The Daily Six Pack: November 15, 2013

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A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: New Domain Names The web is about to explode thanks to new domain names, Josh Benson Other Good News and Bad News for Windows Phone, Paul Thurrott Portable Class Libraries just got REALLY useful with new licensing changes, Scott Hanselman Free

The Daily Six Pack: October 31, 2013

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A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: .NET Security Security Driven .NET – A practical book for .NET security engineers, Stan Drapkin Other Controlling Skype with C#, Gabriel Szabo T-SQL Count of Tables, Views, Stored Procedures and Functions, Jason What Developers Need to Know About SQL Server, Brent

Ten Minutes With… Sean Sexton

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I had the pleasure of chatting to Sean Sexton about all things code, life and a little in between. Sean maintains an excellent blog that is well worth visiting if you are into C# or WPF. Bio Software developer in the Twin Cities area, passionate about .NET technologies. Equally passionate about my

The Daily Six Pack: August 30, 2013

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A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Snowden Doubles Tor Usage Tor usage doubles after Snowden's surveillance revelations, Tim Sampson Other 1,138 behind the scenes photos of the Star Wars Trilogy Interesting Podcasts for .NET Developers, Senthil Kumar Download .NET Universe 2013 Poster, Senthil Kumar Creator of xkcd Reveals Secret Backstory of His Epic

Getting To Grips With StyleCop

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StyleCop Code Analysis How-To is a nice read. At only 57 pages long, you can expect to work through the book in no time. I had the chance to check it out and I really enjoyed the read, not to mention learning a few things I didn't know. The book is

The Daily Six Pack: July 24, 2013

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Prosecuting Edward Snowden - The story of intrigue and spy vs spy. There is a lot to say about the subject, and no matter what your personal point of view is on the matter, he will probably be caught. Bruce Schneider writes a great article on Prosecuting Snowden. If you

The Daily Six Pack: July 10, 2013

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Visual Studio 2013 Features have certainly been in the spotlight in the past few weeks. Since the Preview has been released there have been a flurry of blog posts on some of the new shiny things that go bling in the Visual Studio 2013 features universe. Ed Blankenship brings us

The Daily Six Pack: July 2, 2013

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SkyDrive Pro for iOS, Windows 8 / RT was released by Microsoft on Friday. It looks the same as the standard mobile app, but provides a handy way to access your SkyDrive Pro-based files in Office 365, SharePoint Online, or SharePoint 2013. Speaking of Office 365, have you taken a look

The Daily Six Pack: June 21, 2013

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Xbox One, need I say more. The ridiculous restrictions imposed on it by Microsoft have finally been resolved. I wonder who even figured that imposing restrictions such as that would hold ANY water. In fact, the gamer community is stronger than any corporation. But well done to Microsoft for listening.

The Daily Six Pack: June 4, 2013

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Programming Skills are essential to every programmer out there. But there is something that no school or institution can teach you. To become better at what you do with regards to programming, you first need to learn how to become a better person. The reason for this is that you