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10x Developers and 10x Projects
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10x Developers and 10x Projects

In addition to Scott’s and many, many other 10x Developer posts here are opinions from someone labeled ‘hyper-productive’ on most projects. Key Points 10x is a zone we enter at times, it

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Should I buy a 3D Printer?
3D Printer

Should I buy a 3D Printer?

Thinking of buying a 3D Printer? Let's give that thought a quick reality-check... I was ready for a somewhat hobbyist experience but it took way longer than expected to have the printer assembled

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    Paul Lockwood
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Compacting Virtual Machines (VirtualBox and VMWare)
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Compacting Virtual Machines (VirtualBox and VMWare)

Google has never linked me directly to this information, just theories. One day time permitted me to run careful tests so I am sure these techniques are correct/ efficient: Simple tricks to reduce

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    Paul Lockwood
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Filter log4net to a single thread using Notepad++
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Filter log4net to a single thread using Notepad++

Over the years I’ve Googled and Googled for a solution to this. Heck I even tried Bing! Finally time + an urgent need permitted figuring out a simple solution. To filter down to

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    Paul Lockwood
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Reduce back and/or neck pain with a 50 cent cardboard box
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Reduce back and/or neck pain with a 50 cent cardboard box

Virtually all software developers eventually experience neck and/or back pain. Mine gradually increased from light neck pains in 1995/6 to being unable to work one day in 2001. Doctor's advice: "

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    Paul Lockwood
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Technology

Bye-bye Mac OS X, hello Win7

Using DOS and Windows since the mid 80's it was time for a change. Vista was never reliable on any of the three machines I tried, Microsoft fanboys were killing creditability in the

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    Paul Lockwood
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Development (General)

TeamCity Release Build sgen.exe gotcha

TeamCity is great, I had it up and running with Automated Tests in just minutes. But.. attempting to make a Release Build generated the following error. Googling shows many people have the same

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    Paul Lockwood
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ASP.Net MVC

MVC Slides from Atlanta Code Camp

>> Click here to download the slides/ demos << Thanks to all who came and apologies to those who came and found standing room only - I intend to record these

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    Paul Lockwood
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Custom Building a Modern Mountain Bike
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Custom Building a Modern Mountain Bike

This was a dream bike build for me and lots of readers share the dream, so here goes: Build or buy? Building means you specify all the components. Even $5K bikes often come

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    Paul Lockwood
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Atlanta

Atlanta User Groups I recommend

A friend just asked me what .Net groups are good these days. Atlanta is the Software Capital of the South which means we have many great groups in town and I watch them

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    Paul Lockwood
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ASP.Net MVC

Jan 2009 ASP.Net MVC Slides

Update: The Release Candidate has been released. The demo below works fine with it too. >> Click here to download the slides and second demo. << Wow! We had a fantastic

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    Paul Lockwood
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TurboTax vs TaxCut 2008

TurboTax has been wonderful over the years but the 2008 price totally made me baulk. An eye popping $229.80 this year for my needs: $49.95 Premier inc Rental Properties + $34.95

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    Paul Lockwood
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Technology

Deleting data before donating

This was so easy I felt obliged to blog it. Under our house rule 'not used it in a year, so it has to go', our old P4 laptop is being donated. It

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    Paul Lockwood
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ASP.Net MVC

IIS7 Gotcha - COM Error 80040154

We have all seen the 80040154 COM error. Normally the solution is to run regsvr32 on the com dll so it is registered on the machine. "System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80040154): Retrieving the

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    Paul Lockwood
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ASP.Net MVC

jQuery DivFlip of MVC Partial

So you have a Partial in a div and would like to flip out the html contents with new results from just the partial... To para-phrase Obi-Wan 'this is the JavaScript you are

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    Paul Lockwood
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Technology

Google's shiny new Browser

Chrome is out, download it here: http://www.google.com/chrome. I know the title post was a little obvious, a quick web-search shows a stack of hits for it already :( Chrome is

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    Paul Lockwood
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ASP.Net MVC

MVC guru == PhD wannabe?

This is a plea to anyone who blogs, writes or talks about ASP.Net MVC. This stuff is pretty simple, let's not scare people away. In the last four weeks of learning MVC

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    Paul Lockwood
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DD-WRT on Linksys WRT54G v8

Update: Since writing this post in 2008 Linksys have produced v8.1 and v8.2 routers which may not be compatible with the instructions here. Luckily there are now 'official' guides for the

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    Paul Lockwood
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Presentations

DDD6 UK Code Camp

For my slides and NAnt + Cruise Control config files click here. DDD6 was the 6th UK 'code camp' and I was luckily enough for my session to be voted in. Many people missed

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    Paul Lockwood
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Presentations

How to suck at Presenting

Presenting involves elements of luck, I think we can rely less on luck... After a series of extremely well received talks for the Atlanta .Net group I almost bombed last time. Not a

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    Paul Lockwood
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Presentations

UK: DD6 on Nov 24th

== UPDATE: Registration is full. It took just a few days!!  == Registration is now live, these free conferences always fill up fast so register right now! It is on a Saturday at Microsoft's office

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    Paul Lockwood
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nowhere

Bit of fun here: last week I headed to North Carolina and Deal's Gap, aka Tail of the Dragon as I was sick of hearing friends talk about how great it was. 318

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    Paul Lockwood
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Technology

Google Reader - Gears and List View

Shawn (the ADO Guy) pointed me to Google Reader last Summer and that spelled the end of my Blog Lines use. Both are web based readers, and ideal for reading RSS feeds at

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    Paul Lockwood
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Technology

Microsoft Architecture Journal

Why was I not aware of this? It is a free quarterly print/web publication, after scanning the back issues it looks more useful than the MSDN Magazine is lately: Sign up here:

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    Paul Lockwood
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Development (General)

Reflections on five years NUnit experience

It has been five years since I first used NUnit and have used it with great success on almost every project since then. This post briefly reflects the pros and cons of Automated

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    Paul Lockwood
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