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Chris W. Rea

Toronto, Canada

pragmaticmoney.ca

Age: 38

Husband, dad, computer geek, and software craftsman with 15+ years pro experience. Interests: technology, startups, personal finance, investing, personal productivity, music.

I'm a moderator at money.stackexchange.com, the Stack Exchange site for personal finance.

See also:
My Twitter profile: twitter.com/cwrea
My LinkedIn profile: www.linkedin.com/in/chriswrea

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The Definitive C++ Book Guide and List

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Git for beginners: The definitive practical guide

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Looking for a better JavaScript unit test tool

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What good technology podcasts are out there?

podcast Jan 20 '11 at 7:33 Michael Stum

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Best way to use Google's hosted jQuery, but fall back to my hosted library on Google fail

jquery google cloud Apr 3 at 2:21 dtbarne

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Using Git and Dropbox together effectively?

git dropbox Mar 8 at 17:22 Peter Mortensen

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jQuery Tips and Tricks

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Git ignore file for Xcode projects

xcode git osx version-control gitignore May 5 at 18:03 Hagelin

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performSelector may cause a leak because its selector is unknown

iphone objective-c ios automatic-ref-counting May 15 at 5:21 Divyu

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NUnit vs Visual Studio 2008's Test Projects for Unit Testing?

c# asp.net-mvc visual-studio-2008 unit-testing nunit Oct 21 '11 at 13:13 David Sykes

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What tool do you use to monitor your servers?

monitoring tools server-management Nov 14 '11 at 18:17 Miles Erickson

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What requests do browsers' “F5” and “Ctrl + F5” refreshes generate?

http browser caching cross-browser refresh Jul 5 '12 at 16:50 saua

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Which OS X Applications do you find indispensable?

osx software-recommendation Mar 28 at 11:47 Ingmar Hupp

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.NET “must-have” development tools

.net devtools May 25 '12 at 8:41 nzpcmad

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Applications are expected to have a root view controller at the end of application launch

iphone objective-c ios cocoa-touch May 16 at 21:56 LearnCocos2D

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Xcode 4 - “Valid signing identity not found” error on provisioning profiles on a new Macintosh install

iphone xcode certificate keychain provisioning-profile Mar 29 at 15:46 Steve Liddle

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How to control Windows 7 snap feature with two monitors?

windows-7 multiple-monitors Feb 13 at 15:30 Oliver Salzburg

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Can I legally incorporate GPL & LGPL, open-sourced software in a proprietary, closed-source project?

open-source licensing gpl lgpl closed-source Jun 14 '12 at 18:02 Harleqin

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What's the difference between faking, mocking, and stubbing?

unit-testing mocking terminology definition stub Feb 23 at 9:11 tvanfosson

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What programming practice that you once liked have you since changed your mind about?

language-agnostic Sep 20 '11 at 20:13 Richard Fantozzi

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Posting and answering questions you have already found the answer to

discussion etiquette self-answer instant-self-answer Mar 16 at 12:11 gnat

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Now that Microsoft Money is going away, what are the best competitive options?

software-rec finance microsoft-money Jun 12 '12 at 9:44 meetpd

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Why does Apple recommend to use dispatch_once for implementing the singleton pattern under ARC?

iphone objective-c ios singleton automatic-ref-counting Nov 14 '12 at 7:15 Jonathan Leffler

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gitignore file syntax

git gitignore Mar 12 at 16:17 Adam Tolley

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“This file came from another computer…” - how can I unblock all the files in a folder without having to unblock them individually?

windows security ntfs Mar 24 at 21:40 Indrek

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How do I set up SSH so I don't have to type my password?

unix ssh Mar 19 at 14:39 grawity

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Why did Git get so much hype? …while others don't?

version-control git mercurial Jul 29 '11 at 21:22 Apophenia Overload

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Is there anyway to stop Windows 8 from restarting for an update?

windows-8 updates Feb 17 at 23:03 Ray

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How to create JSON string in C#

c# asp.net json Nov 1 '12 at 8:48 Subtle Fox

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Boot and Install Windows from a USB thumb drive

windows install usb-flash-drive thumbdrive Feb 7 at 15:59 Community

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