Jack of all trades; Master of one.
Roy Osherove at ISerializable is holding a contest for the "Most Useful Add-in/Macro for Visual Studio .Net" Contest." Submissions accepted through May 31st, and there are tons of cool prizes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place plus a Bonus finisher. One of the best(!) prizes is an XDN Professional Membership from Xtras.Net. :-) Be sure …
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Matt Davey just posted about a presentation to management types where they asked the question (among others) “What major advantage does the C# language have over and above the Java language?“ My first thought was “attributes“ which allow developers to tag code with metadata that can be programmed against but I was sure there was …
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I just got back from the Visual Studio Connections conference in Orlando, Florida for a few days. I went down for a few meetings, and had a really great time. I meet Robert Green who on Monday night previewed a free set of soon to be released components called the VBPowerPack. Robert and I talked about …
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One of the things I don’t like about ASP.NET is [runat=”server”]. Why can’t we set [runat=”server”] to be the default for certain tags? After all, isn’t every tag that starts with “<asp:” run at the server? Why make me bloat code? Why put something there I might forget to type and then waste my time figuring out …
I just visited Peter Provost’s blog and saw his map (his was about the 5th I’d seen) so I finally succumbed: create your own personalized map of the USA or write about it on the open travel guide
Every developer has a set of bias that drives their development. A developer’s bias determines how they write code and what they consider is good vs. bad code. I believe there are few if any "well rounded" developers that provide equal weighting on all areas; that’s why having a team of developers with different bias …
I just had an epiphany! (So everyone, go ahead and send me 50 links that I personally have yet to run across where others have already suggested this. :) I’ve always wanted to review key numbers related to my company’s permformance on a periodic basis; i.e. each day, each week, and each month, etc. I …
I noticed Richard S. Tallent, II referenced a do-it-yourself steadcam project by Johnny Chung Lee of Carnegie Melon University, which was ironic for me as I went looking at digital camcorders today. At first I thought Johnny was making a joke, but after reading the page it looks real (great video clips shown using it.) Maybe …
Rocky Lhotka has some sobering things to say about the hype surrounding Service Oriented Architectures, or SOA. He says SOA is about crossing trust boundaries but thinks (consultants will counsel) people to use it within apps and replace their tiers with SOA concepts. This he says will cause huge problems: SOA is going to cost …
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Another item for my favorite’s list is Robert Scoble’s Corporate Weblog Manifesto.