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Ramblings of the Sleepy...

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A personal blog discussing various programming, design, architecture, and computer topics with short tangents into education, teaching practices, gaming, and life in general mixed in.

• Added on: Oct 27th, 2007
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: David R. Longnecker
• Listed in: Programming Web Design
• Tags: education gaming innovation Ajax .net c#

Recent Posts

• Stop using MS Paint for your demos – Get Balsamiq Mocks!

  Posted on Wednesday November 25th, 2009 at 09:02 in hardware and software, workplace, everything else, general development

  Ever had your boss walk in and want a ‘mockup’ of a product the next day? In the past, I’d whip something up either in Visio (*cough* or Paint *cough*) and give a basic sketch of how screens and flow would work. Over the past y...

• Creating Local Git Repositories – Yeah, it’s that simple!

  Posted on Monday November 9th, 2009 at 15:19 in workplace, powershell, git, general development

  We’re in the process of evaluating several source control systems here at the office.  It’s a JOYOUS experience and I mean that… sorta.  Currently, we have a montage of files dumped into two SourceSafe repos. At this poin...

• PowerShell: Recreating SQL*Plus ‘ed’ Command

  Posted on Monday November 9th, 2009 at 14:25 in Microsoft, powershell, windows server, windows 7

  Aside from PowerShell, I spend a bit of time day-to-day in Oracle’s SQL*Plus.  I’m slowly replacing my dependency on SQL*Plus with PowerShell scripts, functions, and such, but there are some core things that it’s just easier to bring up a cons...

• PowerShell : TGIF Reminder

  Posted on Friday November 6th, 2009 at 08:01 in Microsoft, workplace, powershell, windows 7, general development

  Jeff Hicks’ TGIF post yesterday was a fun way to learn a bit of PowerShell (casting, working with dates, etc) and also add something valuable to your professional toolbelt—knowing when to go home. I tweaked the date output a bit to be m...

• PowerShell : Add Recursive Directories to PATH

  Posted on Monday October 19th, 2009 at 07:50 in Microsoft, powershell

  As I continue to go script crazy (a bit) with PowerShell, I’ve noticed that my general scripts directory has grown quite a bit and is becoming a bit unmanagable.  Being a lover of neat and tidy, I wanted to separate ‘common’ sc...

• Updated: PowerShell “Code-Cat” With Colors and Line Breaks

  Posted on Tuesday October 13th, 2009 at 13:16 in powershell, windows server, windows 7

  Motivated by Jeffery Hicks’ fun with my original “code-cat” version, I decided to fill in a few of the original updates I had floating in my head. The full code is available here via CodePaste.Net. First off, I loved the idea o...

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Thomas

I actually have a question. I am new to programming, well actually I am trying to get more into programming and just want to know what program would be best for a beginner to start with.

Posted: September 8th, 2009 | Report This Comment

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