Leap Motion

This is a really cool motion tracking tool.  At $70 a pop, I think this might save the PC:

Take a few minutes and watch this video.

http://leapmotion.com/

Paving My Computer - Love NiNite

I had to install all of my tools on my desktop and a new laptop. I did it in this order:
Windows Update (900MB of updates)
Visual Studio 2010 (I removed the SQL Server 2008 Express instance from the custom screen.)
VS 2010 SP1
Web Platform Installer (to get MVC and all the other stuff)
SQL Server 2012 Developer Edition
Resharper
Telerik

And then I used NiNite to install a TON OF SOFTWARE in about 5 minutes. It installed:
Skype
Hulu
WinDirStat
VLC
VNC
DropBox
Evernote
Tortoise
WinMerge
7Zip
Chrome
FireFox
NotePad++
 Eclipse

 Anyway, NiNite is freakin’ cool. Hope you find it as useful as I did.

http://www.ninite.com

Nerd Question of the Day #4

Who introduced REST to the world and what does REST stand for?

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Roy Fielding. Representational State Transfer Wikipedia Article

Nerd Question of the Day #3

What is a Portable Class Library (new in .NET 4.5)?

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The Portable Class Library project in Visual Studio 2012 RC enables you to write and build managed assemblies that work on multiple .NET Framework platforms. Using a Portable Class Library project, you choose the platforms (such as Windows Phone and .NET for Metro style apps) to target. The available types and members in your project are automatically restricted to the common types and members across these platforms. MSDN Article

Nerd Question of the Day #2

What are the four actions in HTTP?

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Get, Post, Put, Delete

Nerd Question of the Day #1

In SQL Azure, how many physical servers handle a single logical database? What are their roles?

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3. One primary and two secondaries.

Why I Don't Use Facebook

Found this in this thread on Reddit:

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