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Xamarin Evolve 2013 Talk Video - How C# Saved My Marriage by Scott Hanselman's Blog

In case you haven't heard, Xamarin is a fabulous company was amazing products and their Evolve 2013 conference was absolutely smashing. I was fortunate enough to speak at Xamarin Evolve 2013 in Austin last month, just after lunch one day. I wanted...
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How to enable Google Now for iOS devices (iPhone, iPad) with Google Apps for Business Accounts by Scott Hanselman's Blog

I've got GAFYD (Google Apps for your Domain) running mail for hanselman.com and managing Google logins for the family. (There's 14 of us.) Google Now (that's the fancy cards and predictive assistant) for iOS was just released (you can download...
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Exposed: A Blog Comment Spammer's Source Template by Scott Hanselman's Blog

I've been getting a LOT of Blog Comment Spam lately, just in the at two weeks. I run all my comments through the Akismet Service , and I pay for it. However, this particular flavor of spam has been making it through consistently. It has a pattern...
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Technology fails in film are the new Wilhelm Scream by Scott Hanselman's Blog

There's no other explanation. It must be a tradition like the Wilhelm scream . What, haven't heard of the Wilhelm scream? Well, once you do it's impossible to not hear it in every film. It's in freaking Lord of the Rings, and it grates...
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Programming's not for you? How about thinking? Be empowered. by Scott Hanselman's Blog

There seems to be two extremes of this whole "Learn to Code" movement which has come to a crescendo with the " What most schools don't teach " video from Code.org. People seem to fall on the side of "Everyone should learn...
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The Internet's Best Placeholder Image Sites for Web Development by Scott Hanselman's Blog

So you're making a site but you haven't got the images ready. You'll need placeholders, but things are changing quick and you don't want to make a bunch of images you'll eventually through away. Enter placeholder image sites. The de...
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Being a Remote Worker Sucks - Long Live the Remote Worker by Scott Hanselman's Blog

I've been at 100% remote worker at Microsoft for just about 5 years now. My last two jobs were both 7 year long gigs, so this isn't the longest I've worked somewhere, but clocking in at a half-decade, it's the longest I've worked remotely...
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You're just another carriage return line feed in the wall by Scott Hanselman's Blog

I love getting pull requests on GitHub. It's such a lovely gift when someone wants to contribute their code to my code. However, it seems there are three kinds of pull requests that I get. Awesome, appreciated and wanted. Not so good, thanks for trying...
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Teach your kids to be fans by Scott Hanselman's Blog

I love how social media shatters the barriers to entry for fans. I can tweet my favorite actors and authors, like my favorite comic artists or writers and connect with them in a way that has not just immediacy but a social connectedness that's so...
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I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora. by Scott Hanselman's Blog

I was browsing the web today, as I often do, with my iPhone on the can. (Yeah, you do it too, don't front.) A link to an interesting Q&A on Quora came along, so I clicked. And got this. Wow. This is bold, even for Quora. I can peek at one answer...
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Chasing an active Social Engineering Fraud at Amazon Kindle by Scott Hanselman's Blog

TL;DR: I've just spent several hours chasing a socially engineered (not password compromised) stolen Kindle through a series of phone calls, chats, virtual shipping addresses, UPS tracking numbers and more. The irony is that my wasted time is the...
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Plex is the media center software ecosystem I've been waiting for by Scott Hanselman's Blog

I've blogged about my Synology 1511+ NAS before and how I have added a few things to it like CrashPlan Cloud Backup and even discussed it on my podcast . When you have a headless server in your home, you're always looking for ways to utilize it...
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You are not your code. by Scott Hanselman's Blog

I'm a lousy programmer. However, I am less lousy than I was last year, and significantly less lousy than I was 20 years ago. Even still, there's a lot of crap on my GitHub and Bitbucket repos - but I'm totally OK with it. I am not my code...
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Cancer by Scott Hanselman's Blog

Cancer. My wife has, or hopefully by now, had Cancer. See that To Do List in the picture at the right there? That's how awesome my wife is. This is her list for the day of the surgery that would remove organs and important stuff and lay her up for...
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The Computer Backup Rule of Three by Scott Hanselman's Blog

I'm ALWAYS pounding people to backup. I will continue. BACKUP YOUR STUFF. If you care about it, back it up. Let's talk. Yes, I'm talking to you, non-technical friend. You're a writer, a blogger, not a techie. I get that. Can't be bothered...
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