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Trying Stream Deck From a Developer’s Perspective

July 19, 2019 Geoff Hudik

I’ve heard good things about Stream Deck in the past but since I’m not a streamer I’ve never looked into it. However it was recently heavily discounted on Amazon’s Prime Day and my curiosity got me to pull the trigger and see how I might use it more from a developer’s perspective. The following video…

A Week With the New MacBook Air

July 15, 2012June 19, 2017 Geoff Hudik

Time for a New Computer My mid-2009 MacBook Pro has been good to me as my first Mac. However after 3+ years it was showing its age with slow performance, particularly with any heavy disk access and especially running Windows. It stopped resuming from sleep quite a bit and started locking up more. I had…

CodeStock 2012 Windows Phone App

May 16, 2012June 19, 2017 Geoff Hudik

The CodeStock conference is coming up soon on June 15th in downtown Knoxville. As such I have upgraded the CodeStock 2011 Windows Phone app for this year’s conference and am pleased to announce it has been published to the marketplace. Marketplace Video Source Code Changes Over Last Year’s Version I have not had much time…

Twitter Link Shortener Annoyances

October 20, 2011June 19, 2017 Geoff Hudik

<Rant> A few minutes ago I post this tweet using the Silver Bird Chrome extension: A moment later I receive this error: So I try pasting the tweet into twitter.com and it tells me I am 5 characters over the limit though Chromed Bird showed I had 8 characters remaining: Okay so how long was…

Receipt automation with Shoeboxed, Quicken, Evernote and more

November 23, 2010June 18, 2017 Geoff Hudik

I try to be pretty organized with my finances otherwise I cannot tame the beast. This has included entering transactions into financial software (i.e. Money, Quicken), scanning and shredding receipts and bills, online bill pay, e-statements, sites like mint.com, and various other tools and techniques. While most of my transactions are personal and not business…