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Trello is a fantastic tool for managing your workload in one place. You can use it record your ideas and track those ideas through a process as they develop into real actions.

One of my readers has asked to show them how they can style the popup infowindow on a google map. This post gives you a basic example of this. This is notoriously tricky, but I think I have simplified it for you.

In all of the places I have worked, especially the larger companies, there has been this underlying process happening. It is called the light bulb and turd cycle. I named it that myself. Here is the explanation so you know what to look out for and what stage your company or department is at.

This post gives you a list of the of the best sites for getting free stock images. Within the sites, almost all of the photographs are free from copyright restriction and are licensed under creative commons public domain dedication (CC0 1.0).

For the last few years I have been listening to some great podcasts and I wanted to share them with you:

I'm not one for using my mouse if I can help it. I like to use keyboard shortcuts where possible. In this post I share with you my favourite Visual Studio keyboard shortcuts.

I recently found this free online tool called dotnetfiddle. It was inspired by jsfiddle. It allows you to write, test and share .NET code in your browser.

Over the years, I have heard both sides of the argument about whether you should or shouldn't write comments in your code. In this post, I make my argument as to why I think you should avoid writing comments in your code.

This post shows you how to find the hidden dinosaur game in Google Chrome, without having to turn off or disconnect your internet.

Here are my 10 tips for being outstanding in an interview.

If you have a favourite site that you like to search on, or want to use a different search engine this tool will help you set up quick searching on them using Google Chrome.

Over the years, I have had many interactions with recruitment agents. In fact, I got my last 2 programming jobs thanks to the help of recruitment agents. This post shares with you what I have learned about recruiters, what to look out for and how you can get the best from them.