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What are Your 3 Wins for 2014?
"The idea of "the power of three" is a universal concept; it can be seen anywhere from religion (The Holy Trinity, Triquetra, etc.) to childhood learning ("ABC", "123") to entertainment (The Three Musk ..."
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: profession, personal development, productivity
http://dontcodetired.com/blog/post/What-are-Your-3-Wins-for-2014
2013 - Accomplishments, Failures, Learnings, and Thanks
"I started 2013 by quitting my job, and during the remainder of the year I learned a lot, made the odd mistake, and accomplished a few things. This is the obligatory end-of-year post, I hope it will in ..."
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: end of line
http://dontcodetired.com/blog/post/2013-Accomplishments-Failures-Learnings-and-Thanks
Setting Foreground and Background Colours in .NET Console Applications
In addition to doing some fun/weird/useful/annoying things in Console applications, we can also set
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: c# tips, c#, .net, console applications
http://dontcodetired.com/blog/post/Setting-Foreground-and-Background-Colours-in-NET-Console-Applications
Speech Synthesis (Text to Speech) In Windows 8.1 Store Apps
"Windows 8.1 adds the ability to perform text to speech using the Windows.Media.SpeechSynthesis namespace. As a basic example, to say “Hello World” in the default voice:var synth = new Windows.Media.Sp ..."
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: windows 8 apps, speech
http://dontcodetired.com/blog/post/Speech-Synthesis-(Text-to-Speech)-In-Windows-81-Store-Apps
Updating Your Windows 8 App to Windows 8.1: Dealing With Coloured Fonts
"With Windows 8.1, font characters (glyphs) can now contain coloured layers. In a Windows 8.0 app, this XAML:<TextBlock>$★☺☹❤✈⛱⛺⛵⚽✘✔☀⛅☕⛄❓♀♂❋❄✹</TextBlock> Will produce the following (bla ..."
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: windows 8 apps, xaml
http://dontcodetired.com/blog/post/Updating-Your-Windows-8-App-to-Windows-81-Dealing-With-Coloured-Fonts
Three Things I’ve Learned Being a Pluralsight Course Author
"Up to this point I’ve produced 7 Pluralsight courses, these are three things I learned along the way: Be Flexible with Plans In our industry, “plan the work, and work the plan” is rarely successful – ..."
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: pluralsight courses, personal development
http://dontcodetired.com/blog/post/Three-Things-Ie28099ve-Learned-Being-a-Pluralsight-Course-Author
Dear Windows Phone Back Button
"It seems that the back button is the latest hip thing to complain about with Windows Phone, with rumours about Microsoft dropping the hardware back button and then not. As a Windows Phone app develope ..."
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: windows phone
http://dontcodetired.com/blog/post/Dear-Windows-Phone-Back-Button
Finding Total Number of Windows Store Downloads on the Dev Center Dashboard Page
"Just hacked this JavaScript together to calculate the total number of downloads of Windows Store apps.var totalDownloads = 0; $("span:contains('Downloads')").siblings().each(function( index ) { ..."
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: windows store apps
http://dontcodetired.com/blog/post/Finding-Total-Number-of-Windows-Store-Downloads-on-the-Dev-Center-Dashboard-Page
Design is Not Adornment
"Sometimes design (and designers) are thought of as the people that make stuff look pretty. While aesthetics is a part of design, it’s not its sole function. Design is problem solving When aesthetic co ..."
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: design, ux
http://dontcodetired.com/blog/post/Design-is-Not-Adornment
50 Apps by Christmas: Start Screen Splitter
"This article is part of the 50 Apps by Christmas series Start Screen Splitter is a simple idea to help organise the tiles on the Windows Phone Start screen. The idea is to allow the user to create an ..."
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: windows phone apps, windows phone, 50appsbychristmas2013
http://dontcodetired.com/blog/post/50-Apps-by-Christmas-Start-Screen-Splitter
Non Short Circuiting C# Conditional Operators
Most of the time when writing C# programs we use the short-circuiting conditional operators. These o
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: c# tips, c#, .net
http://dontcodetired.com/blog/post/Non-Short-Circuiting-C-Conditional-Operators
Using C# Keywords for Variable Names
It’s possible to use C# keywords for variable names, etc. For example if we wanted a variable
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: c# tips, c#, .net
http://dontcodetired.com/blog/post/Using-C-Keywords-for-Variable-Names
Three Part Conditional Numeric Format Strings (for Positive, Negative, and Zero Numbers)
When we’re formatting numbers we can use a format string that allows us to specify a different
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: c# tips, c#, .net
http://dontcodetired.com/blog/post/Three-Part-Conditional-Numeric-Format-Strings-(for-Positive-Negative-and-Zero-Numbers)
New Pluralsight Course: C# Tips and Traps
"My latest Pluralsight course: C# Tips and Traps is now live. It’s a collection of things to: “Short-circuit your learning of C# with this smorgasbord of handy C# and .NET features.” It's sometim ..."
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: .net, c#, pluralsight courses, c# tips
http://dontcodetired.com/blog/post/New-Pluralsight-Course-C-Tips-and-Traps
Automated Testing: End to End Course
My newest Pluralsight course has just been published. We shouldn't live in fear of our code Long-ter
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: testing, tdd, nunit, moq, mocking, faking, ci, continuous integration, teamcity, watin, agile
http://dontcodetired.com/blog/post/Automated-Testing-End-to-End-Course
A Windows 8 App - From Idea to Store in 8 Hours
"I had an idea for a simple Windows Store app, so I thought I’d develop it but keep track of how long it took me and what I spent my time on. The total time spent working on the app was 8 hours and 10 ..."
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: windows 8 apps, windows 8, winrt, design
http://dontcodetired.com/blog/post/A-Windows-8-App-From-Idea-to-Store-in-8-Hours
Find a Designer for your Open Source Project
"Are you running an open source project? Need some help with your project CSS, perhaps a NuGet logo, or help with your GUI? It’s hard to find designers, so I made OS Designer Finder. If your open sour ..."
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: open source, design, ux, ui
http://dontcodetired.com/blog/post/Find-a-Designer-for-your-Open-Source-Project
Building the Right Thing with TestStack
"My newest Pluralsight course was just released today: Building the Right Thing in .NET with TestStack. TestStack is a suite of tools to help the team build better software. The super-friendly members ..."
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: pluralsight courses, teststack
http://dontcodetired.com/blog/post/Building-the-Right-Thing-with-TestStack
FeatureToggle Version 2 Released
"Version 2 of my open source feature toggling .Net library has just been released to NuGet. V2 introduces a number of breaking changes – see release notes. It also include binary Windows Store DLLs as ..."
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: open source, featuretoggle
http://dontcodetired.com/blog/post/FeatureToggle-Version-2-Released
Beyond the Compiler with ConventionTests
"We often have conventions in our code. For example all DTOs/entity/etc. classes should be in a specific namespace, or the name of certain types of class should end with a given word. Another example, ..."
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: conventiontests, teststack, c#, testing
http://dontcodetired.com/blog/post/Beyond-the-Compiler-with-ConventionTests
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