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Author Archives: James Thigpen
First Day at Cheezburger
First day of school. First day living alone. First day living with someone. First days are special. Each person will have many throughout their life, yet each one is unique. Today is my first day working at Cheezburger Network, and … Continue reading
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Skype Sucks for Business
I was really excited when starting my own small business to be using Skype for my telephony needs. It was really cheap, and I could get a real number and have it direct to my phone or to my computer … Continue reading
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Talking at South Sound .NET User Group
Just a reminder that I’ll be at the South Sound .NET User Group meeting on December 10th, 2009 to talk about MVP in a WinForms desktop application. Everyone talks about all the fancy new WPF stuff, but I’m really excited … Continue reading
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Testing, Django Client, and HTTP Basic Access Authentication
I was writing a test using the django client against some code that uses http basic authentication. I had to dig for hours to figure this out, so I figured I’d post my solution somewhere. def create_auth_string(username, password): import base64 … Continue reading
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Select Blocks of Text in Visual Studio
I have often wanted to be able to select blocks of text in Visual Studio like I used to willy nilly in vim, but I didn’t think it was possible… Until Yesterday! All you have to do is hold down … Continue reading
Independant Contractor – Day 1
So today was my first day working as a purely independent contractor. I had been working full time, then transitioned to full time contracting with the same company, and today I blossomed into being solely a consultant and owner of … Continue reading
Remote Pairing with Microsoft SharedView
As part of some contract work I’m doing for one of my clients, I am pairing with one of the new developers in the company to bring them up to speed on the code base. I can’t say anything new … Continue reading
Save Time and Money – Remap F1 in Visual Studio
This guy is hardly the first one to say it, but he’s right: if you want to save yourself lots of time, remap Visual Studio’s F1 key away from help. We all know the Visual Studio help system sucks hard, … Continue reading
LogoYes.Com – You Have Failed
I have a client wanting a website on a very small budget, so I recommended using logoyes.com to create the logo for the business. They are cheap, and last time I used them was relatively straightforward. Not this time. The … Continue reading
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Bing Me – Redux
So it’s been a 2 weeks since I switched Chrome’s default search engine from Google to Bing, and this is what I’ve got to say. It’s not bad, but there’s nothing there that blows my socks off. The image search … Continue reading