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.NET (48)
Date
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2010-03-08
Create an Excel 2007 VSTO add-in: display open worksheets in a TreeView
1
None
2010-03-02
Create an Excel 2007 VSTO add-in: adding a WPF control
3
None
2010-02-16
Create an Excel 2007 VSTO add-in: Custom Task Pane
1
None
2010-02-12
Create a Excel 2007 VSTO add-in: getting started
4
None
2010-01-31
Introducing NorCal Weekly .Net
2
None
2010-01-27
Mocking multiple calls, ignoring arguments
0
None
2010-01-23
On the road from C# to F# (2)
0
None
2009-12-12
Read Excel VBA macros and functions through C#
16
None
2009-10-20
Read the contents of a worksheet with C#
2
5
2009-10-15
The Art of Unit Testing
4
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2009-10-12
VSTO add-in with multiple assemblies
2
None
2009-10-06
I survived another SVCC iteration
0
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2009-09-18
Bugs hiding in plain sight
0
None
2009-09-07
One month to Silicon Valley Code Camp!
1
None
2009-08-20
Create an Excel Line – Column combination chart in C#, revisited
2
3
2009-08-09
W00t! Win 7 includes .NET 3.5 SP1
0
None
2009-08-03
Create Excel Line - Column Chart from C#
4
None
2009-08-01
Prototype your app with Sketchflow
2
None
2009-07-24
No Tolerance for NUnit Data-Driven tests?
0
None
2009-06-24
San Francisco .NET user group
0
None
2009-06-08
Dude, where is my log?
0
None
2009-05-27
#warning: the power of in-your-face
0
None
2009-05-17
Data driven tests with NUnit 2.5
1
4
2009-05-10
Testing for exceptions with NUnit 2.5
0
4.5
2009-04-16
Don’t reinvent the wheel
0
None
2009-04-09
Your best friend, "record macro"?
0
5
2009-04-06
Manipulating Excel embedded charts
3
None
2009-03-30
“Blue Lobster” version 0.1.0
1
1
2009-03-26
Give me 5 Lbs of VSTO
0
5
2009-03-15
The curious case of the non-random Random()
0
None
2009-03-05
Proper etiquette for var
2
None
2009-02-22
Selecting an item in a list with WPF and M-V-VM
0
None
2009-02-03
Full house at Karl Shifflett's education day
1
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2009-01-13
Best-of the PDC comes to San Francisco
0
None
2009-01-10
Education Day: Creating WPF Line of Business Applications (M-V-VM) Using C# and VB.NET
0
None
2009-01-05
A case of identity
0
None
2008-12-11
Excel extensions with VSTO power tools
1
3.3
2008-11-17
VSTO vs. VBA performance comparison
0
None
2008-11-16
Adding a sub-menu in an Excel add-in
3
None
2008-11-13
VSTO session: code sample
0
5
2008-11-11
TDD session: code and slides
0
None
2008-10-26
Installing a VSTO add-in on a .NET 2.0 machine
0
None
2008-10-18
Silicon Valley Code Camp 2008 is coming up!
0
None
2008-09-04
Converting Excel date format to System.DateTime
1
5
2008-08-28
VSTO Add-In installation woes
8
4
2008-08-11
Build a NET 3.5 Application in One Day!
1
None
2008-07-02
Excel VSTO add-in menu manager
7
4.5
2008-06-24
Implicit
0
4
.Net Community (2)
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Title
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2010-01-31
Introducing NorCal Weekly .Net
2
None
2010-01-09
Mocks at the North Bay .Net User Group
1
None
Akin (4)
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Title
Comments
Rating
2009-12-12
Read Excel VBA macros and functions through C#
16
None
2009-10-03
Akin 0.5.0 released
3
None
2009-09-29
Movement is relative
1
None
2009-08-09
W00t! Win 7 includes .NET 3.5 SP1
0
None
Algorithms (1)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2010-01-16
Longest Common Subsequence in F#
3
5
BlogEngine.NET (6)
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Title
Comments
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2010-01-03
Maintenance interruptions
0
None
2009-07-31
Upgraded BlogEngine
3
None
2009-04-04
Moderate unapproved comments with Commentor
0
None
2008-12-02
Using Windows Live Writer
1
None
2008-11-25
Upgraded to BlogEngine.Net 1.4.5
0
None
2008-06-27
Social bookmarking extension
5
4
C# (3)
Date
Title
Comments
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2010-02-22
Create an Excel 2007 VSTO add-in: the Ribbon
1
None
2010-02-16
Create an Excel 2007 VSTO add-in: Custom Task Pane
1
None
2010-01-23
On the road from C# to F# (2)
0
None
Decision analysis (8)
Date
Title
Comments
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2009-12-08
Priceless
0
None
2009-06-28
The Drunkard’s Walk
0
None
2009-06-14
Sway
0
None
2008-12-07
Collectively deciding between alternatives
0
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2008-07-21
Decision trouble
0
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2008-06-21
A code of conduct for business ethics
0
None
2008-06-02
The culture of decision trees
0
None
2008-04-02
Are you more Chimp or Bonobo?
1
None
Design and Patterns (13)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2010-01-23
On the road from C# to F# (2)
0
None
2009-12-01
Sometimes, TDD doesn’t flow
0
None
2009-10-15
The Art of Unit Testing
4
None
2009-10-10
Duct tape post-mortem
0
None
2009-10-06
I survived another SVCC iteration
0
None
2009-09-29
Movement is relative
1
None
2009-09-07
One month to Silicon Valley Code Camp!
1
None
2009-07-07
Regularity, cohesion, balance
0
None
2009-06-30
Illustrative Programming
0
None
2009-05-17
Data driven tests with NUnit 2.5
1
4
2009-02-22
Selecting an item in a list with WPF and M-V-VM
0
None
2009-02-08
Joel doesn't like SOLID
0
None
2008-07-02
Excel VSTO add-in menu manager
7
4.5
Economics (5)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2009-12-08
Priceless
0
None
2009-06-14
Sway
0
None
2008-12-13
Diversification and correlation
0
None
2008-10-19
Free trade
0
None
2008-10-12
Prediction markets manipulation
0
None
Excel (37)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2010-03-08
Create an Excel 2007 VSTO add-in: display open worksheets in a TreeView
1
None
2010-03-02
Create an Excel 2007 VSTO add-in: adding a WPF control
3
None
2010-02-22
Create an Excel 2007 VSTO add-in: the Ribbon
1
None
2010-02-16
Create an Excel 2007 VSTO add-in: Custom Task Pane
1
None
2010-02-12
Create a Excel 2007 VSTO add-in: getting started
4
None
2010-02-06
Recalculate cells before reading from a worksheet
2
None
2010-02-03
Warning: ambiguous method call in VSTO
0
None
2009-12-12
Read Excel VBA macros and functions through C#
16
None
2009-10-29
Excel ScatterPlot with labels, colors and markers
0
4
2009-10-20
Read the contents of a worksheet with C#
2
5
2009-10-12
VSTO add-in with multiple assemblies
2
None
2009-10-03
Akin 0.5.0 released
3
None
2009-09-03
More What-If analysis with Excel Data Table
2
None
2009-08-28
Find an optimal solution with Excel Data Table
3
None
2009-08-20
Create an Excel Line – Column combination chart in C#, revisited
2
3
2009-08-17
Darling, I shrunk the workbook
0
None
2009-08-03
Create Excel Line - Column Chart from C#
4
None
2009-07-29
Excel Goal Seek: Caution
2
4
2009-06-30
Illustrative Programming
0
None
2009-04-09
Your best friend, "record macro"?
0
5
2009-04-06
Manipulating Excel embedded charts
3
None
2009-03-30
“Blue Lobster” version 0.1.0
1
1
2009-03-26
Give me 5 Lbs of VSTO
0
5
2009-01-06
The Last Cell in an Excel Worksheet
1
3.7
2008-12-11
Excel extensions with VSTO power tools
1
3.3
2008-12-04
Shortest path with the Excel solver
1
4.5
2008-11-17
VSTO vs. VBA performance comparison
0
None
2008-11-16
Adding a sub-menu in an Excel add-in
3
None
2008-11-13
VSTO session: code sample
0
5
2008-10-26
Installing a VSTO add-in on a .NET 2.0 machine
0
None
2008-10-18
Silicon Valley Code Camp 2008 is coming up!
0
None
2008-09-04
Converting Excel date format to System.DateTime
1
5
2008-08-28
VSTO Add-In installation woes
8
4
2008-07-13
Harmonic average function
1
None
2008-07-02
Excel VSTO add-in menu manager
7
4.5
2008-06-08
S-shaped market adoption curve
18
5
2008-04-22
Excel, named ranges and INDIRECT()
1
None
F# (3)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2010-01-23
On the road from C# to F# (2)
0
None
2010-01-16
Longest Common Subsequence in F#
3
5
2009-12-24
On the road from C# to F#
1
5
Management (8)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2009-12-31
year++
0
None
2009-07-14
Dysfunctional team
0
4.7
2009-04-14
In the beginning was the Word
0
None
2009-01-26
Owning Up To It 2.0
0
None
2008-09-23
Gauging the potential of Chrome using the Bass model (part 1)
6
5
2008-06-21
A code of conduct for business ethics
0
None
2008-05-20
Start-up junkies
0
None
2008-01-25
Management, the Gordon Ramsay way
0
None
Math (8)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2010-01-14
Fun with queues, 2
0
None
2009-09-20
The PuzzlOR
0
None
2009-09-18
Bugs hiding in plain sight
0
None
2009-09-03
More What-If analysis with Excel Data Table
2
None
2009-08-08
Euler Problem 205
3
None
2009-06-28
The Drunkard’s Walk
0
None
2009-06-18
It takes one to know one
0
None
2009-06-01
Ars Mathematica
2
None
News (24)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2010-01-31
Introducing NorCal Weekly .Net
2
None
2010-01-09
Mocks at the North Bay .Net User Group
1
None
2010-01-03
Maintenance interruptions
0
None
2009-12-31
year++
0
None
2009-10-03
Akin 0.5.0 released
3
None
2009-09-07
One month to Silicon Valley Code Camp!
1
None
2009-07-31
Upgraded BlogEngine
3
None
2009-06-24
San Francisco .NET user group
0
None
2009-05-14
Live Messenger Hackathon
0
None
2009-04-30
Website spring clean-up
0
None
2009-04-14
In the beginning was the Word
0
None
2009-04-05
The EnergyNet, and why you should care
0
None
2009-04-03
WPF for LOB tour
0
None
2009-03-30
“Blue Lobster” version 0.1.0
1
1
2009-03-12
Big bad new computer
0
None
2009-02-03
Full house at Karl Shifflett's education day
1
None
2009-01-13
Best-of the PDC comes to San Francisco
0
None
2009-01-10
Education Day: Creating WPF Line of Business Applications (M-V-VM) Using C# and VB.NET
0
None
2008-10-18
Silicon Valley Code Camp 2008 is coming up!
0
None
2008-08-11
Build a NET 3.5 Application in One Day!
1
None
2008-07-05
Good news for bay area developers
0
None
2008-04-15
Switching to BlogEngine.Net
0
4
2008-01-26
SharePoint for Developers education day
0
None
2007-10-22
Silicon Valley Code Camp 2007
0
None
NorCal .Net Weekly (0)
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Title
Comments
Rating
quantitative modeling (19)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2010-01-14
Fun with queues, 2
0
None
2010-01-07
Fun with queues
1
None
2009-12-01
Sometimes, TDD doesn’t flow
0
None
2009-09-20
The PuzzlOR
0
None
2009-09-03
More What-If analysis with Excel Data Table
2
None
2009-08-28
Find an optimal solution with Excel Data Table
3
None
2009-07-29
Excel Goal Seek: Caution
2
4
2009-06-28
The Drunkard’s Walk
0
None
2009-04-25
Alice in visualization land
0
None
2009-04-09
10 most influential algorithms
0
None
2009-03-09
Correlation and causation
0
None
2008-12-04
Shortest path with the Excel solver
1
4.5
2008-10-01
Gauging the potential of Chrome using the Bass model (part 2)
0
None
2008-09-23
Gauging the potential of Chrome using the Bass model (part 1)
6
5
2008-09-16
Gini, Pareto and fairness
0
None
2008-07-13
Harmonic average function
1
None
2008-07-07
My S-shaped market introduction curve goes interactive!
0
None
2008-06-08
S-shaped market adoption curve
18
5
2008-05-16
Order without design
0
None
Random (6)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2010-01-04
Epic workspace
1
None
2009-07-14
Dysfunctional team
0
4.7
2009-04-28
Times a-changin'
0
None
2008-09-07
Schizophrenic user interface
0
None
2008-06-21
A large post
0
None
2008-02-06
Geeks have feelings, too
0
None
Reviews (4)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2010-02-21
Coders at Work
2
None
2009-10-15
The Art of Unit Testing
4
None
2009-06-28
The Drunkard’s Walk
0
None
2009-06-14
Sway
0
None
Software development (24)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2009-10-15
The Art of Unit Testing
4
None
2009-10-10
Duct tape post-mortem
0
None
2009-10-06
I survived another SVCC iteration
0
None
2009-09-29
Movement is relative
1
None
2009-09-07
One month to Silicon Valley Code Camp!
1
None
2009-08-01
Prototype your app with Sketchflow
2
None
2009-07-24
No Tolerance for NUnit Data-Driven tests?
0
None
2009-06-30
Illustrative Programming
0
None
2009-06-08
Dude, where is my log?
0
None
2009-05-27
#warning: the power of in-your-face
0
None
2009-05-17
Data driven tests with NUnit 2.5
1
4
2009-05-10
Testing for exceptions with NUnit 2.5
0
4.5
2009-04-16
Don’t reinvent the wheel
0
None
2009-04-09
Your best friend, "record macro"?
0
5
2009-03-30
“Blue Lobster” version 0.1.0
1
1
2009-03-26
Give me 5 Lbs of VSTO
0
5
2009-03-15
The curious case of the non-random Random()
0
None
2009-02-22
Selecting an item in a list with WPF and M-V-VM
0
None
2009-02-08
Joel doesn't like SOLID
0
None
2009-01-05
A case of identity
0
None
2008-08-11
Build a NET 3.5 Application in One Day!
1
None
2008-06-24
Implicit
0
4
2007-11-02
An introduction to Test-Driven Development
0
5
2007-10-22
Silicon Valley Code Camp 2007
0
None
Technology (6)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2009-04-28
Times a-changin'
0
None
2009-04-14
Mini Me
1
None
2009-04-05
The EnergyNet, and why you should care
0
None
2009-01-26
Owning Up To It 2.0
0
None
2008-12-02
Using Windows Live Writer
1
None
2008-09-26
One Word to bring them all (and in the darkness bind them)
0
None
Testing (1)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2010-01-27
Mocking multiple calls, ignoring arguments
0
None
VSTO (7)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2010-03-08
Create an Excel 2007 VSTO add-in: display open worksheets in a TreeView
1
None
2010-03-02
Create an Excel 2007 VSTO add-in: adding a WPF control
3
None
2010-02-22
Create an Excel 2007 VSTO add-in: the Ribbon
1
None
2010-02-16
Create an Excel 2007 VSTO add-in: Custom Task Pane
1
None
2010-02-12
Create a Excel 2007 VSTO add-in: getting started
4
None
2010-02-06
Recalculate cells before reading from a worksheet
2
None
2010-02-03
Warning: ambiguous method call in VSTO
0
None
Web Development (1)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2009-11-06
Two level horizontal menu for ASP.NET
1
5
Uncategorized (5)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2010-01-18
NorCal .Net Weekly #1
0
None
2008-03-09
Keynotes at SD West 08
0
None
2008-02-25
SD West next week
0
None
2007-12-02
First steps in Silverlight
0
None
2007-09-23
Officially open for business!
0
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5th installment of my VSTO walk-through. This is turning into a monster - writing a full tutorial is a LOT of work!
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