The importance of making backups

Yesterday evening I was searching through my files on my internal hard drives to find my software/app solutions for Visual Studio. After a good search, I thought “Ah. I must have left them on my external hard drive when I upgraded to Windows 8″. So I went in search of that. Once I had found

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Programming Opinions

I was doing my daily Reddit reading before work today when I came across a post which read 20 Controversial Programming Opinions. As I was going through the list, I could probably agree with most of the answers which were to the question “What’s your most controversial programming opinion?”. The first one on the list

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Microsoft Arc Keyboard

I received this pretty swish keyboard in the post on Monday from Amazon as a gift from the Windows Phone Rewards Scheme. I didn’t get chance to develop many Windows Phone applications in this last rewards program so I didn’t get my hands on another Lumia 800 device. I did however manage to get a

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A Big Week for Microsoft

As many people will know, Microsoft unveiled it’s own Windows RT / Windows 8 tablet earlier this week. The device is called ‘Surface’ and it seems that Microsoft are aiming to compete with Apple and Google by creating their own tablet, as well as allowing for other hardware companies to create their own Windows tablets

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Get Adobe Photoshop CS6 Beta

I current use Photoshop CS5, but I intend on upgrading to the new Creative Suite when it is released. Photoshop has a lot to offer for artists, not just for photography but for drawing / digital painting too. They’ve added a few new features in the Beta and the best thing about it is that

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