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Making the Case for Markdown
The more things change, the more they stay the same. As technology and computing has evolved over the last 50 years something has remained constant. Like the guiding light of a lighthouse through the fog one format of data files has always remained a beacon of simplicity and stability no matter what the platform, no…
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Reinstall Quickly with Chocolatey
Over the past couple of months I’ve had a string of challenges with my main PC. I’ve been using this Dell XPS15 for the past few years and this winter it just decided to give up and stop working. Given that it was out of warranty, I had to ship it off to Dell to…
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Man in Motion
For Canadians of a certain age — and I’m certainly showing mine — the words ‘Man in Motion’ likely conjure up only one thing: Rick Hansen’s Man in Motion World Tour from the 1980s. In an effort to raise money for spinal cord research and general accessibility for those with mobility challenges, Hansen embarked on…
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Career Lessons – No Isn’t Bad
Something that most of us need to do in our careers, particularly if you work on a team or in a larger workplace is to actually work with other people. Sometimes that’s with your immediate peers, and sometimes that can mean reaching out across the organization to get some information or have someone complete a…
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WordPress from the Command Line
I’m going to try to start treating the blog as documentation for myself, and hopefully it will be useful for someone else at some point. So here we go. The Background Having just migrated back to WordPress I’m always looking for ways to make changes or optimizations to the workflow. Given this is for a…