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Guild Wars 2 Super Adventure Box Gamepad (Xpadder) Profile

by bradgearon
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| Gaming, Guild Wars 2
April 2, 2013

I got an email yesterday, didn’t believe it for a second – regarding a so called super adventure box in Guild Wars 2. The email detailed so retro looking minecraft-esque “levels” and negated falling damage. After a bit of googling I started to believe it was real… So I logged...
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Links are fixed!

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| Uncategorized
December 3, 2012

Pardon the issues, I recently moved this blog to Azure. Please comment if you have any difficulties with downloads and thanks for visiting!
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Steam Big Picture is Awesome

by bradgearon
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| Uncategorized
September 16, 2012

I enabled steam beta client updates, downloaded and restarted steam and was presented with this big piece of awesomeness… Now you can actually use Steam on your media center.
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Windows 8 RTM Available NOW! Is it worth your while?

by bradgearon
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| Windows
August 15, 2012

In a word, yes. You should give it an honest shot. It really is a great OS. Very very fast, somewhat easy to use, stable as all hell. But a bit odd at times. Seems like they need a UX service pack or something. Perhaps the RTM will get rid...
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Enhance your Windows cmd line

by bradgearon
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| Development
July 14, 2012

For whatever reason I never knew this existed… http://chocolatey.org One of the coolest tools I’ve seen in a while. You can even install chunknorris with it! Also just about everything I mentioned on my Windows dev essentials post. Grab nuget while you are at it.
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Fix Bricked or Bad Flash Motherboard BIOS Update

by bradgearon
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| Hardware
May 28, 2012

Not sure how safe this would be if you put the chip in backwards, incorrectly, or its a different package. Do this at your own risk without any recommendation from me – who it worked for… Two boards, one chip. The ASUS board has bad firmware from a power loss...
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Windows (esp Android) development essentials

by bradgearon
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| Uncategorized
May 27, 2012

I’m starting small with this post. I’ll take feedback and check out alternatives but here are some pieces I find absolutely essential in writing code on Windows, especially where Android is concerned: C#. Java and Objective C are both garbage collected by delegates, dynamics, lambda and linq expressions. Not to...
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Branches .Net Android Game Loader

by bradgearon
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| Branches, Gaming
April 1, 2012

Update: 9/7/2012 9:00 PM Update Soon with support for They Bleed Pixels On top of all that great news below, I’ve added a new game to the loader: They Bleed Pixels. As with Terraria, you need the original game to play it and my update (once I release it). Buy it...
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SQL Server Management Studio 2012 Color Theme Extension Support

by bradgearon
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| Development, SQL
March 19, 2012

I’m a big fan of the new SQL Server Management Studio… Not so much a fan of the fact it doesn’t support themes as Visual Studio or have the well put together interface for extensions that Visual Studio does. I mean – it uses the shell.. why not? Either way,...
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Regex (regular expression) SQL Server Insert Statements To Add If Not Exists

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| Development, SQL
March 5, 2012

If you’re like me and stuck managing a giant database along with version upgrades this may come in handy. I’m posting about it mostly for my own good though. Regardless feel free to make it better and comment with the complete regex (ie adding optional groups or INTO and or...
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