Production Debugging talk at Code Camp Philly

October 10, 2010

Thanks to everyone who attended my talk on Production Debugging. You can now download my slides and code samples from the talk. I have listed some questions and answers from the talk at the bottom. Production Debugging at Code Camp Philly View more presentations from blytt. Where can I get Reflector? It is a free [...]

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Multiple Monitor/Screen Information Example

March 20, 2010

Microsoft made it very simple to get information about the displays available to Windows with the Screen class in Windows Forms. Using this class you can identify the primary screen, and get properties like size from any display device. For anyone developing an application which supports multiple monitors the Screen.Bounds property may be useful in [...]

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Looking forward to PyCon 2010!

February 17, 2010

On Thursday I’m making the yearly pilgrimage to PyCon in Atlanta. This will be my third year and I’m sure it’ll be better than ever. For me the real highlights of this conference are the legendary open space sessions. The level of interaction and learning at these really sets it apart from other conferences. Last [...]

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Twitter to blog script

May 24, 2009

Based on an example provided with the Twitter library for Python I cobbled together the following script to add my latest tweets to this site. It’s called from a cron job that I run on an occasional basis. My script linkifies hashtags and @username tokens in tweets so that you can see search results or [...]

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Keeping files in sync with Dropbox

May 23, 2009

When you use more than one computer on a daily basis, keeping files in sync between them is a constant problem. I’m familiar with tools like Subversion and Mercurial that make it relatively easy to keep code in sync between machines, but these require explicit actions that I often want to control. When it comes [...]

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Get fast computers for your developers

March 8, 2009

I’ve just been through an office move at a client site and packing it up got me thinking about the choices that companies make for their staff when it comes to computer hardware. Most users can benefit in some way from having faster computers, with bigger screens, and better input peripherals. Corporations have a tendency [...]

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