How Work Kept Changing
In 2013, I wrote a post about how work was changing—a snapshot of what felt like the beginning of a broader shift. Remote work was still a bit of a curiosity for many companies but growing, side pr...
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Running PowerShell from C# in 2025
While checking my analytics recently, I noticed that an old post of mine from 2009 was still getting hits. It was a little helper class I had put together to run PowerShell scripts from a C# app. A...
When Your Team Gets Bigger - How Teams Grow
There’s something electric about a tiny team… everyone’s on the same page, decisions happen in a hallway chat, and the work just seems to fly out the door. Whether you’re two engineers knocking out...
Making My Site AI-Ready for NLWeb
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How Teams Grow - leadership
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The AI Race in 2025
A quick thought as I scan the AI landscape: the early gold-rush chaos has started to settle into predictable lanes. Most products and services now fall into clear categories, and a couple of names ...
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2025
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Starving Artists (June)
It's an unfortunate truth that the more connected to someone's passion a job seems to be (artist, filmmaking, game development, musician, etc), the less financially rewarding and stable the career ...
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Is Being Mean to AI Bad? (June)
The other day my smart speaker piped up ... thinking I had said the trigger word when I'd done nothing of the sort. Reflexively I snapped, "shut up, Alexa.". In that moment I was chattin...
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Domestic Manufacturing (June)
This is probably one of the most important videos Smarter Every Day has posted. He doesn't shy away from talking about a lot of the complexities of a global economy ... and also about the catalyst ...
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Demystifying AI Hype (June)
Not everything in AI right now is as new as it sounds. Every week there’s a fresh term making the rounds ... “agentic workflows,” “context engines,” “MCP servers.” But when you peel it back, most o...
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The Brewmite (May)
Sometimes life gives you weirdly unique opportunities. I wrote about my experience being in a beer commercial recently on LinkedIn (cheekily, in "Linkedinfluencer" style), which I've repr...
2024
- Copilot for Azure (January)
2023
- What I've Been Up To Since 2020 (July)
- Back Online! (July)
2020
- Clarity (July)
- Recollecting My Thoughts (July)
- Social Media Diet (July)
2019
- Dynamic Audio Posts (July)
2018
- Programmatically Opening Pull Requests (October)
- Review Your Pipelines (May)
- What I wish I'd known about 3d Printing (April)
2017
- Sprinkling Some Devops (November)
- Charging Fatigue (November)
2016
- Xamarin Dev Days Orlando (September)
2015
- Xamarin is Zipfian (September)
- Bootstrapping Community (April)
2014
- Better Know a Xamarin - Joel Martinez (October)
- F# And Functional Programming (October)
2013
- How Work is Changing (September)
- Xamarin (August)
- Exceptionally Simple Writing Tips (August)
- Apps for Your Data (August)
- Static Site Generator (July)
- Latest Open Source Projects (June)
2012
- C# 5 First Look (December)
- Introducing Viewer for Khan Academy (Windows 8) (September)
- Universal Subtitles C# API Wrapper (August)
- Back in Orlando (July)
- Twilio Request Parameters in ASP.NET MVC (July)
- Multi-Armed Bandit in C# (June)
- DarkSky API Wrapper for C# (May)
- The Problem with C# 5's async/await Pattern (May)
- Twilio-CSharp for MonoTouch and Android (May)
- Parse an iOS plist on Android (May)
- GoogleAnalyticsTracker for Windows Phone (February)
2011
- JavaScript Engine for Windows Phone (October)
- AI and Machine Learning (October)
- R.I.P. Steve Jobs (October)
- Calorie Count @ NYTM (September)
- Conway's Game of Life in C# (September)
- The Droids I’m Looking For (August)
- SteamBirds for Windows Phone (August)
- Udder Chaos for Windows Phone (July)
- SequentialActionQueue in C# (July)
- Exec-Sql PowerShell Function (July)
- Minor PowerShell Prompt Customization (July)
- MS Tech-Ed 2011/Udder Chaos on XBLIG (May)
- Udder Chaos in Peer Review (April)
- Lego/Snap-Circuits Mashup (April)
- WebHelper for Desktop CLR (April)
- Udder Chaos for XBox Live Indie Games in PlayTest (March)
- Lemonade Stand for WP7 (March)
- Khan Academy for WP7 Review (March)
- Lmnd.st for wp7? (March)
- Game Hack Day (February)
- P2P Lending Data (February)
2010
- Determining "place" Location by Averaging User Data (December)
- Khan Academy for Windows Phone 7 is Live! (November)
- Introducing Khan Academy for Windows Phone 7 (November)
- Reading LendingClub Data in C# (September)
- Windows Phone 7 WebHelper (September)
- XNA for the EveryDay Developer (August)
- Back in the Saddle (August)
- Moving to New York! (June)
- ASP.NET MVC Charts (June)
- Smooth Control with Touch (April)
- Enslaving Twitter (April)
- XNA Slides from Orlando CodeCamp 2010 (March)
- Windows Phone 7 Game Archetypes (March)
- Approximating Touch Points (March)
- Windows Phone 7 Flashlight (March)
- Get Googling Orlando! (March)
- Of Choppers, Physics, and Challenge (March)
- Acer t230h Review (March)
- Reusing PHPBB's Authentication System (February)
- Which MultiTouch Monitor To Buy? (February)
- Steam and XNA Redux (February)
- Will Steam Publish XNA Games? (February)
- State of Multitouch with XNA (February)
- Custom Transactions (February)
- Scurvy.Test v1.2 Released (January)
- ScurvyTest v.next under way (January)
- Resource Pool in F# (January)
- XNA Resource Pool (January)
2009
- The Next Decade in Software (December)
- Cleaning up after MSTest (December)
- Snap-Circuits: Review (December)
- Semi-Literate Programming with C# (December)
- Qizmt: MapReduce Framework in C# (November)
- Executing PowerShell Scripts via C# (November)
- Static Access to Request-Specific Data (November)
- Simple Pipeline Event model with C# (August)
- IServiceProvider Extension Method (August)
- Blogging from the iPhone (August)
- Peeking Under the Hood: Unit Tests (July)
- Cross-Platform Javascript WebWorker (July)
- On Personal Productivity (July)
- MVC Pattern with Javascript (June)
- Avoid Caching of Ajax Requests (May)
- VSClean Command Line Tool (May)
- Bayesian Filtering with C# (May)
- Computing for Children (May)
- Twitter Search via C# (April)
- Innovation and Startups in Orlando, FL (April)
- XNA GS 3.1 and Scurvy.Media (March)
- MapReduce in C# using LINQ (February)
- InstantRails: First Impression (February)
- Converting a Lifecam VX-5000 to see IR (February)
- ONETUG XNA Presentation Files (February)
- Scurvy.Media Now Supports XNA GS 3.0 (January)
2008
- It's almost that time of year (December)
- Using the LateBinder (December)
- New LateBinder (December)
- Handy LinQ Extension Methods (December)
- Finite State Machine (November)
- In LA for PDC Next Week (October)
- Microsoft Should Buy Pandora (October)
- Scurvy.Media Question (September)
- Self-Improvement Through Creation (September)
- May Their Stack Overfloweth (September)
- Rethrowing Exceptions in .NET (September)
- Installing XNA 3.0 from Scratch (September)
- XNA Presentation Source (September)
- Boolean Magic (August)
- Zune Review (August)
- XNA Presentation This Week (August)
- Introducing Scurvy.Test (July)
- Creating Great Community Games (July)
- XNA Input Guidelines? (July)
- Exception Handling in XNA (July)
- XNA Secure Unlock System (July)
- XNA MVP Award for 2008 (July)
- Adapting one Content Pipeline to Another (June)
- Socially Aware XBox Live Games (June)
- Why all the XACT hate? (June)
- XNA Presentation (June)
- XBox and the Case of the Mysterious Color order (June)
- I'm @ ]InBetween[, where are you? (June)
- Scurvy.Media v0.7.2008.0525 (May)
- New XNA Site Online (May)
- XNA Development on an iMac? (May)
- Game State Management Designer (May)
- Minor update checked in (May)
- Scurvy Media Logo Contest (April)
- Scurvy Media v0.7.2008.0427 Released! (April)
- XNA Wiki (April)
- New Version of Scurvy Media (April)
- All dressed up, nowhere to go (April)
- XNA Game launcher should show on my gamercard (April)
- Triumphant Nerds (April)
- Ain't life grand (February)
- The Difficulties of Audio (January)
- XNA/XACT Pre-Mortem (January)
- bug posted on XNA's Connect site (January)
- Sample Video Project (January)
- Scurvy Media v0.6.2008.0120 Released (January)
- Scurvy Media: InvalidOperationException (January)
- Scurvy Media finally works in XNA 2.0 (January)
- Scurvy Media: AVI file must be writable (January)
2007
- DBP 2.0 Challenge Announced (December)
- DBP 2.0 is around the corner (December)
- Next build of Scurvy.Media almost done (December)
- Scurvy Media v.next (November)
- Scurvy.Media upgraded to XNA 2.0 beta (November)
- XNA Game Studio 2.0 Beta (November)
- Scurvy Media v0.5.2007.1104 (November)
- Comments Disabled (October)
- VS Color Scheme (October)
- .NET Source Code to be Released (October)
- Happy Talk like a Pirate Day (September)
- Scurvy Media is now Open Source (September)
- XSI Mod Tool (September)
- XNA Video Announcement ... coming soon (September)
- EA Skate. Awesome! (September)
- Collaborative Multiplayer Game (September)
- Using Windows Live Writer (September)
- Trackballs, 3D Modelling (August)
- RSS link back up (August)
- XNA Video Library (August)
- Further Updates (August)
- RSS Link (August)
- Site Moved! (August)