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[Editor's note: Peter rewrote this article after a reader pointed out he over-engineered his original solution. ("What can I say: The code worked -- I just didn't need nearly as much code as I thought ...

In July, Scott Hanselman marked his one-year anniversary as a "blue badge," the same month Bill Gates retired from day-to-day operations at Microsoft. After six years as chief software architect at ...