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2025
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How Teams Grow - leadership (July)
Leadership
There’s a certain magic that happens in the right team, at the right time. I’ve seen it a few times in my career... whether it was a small crew at a fintech startup building trade settlement system...
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The AI Race in 2025 (June)
AI
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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Starving Artists (June)
Gamedev
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)
AI
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)
General
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 ...
- Demystifying AI Hype (June) AI
- The Brewmite (May) General
2024
- Copilot for Azure (January) Microsoft
2023
- What I've Been Up To Since 2020 (July) General
- Back Online! (July) General
2020
- Clarity (July) General
- Recollecting My Thoughts (July) General
- Social Media Diet (July) General
2019
- Dynamic Audio Posts (July) Programming
2018
- Programmatically Opening Pull Requests (October) DevOps
- Review Your Pipelines (May) DevOps
- What I wish I'd known about 3d Printing (April) Maker
2017
- Sprinkling Some Devops (November) DevOps
- Charging Fatigue (November) General
2016
- Xamarin Dev Days Orlando (September) Xamarin
2015
- Xamarin is Zipfian (September) Xamarin
- Bootstrapping Community (April) General
2014
- Better Know a Xamarin - Joel Martinez (October) Xamarin
- F# And Functional Programming (October) Xamarin
2013
- How Work is Changing (September) Software
- Xamarin (August) Job
- Exceptionally Simple Writing Tips (August) Writing
- Apps for Your Data (August) Apps
- Static Site Generator (July) Programming
- Latest Open Source Projects (June) Programming
2012
- C# 5 First Look (December) Programming
- Introducing Viewer for Khan Academy (Windows 8) (September) Apps
- Universal Subtitles C# API Wrapper (August) Programming
- Back in Orlando (July) General
- Twilio Request Parameters in ASP.NET MVC (July) Programming
- Multi-Armed Bandit in C# (June) Programming
- DarkSky API Wrapper for C# (May) Programming
- The Problem with C# 5's async/await Pattern (May) Programming
- Twilio-CSharp for MonoTouch and Android (May) Programming
- Parse an iOS plist on Android (May) Programming
- GoogleAnalyticsTracker for Windows Phone (February) Programming
2011
- JavaScript Engine for Windows Phone (October) General
- AI and Machine Learning (October) Programming
- R.I.P. Steve Jobs (October) General
- Calorie Count @ NYTM (September) Programming
- Conway's Game of Life in C# (September) Programming
- The Droids I’m Looking For (August) Apps
- SteamBirds for Windows Phone (August) Apps
- Udder Chaos for Windows Phone (July) Apps
- SequentialActionQueue in C# (July) Programming
- Exec-Sql PowerShell Function (July) General
- Minor PowerShell Prompt Customization (July) General
- MS Tech-Ed 2011/Udder Chaos on XBLIG (May) Apps
- Udder Chaos in Peer Review (April) XNA
- Lego/Snap-Circuits Mashup (April) General
- WebHelper for Desktop CLR (April) Programming
- Udder Chaos for XBox Live Indie Games in PlayTest (March) XNA
- Lemonade Stand for WP7 (March) Apps
- Khan Academy for WP7 Review (March) General
- Lmnd.st for wp7? (March) General
- Game Hack Day (February) XNA
- P2P Lending Data (February) General
2010
- Determining "place" Location by Averaging User Data (December) Programming
- Khan Academy for Windows Phone 7 is Live! (November) General
- Introducing Khan Academy for Windows Phone 7 (November) Programming
- Reading LendingClub Data in C# (September) Programming
- Windows Phone 7 WebHelper (September) Programming
- XNA for the EveryDay Developer (August) XNA
- Back in the Saddle (August) General
- Moving to New York! (June) General
- ASP.NET MVC Charts (June) Programming
- Smooth Control with Touch (April) XNA
- Enslaving Twitter (April) General
- XNA Slides from Orlando CodeCamp 2010 (March) XNA
- Windows Phone 7 Game Archetypes (March) XNA
- Approximating Touch Points (March) XNA
- Windows Phone 7 Flashlight (March) XNA
- Get Googling Orlando! (March) General
- Of Choppers, Physics, and Challenge (March) XNA
- Acer t230h Review (March) General
- Reusing PHPBB's Authentication System (February) Programming
- Which MultiTouch Monitor To Buy? (February) General
- Steam and XNA Redux (February) General
- Will Steam Publish XNA Games? (February) General
- State of Multitouch with XNA (February) XNA
- Custom Transactions (February) Programming
- Scurvy.Test v1.2 Released (January) Scurvy Media
- ScurvyTest v.next under way (January) XNA
- Resource Pool in F# (January) Programming
- XNA Resource Pool (January) XNA
2009
- The Next Decade in Software (December) Programming
- Cleaning up after MSTest (December) Programming
- Snap-Circuits: Review (December) General
- Semi-Literate Programming with C# (December) Programming
- Qizmt: MapReduce Framework in C# (November) Programming
- Executing PowerShell Scripts via C# (November) Programming
- Static Access to Request-Specific Data (November) Programming
- Simple Pipeline Event model with C# (August) Programming
- IServiceProvider Extension Method (August) Programming
- Blogging from the iPhone (August) General
- Peeking Under the Hood: Unit Tests (July) General
- Cross-Platform Javascript WebWorker (July) Programming
- On Personal Productivity (July) General
- MVC Pattern with Javascript (June) Programming
- Avoid Caching of Ajax Requests (May) Programming
- VSClean Command Line Tool (May) Programming
- Bayesian Filtering with C# (May) Programming
- Computing for Children (May) General
- Twitter Search via C# (April) Programming
- Innovation and Startups in Orlando, FL (April) General
- XNA GS 3.1 and Scurvy.Media (March) Scurvy Media
- MapReduce in C# using LINQ (February) Programming
- InstantRails: First Impression (February) General
- Converting a Lifecam VX-5000 to see IR (February) General
- ONETUG XNA Presentation Files (February) XNA
- Scurvy.Media Now Supports XNA GS 3.0 (January) Scurvy Media
2008
- It's almost that time of year (December) General
- Using the LateBinder (December) Programming
- New LateBinder (December) Programming
- Handy LinQ Extension Methods (December) Programming
- Finite State Machine (November) XNA
- In LA for PDC Next Week (October) General
- Microsoft Should Buy Pandora (October) General
- Scurvy.Media Question (September) Scurvy Media
- Self-Improvement Through Creation (September) General
- May Their Stack Overfloweth (September) General
- Rethrowing Exceptions in .NET (September) Programming
- Installing XNA 3.0 from Scratch (September) XNA
- XNA Presentation Source (September) XNA
- Boolean Magic (August) Programming
- Zune Review (August) XNA
- XNA Presentation This Week (August) XNA
- Introducing Scurvy.Test (July) XNA
- Creating Great Community Games (July) XNA
- XNA Input Guidelines? (July) XNA
- Exception Handling in XNA (July) XNA
- XNA Secure Unlock System (July) XNA
- XNA MVP Award for 2008 (July) XNA
- Adapting one Content Pipeline to Another (June) XNA
- Socially Aware XBox Live Games (June) XNA
- Why all the XACT hate? (June) Scurvy Media
- XNA Presentation (June) XNA
- XBox and the Case of the Mysterious Color order (June) Scurvy Media
- I'm @ ]InBetween[, where are you? (June) General
- Scurvy.Media v0.7.2008.0525 (May) Scurvy Media
- New XNA Site Online (May) XNA
- XNA Development on an iMac? (May) XNA
- Game State Management Designer (May) XNA
- Minor update checked in (May) Scurvy Media
- Scurvy Media Logo Contest (April) Scurvy Media
- Scurvy Media v0.7.2008.0427 Released! (April) Scurvy Media
- XNA Wiki (April) XNA
- New Version of Scurvy Media (April) Scurvy Media
- All dressed up, nowhere to go (April) General
- XNA Game launcher should show on my gamercard (April) XNA
- Triumphant Nerds (April) General
- Ain't life grand (February) General
- The Difficulties of Audio (January) Scurvy Media
- XNA/XACT Pre-Mortem (January) XNA
- bug posted on XNA's Connect site (January) Scurvy Media
- Sample Video Project (January) Scurvy Media
- Scurvy Media v0.6.2008.0120 Released (January) Scurvy Media
- Scurvy Media: InvalidOperationException (January) Scurvy Media
- Scurvy Media finally works in XNA 2.0 (January) Scurvy Media
- Scurvy Media: AVI file must be writable (January) Scurvy Media
2007
- DBP 2.0 Challenge Announced (December) XNA
- DBP 2.0 is around the corner (December) XNA
- Next build of Scurvy.Media almost done (December) Scurvy Media
- Scurvy Media v.next (November) Scurvy Media
- Scurvy.Media upgraded to XNA 2.0 beta (November) Scurvy Media
- XNA Game Studio 2.0 Beta (November) XNA
- Scurvy Media v0.5.2007.1104 (November) Scurvy Media
- Comments Disabled (October) General
- VS Color Scheme (October) Programming
- .NET Source Code to be Released (October) Programming
- Happy Talk like a Pirate Day (September) General
- Scurvy Media is now Open Source (September) Scurvy Media
- XSI Mod Tool (September) XNA
- XNA Video Announcement ... coming soon (September) Scurvy Media
- EA Skate. Awesome! (September) General
- Collaborative Multiplayer Game (September) XNA
- Using Windows Live Writer (September) General
- Trackballs, 3D Modelling (August) XNA
- RSS link back up (August) General
- XNA Video Library (August) Scurvy Media
- Further Updates (August) General
- RSS Link (August) General
- Site Moved! (August) General