survey: Windows Forms Programming 2ed Length
• May 11Damn I Love Skype!
• May 2I am not a graphic artist!
• Apr 30I enjoyed THGTTG
• Apr 26The Value of Scoble
• Apr 24Status of ATL Internals 2e
• Apr 24Status on Windows Forms Programming 2e
• Apr 15Now *that’s* how you want a Virtual PC to be!
• Apr 11Reviewers Should Be More Like Roger
• Apr 11My First Week on a Microsoft Product Team: Wallowing
• Apr 9Geeks Rule and MBAs Drool
• Apr 1My First New Job at Microsoft
• Mar 30Leaders and Legacy
• Mar 30I can feel Avalon changing me…
• Mar 29La Vida Robot
• Mar 21A Coder in Courierland
• Mar 16I want XBOX Live virtual presence for my PC!
• Mar 11Some Of My Favorite Books
• Mar 2IT Industry’s Own Jobs Training Program
• Feb 23On Being Socially Re-engineered
• Feb 19I’m with Shawn — Constantine was Good
• Feb 16Hitchhiker’s Guide Might Not Suck
• Feb 12Airing The Dirty Laundry
• Feb 12Experimenting with Windows Alternatives
• Feb 11i-mate SP3 Smartphone: How do I love thee?
• Feb 11Local Boy Does Good
• Feb 9I Think VSLive Is *It*
• Jan 19The Reason For Code Access Security
• Jan 17Email Throughput
• Jan 1Death As A Possible Consequence
• 2004
• Dec 31Earthquake Disaster Relief Information
• Dec 29SlashDot is Wrong: MCE05 Rocks
• Dec 20We Need NetFlix for TV
• Dec 16Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
• Dec 16Getting Out The Vote: Save Ctrl+F5 in VS05!
• Dec 15Snorkeling Is Unbelievably Wonderful
• Dec 3Another Reason To Hate The Dentist
• Dec 2On Microsoft’s Transparency in 2004
• Nov 26Hurray for IE QA!
• Nov 25Microsoft Amnesty for Software Pirates
• Nov 19A Reason For A Home Gigabit Network
• Nov 16Art Tips for Programmers
• Nov 13Outsourcing to Arkansas
• Nov 11ATOM is to RSS as XML is to SGML
• Nov 11A Guy Worth Hiring
• Nov 7Concrete Examples of Software Factories?!?
• Nov 4Getting My Hopes Up On Episode 3
• Nov 4The Country Has Spoken
• Nov 4The Importance of Reputation
• Nov 4It’s The Thoughts That Count…
• Oct 25Here’s Some Marketing I Can Get Behind
• Oct 14Consider Yourself An Artist
• Oct 14Randy Jackson on Pleasing the Gods
• Oct 14A Quote To Live By
• Oct 11“How is anyone supposed to know that?”
• Oct 11All The Fun, Half the UK Price
• Oct 7Settings, Collections and VS05b1 (oh my)
• Oct 7Every Story I’ve Ever Written
• Sep 29BankOne: Special Victims Unit
• Sep 6The Week Before Burning Man
• Aug 16Where Are You In The Software Practitioner Triad
• Aug 5Mensa Has an Open Enrollment Day
• Aug 2I want remote apps, not remote desktops
• Jul 29I Can’t Imagine More Great Hackers
• Jul 27What Makes A Book Successful?
• Jul 21Hypothetical: What’s Best For Windows Developers?
• Jul 21This is *so* the wrong direction…
• Jun 30#1 Windows Forms Book
• Jun 26A Man, A Plan, A Canal, A Librarian!
• Jun 25My Experiments in Social Video
• Jun 25My Day With Edward Tufte
• Jun 16The Reason for ATOM
• Jun 7My First Presentation For A Distinguished Engineer
• Jun 6MikeDub On Solving An Instance of Writer’s Block
• May 29Turning Science Into Engineering
• May 29You Can Actually Schedule Inch-Pebbles
• May 28Great Minds…
• May 28Jury Duty
• May 26This Absolutely Boggles My Mind
• May 25Post/Reply Alphabet Soup
• May 21Employers Check References
• May 21Strengths and Weaknesses
• May 21Another Killer App for Web Services
• May 19“No coding question unanswered for < 24 hours”
• May 163 Years of Spouting
• May 15BBC Coupling: I Laughed ’til I Cried
• May 14The Advice of Our Fathers
• May 12Your Should Be Using an RSS Reader for Everything!
• May 8“Down-to-Earth Marketing”
• Apr 29“The Great Windows 95 Trade-In Program”
• Apr 29Safe, Even Simpler Multithreading in Windows Forms
• Apr 29You Clever IM People Are Driving Me Nuts!
• Apr 26Marc Clifton is a Prolific SOB
• Apr 26Chris Sells on Organized Chaos
• Apr 25Post/Reply Alphabet Soup
• Apr 24Freeing My Mind
• Apr 21What’s New in Windows Forms 2.0
• Apr 16The X in XP Stands for “Wow”
• Apr 14More On The Quest To Kill Code
• Apr 10I’m Loving the .NET Fx ARM
• Apr 6Filling In Missing Computer Science Knowledge
• Apr 4Welcome to 04/04/04
• Apr 3The Future Is eBay for Services
• Apr 1Tune into .NET Rocks Live Tomorrow, 9am PST
• Apr 1Let There Be Light In The Darkness
• Mar 30Buy My Comic Book Collection
• Mar 28Fun Meeting with a Longhorn UX Guy Last Week
• Mar 26Time-Shifting Radio?
• Mar 25What Every Conference Room Should Be Like
• Mar 25Checking Spec. Compliance at Build Time
• Mar 23The Next Big Leap in “Programming”
• Mar 20Programming Stinks
• Mar 19Review: Hell House
• Mar 19Have Some of WinFS Today
• Mar 18Quick Review of 4 California Theme Parks
• Mar 11Avoid the GAC
• Mar 9Study: We’re Eating Ourselves to Death
• Mar 8Putting the Fun Back In Programming
• Mar 2Living Two Lives
• Feb 26Same-Sex Marriages *Should* Be Allowed
• Feb 24Of Mixed Career Minds
• Feb 5Severe Beating Shown, CBS Shocked/FCC Investigates
• Feb 1On Behalf of Software Engineers, I’m Sorry
• Jan 31What Would You Save If Your House Was On Fire?
• Jan 30MS Blogging About Longhorn 14% of the Time
• Jan 30Betting on Longhorn-Only?
• Jan 29When In Doubt, Ignore Longhorn
• Jan 15Bush: Get Your Own Dream!
• Jan 9Surprised by Microsoft’s Openness
• Jan 3On Genghis, WinForms and How to Move Towards Avalon
• 2003
• Dec 23Lending a Helping Hand
• Nov 30Learning to Learn, Part II
• Nov 29The Wonder that is XAML’s Extended Attribute Syntax
• Nov 24I don’t know UIs, but I know what I like…
• Nov 15My First Meeting with BillG’s Technical Advisor
• Nov 3Time For An Exciting Career In Electronics
• Nov 3My First PDC as a Microsoftie
• Nov 3In Search of Expertise
• Oct 23MSDN Wants You
• Oct 20ASP Alliance reviews WinForms Programming in C#
• Oct 20Every Vain Author’s Best Friend
• Oct 15How Does One Obtain “Inside” Information?
• Oct 10Amazon giving 30% off WinForms Programming in C#
• Oct 9Nice WinForms Reviews in the Blogesphere
• Oct 9What Is An RSS Feed?
• Oct 3My 9-Year Old Has a Cell Phone
• Sep 29Creating Doc-Centric Apps in WinForms, part 1 of 3
• Sep 28Men Extinct Soon — Only 125K Years Left
• Sep 13Google is Scary Smart, or Just Scary…
• Sep 12“Move over Petzold, Sells is here.”
• Sep 12Respect for Marketing
• Sep 11Let us pause on 9/11…
• Sep 5“Your enquiries frustrate the hell out of me”
• Sep 2Holy Cow!
• Sep 2Windows Forms Programming in C# Sample Chapter
• Sep 2977!
• Sep 2Book of the Week at ASPExperts.com
• Sep 1Communication Is All
• Aug 29re: The real goals of marketing?
• Aug 26The Man Behind the Motion
• Aug 25Novel Approach to CodeGen
• Aug 25Perl 6 Essentials. Chapter 1: Project Overview
• Aug 25Another Link In the Chain
• Aug 25RSS Bandit Implements wfw:commentRss
• Aug 23In defense of continued innovation at MS
• Aug 21The .NET Show: Managed Code
• Aug 21VS.NET 2003 + Mastering VS.NET
• Aug 19Buffering .NET Console Output
• Aug 15The real goals of marketing?
• Aug 12I’m no hero
• Aug 11I speak for the trees
• Aug 3Positive Affirmation
• Aug 3No huggy, no kissy, until I get an RSS feed
• Jul 28My First .NET Show
• Jul 23Windows XP Remote Assistance Rocks!
• Jul 23Using GotDotNet Workspaces For Commercial Work
• Jul 22My $5 Digital Music Experiment
• Jul 17My First Visit to MS Studios
• Jul 14Alan Cooper’s Has A Dream
• Jul 13My First Flight Lesson
• Jul 11The Killer App for Web Services
• Jul 7My First Press Contact @ MS
• Jul 4Alvio — a very cool place to order computers
• Jun 23The Danger of Good Debate Skills
• Jun 22Learning to Learn
• Jun 20Naming My Feed
• Jun 18End-To-End RSS + Comments
• Jun 16Releasing Nested Objects in Rotor
• Jun 12Exposing RSS Comments
• Jun 11.NET Rocks Interview — Chris Sells (Again!)
• Jun 5Ref-Counting + Rotor Status
• Jun 4My First API Review
• Jun 3Submitting to Billg’s ThinkWeek
• Jun 2MSDN Article: No Touch Deployment
• May 24My First Meeting with a Senior VP
• May 21My First Month @ MS
• May 16My First Talk As A Microsoft Employee
• Apr 25My First Week @ MS
• Apr 21“Look with favor upon a bold beginning”
• Apr 17XML For Humans
• Apr 14Priceless
• Apr 4Oregon & Open Source
• Apr 3Testimony
• Feb 18Microsoft & Patents
• Feb 7Saving Your Career
• Feb 3Let The Language Wars Continue
• Jan 24OOD (The D Stands for “Dead In The Water”)
• Jan 23Sealed Sucks
• Jan 8New Year’s Resolution
• Jan 2Apps Are People, Too
• 2002
• Dec 20Keep On Cookin’
• Dec 10Of Eggs and Omelets
• Nov 27My Coding Standards
• Nov 11Hierarchy Doesn’t Scale
• Oct 26A Giant Sucking Sound
• Oct 17Type Safety in a Loosely Coupled World
• Oct 2The Fallout Begins
• Sep 13Never Send An Email In Anger
• Sep 4Attracting and Keeping Good Folks
• Aug 30Development for Developers
• Aug 28Newsletters Are Hard!
• Aug 13The Apple and the Tree
• Aug 3Industry Burn-Out
• Jun 27Where Do You Find the Time?
• Jun 25XML & Inclusion
• Jun 22Object vs. XML
• Jun 12Karma
• Jun 11Adding Ref-Counting to Rotor
• May 26The Truth Is Not Enough
• May 10Now the Fun Begins
• May 9For the Love of the Story
• Mar 13This is Not a Blog
• Feb 27Please Say “Why”
• Feb 27How Did You Get Your Start?
• Feb 27HTTP is Dead?
• Jan 22A Visit with the Visual C++ Team
• 2001
• Dec 18Too Many Secrets
• Dec 1Effective C# Available Today
• Nov 16Thank You, Don Box
• Nov 11If you knew .NET like I know .NET…
• Oct 17Be Your Own Teddy Bear
• Sep 17Flattery
• Sep 11Give Comfort
• Aug 23Q&A: .NET Cross Language Inheritance?
• Aug 17Conference.NET: Notes from the Field
• Aug 6What I Love Best About .NET
• Aug 3My Favorite Web Sites
• Aug 3My Favorite Software
• Aug 3My Favorite Books
• Aug 3Hanging Out My Shingle
• Jun 9Choose Your Defaults Carefully
• May 16Other Blogs
• May 15Rules of Engagement
• May 15Object-Orientation is Over
• Apr 21From COM to .NET