November 2007
4 posts
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Building a Windows Home Server
Around September, Kami and I decided we would dedicate some money to replacing our dying backup server. It was nothing fancy, just a simple box that backed up important stuff via FolderShare and provided access to our printer. With the impending release of Windows Home Server it made a lot of sense to just wait a bit and setup a new box with that for backup, printer sharing, and away-from-home...
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Why Keyboard Shortcuts Don't Matter
So, my last post was all about how I’m trying to become more productive by learning a set of keyboard shortcuts that I can use for faster text/code editing. In this post, I’m going to argue against the premise that it could actually make you faster. The reasons I’ll outline include opportunity costs, lack of portability, anything else? Well, we’ll see, won’t we....
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Visual Studio keyboard bindings and text editor...
I recently started experimenting with emacs on the many suggestions of Steve Yegge. Unfortunately, just getting up to speed in emacs (i.e. working as quickly as I do in Visual Studio or even vim) was taking a long time and when time is short, as it is during milestone development here at Microsoft, that’s not the best way to spend it. So I’m putting off that experiment until work slows...
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Time for a new phone
It’s time to buy a new phone. One of the cool benefits at Microsoft is discounts on phones and phone plans from most major carriers. So when my contract is up I go back to the discount web site to see what the latest deals are and if I should get a new phone. My current phone is a T-Mobile SDA that is falling apart because I dropped it when running across a parking lot in the rain....