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Hello. I am Joel Marcey, author of this personal blog.
Check out my joint venture with acclaimed programming language instructor, Rex Jaeschke, called Programming Classroom

I am also owner of Twin Roots, a consulting and software development company.

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Category Archives: Microsoft
Pirates of Silicon Valley
I just watched Pirates of Silicon Valley (again). It was originally a TNT made-for-TV movie, it came out on DVD/VHS a few years back, and apparently it is on YouTube as well. For a techy person like me, this movie was … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, Microsoft, Personal
Tagged Bill Gates, Computer History, Movies, Steve Jobs
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Goodbye Tiger, Hello Leopard
Today at 6 PM, where ever you are in the world, Apple lets yet another big cat out of its cage. Leopard, the next major Mac operating system update from Apple, will be delivered, bought and/or installed on many a Mac … Continue reading
Disabling Reply-All in Microsoft Outlook
Tip for the day from Scott Hanselman. I know I have wanted to do this at times, in addition to disabling forwarding of messages as well (which I am assuming can be done with a similar macro). Now this doesn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Microsoft, Miscellaneous, Technology
Tagged Custom Functionality, Email, Outlook
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Changing Tactics On My Approach To Starting My Business
I wrote this post yesterday. I then posted this question on the Business of Software Forum soon after. I am now changing my business planning a little bit. Initially, I was very surprised at the responses about how one should … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Career, Entrepreneurship, Microsoft
Tagged Business of Software, Micro ISV, Steps To Open For Business
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Microsoft Shares Source Code to the .NET Framework
I saw this on Scott Guthrie’s blog yesterday (I must have had a brain freeze for leaving him off my blogroll): Releasing the Source Code for the .NET Framework Libraries This is good to see. And this is great news … Continue reading
Posted in .NET, Microsoft, Technology
Tagged .NET, .NET Framework, Licensing, Microsoft, Open Source, Technology
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Marking All RSS Feeds As Read With IE7
I tried, I really tried, to use IE7 as my RSS Reader. Integrated into the browser, feeds right there. Easy. Well, one *necessary* feature is suprisingly missing: “Mark All Feeds As Read”. You have to click on each individual feed … Continue reading





