Web 2.0 (yes I am one of those who hate the name) has great technological promise and may actually come to fruition. Its most promising aspect IMHO is its integration with social computing. Howevr not many people have been able to clearly articulate what it is. Here are a couple of good articles on the subject.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Hinchcliffe/index.php?p=21
http://web2.wsj2.com/the_state_of_web_20.htm
Thinking about buying a dula monitor rig... Here some good info on increased productivity from dual monitors and software to extend your taskbar (it doesnt by default... you need extra stuff).
Taskbar Extender Free*
NY Times article on productivity benes
I really believe that the way you percieve your world affects the way it percieves you. In other words, if you think things will go your way they generally will. The trick is to really believe. Steve Pavlina has an interesting article on his blog that talks about turning negative thoughts into positive ones.
He uses an image morphing method -- basically turn the negative thought into a silly, bright, animated image that represents the negative thought. Secondly create an image (similarly silly, bright and animated) that represents a positive thought. Finally morph the negative image into the positive one. Below is a link to Steve's orginal article. Theres other interesting stuff there if you are into this.
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/04/how-to-squash-negative-thought-patterns/
This courtesy of Dave at blogs.msdn
Here's a neat little trick which a lot of people don't seem to know about.
The information provided on the Visual Studio 2005 start page comes from the MSDN Visual Studio 2005 RSS feed. It turns out that the RSS source is configurable:
- Go to Tools->Options
- Select Environment/Startup
- Change "Start Page News Channel" to point to your favorite developer related RSS feed.
While I'd like to suggest http://blogs.msdn.com/federaldev/rss.aspx, you might want to check out http://msdn.microsoft.com/aboutmsdn/rss/ for a good list of alternatives. In case you decide that you want to go back to the orignal feed, just change the "Start Page News Channel" back to http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=35587&clcid=0x409
Web projects in VS 2005 are better, but once again MS has changed stuff. Ultimately for the good of development, but the transistion will be tough. There are some good resources online for project conversion and MS just released a tool to help.
http://webproject.scottgu.com/
and the add-in tool HERE
Upgraded to VS2005 "officially" today. I have played with it on other machines, but today I upgraded my primary development machine. I have been tinkering with it and the CLR Profiler... all said, nice stuff. Here is a link to using the profiler with the built in VS 2005 webserver and a snippet from this blog after the jump
http://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/archive/2005/12/11/2611.aspx
I was involved with a project a few years back that sought to match angel investors with young start-up companies. It was an interesting and enjoyable experience. Part of that process involved helping companies with thier executive summaries and business plans. Here is a good blog from Guy Kawasaki (www.garage.com) that covers the finer points of executive summary writing.
I have been working on a project that requires files to be uploaded to a Web server. No big deal... ordinarily. However this project is .Net. As a result the most obvious and simple implementation requires the entire contents of the file to be moved into memory. This is due to the architecture of IIS. IIS 6.0 deals with this a little better when run in isolation mode. However, this also has implication.
I found some good writings on this topic. It would seem that MS dealt with the download issue, but not upload. In any case the following presents a good overview of the issue. The upload issue is a tougher one to deal with. All of the implemented solutions I found use an ISAPI filter or something at that level in the architecture. Any way here are the links:
A nice overview of the problem (from the download perspective) here:
http://www.objectsharp.com/Blogs/bruce/articles/1571.aspx
A good discussion of the upload issues (with solutions) here:
http://forums.asp.net/1/55127/ShowPost.aspx#55127
MS Solutions to the problem:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/823409/EN-US/ (Download)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/295626/EN-US/ (Upload)
I snipped a bit of VB code from coderage at the asp.net forum available after the jump
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I have recently been playing with developing apps for the WM5 platform. Here is a link to a good article on how to get network connectivity in the Wm5 emulator:
http://nino.net/blogs/nino/archive/2006/01/20/WM5EmulatorInternetConnectivityWithoutActiveSync.aspx
How to be an expert.... apparently the answer is to practice. Not just repeating but how you practice. Here is a quote:
"For the superior performer the goal isn't just repeating the same thing again and again but achieving higher levels of control over every aspect of their performance. That's why they don't find practice boring. Each practice session they are working on doing something better than they did the last time."
Check out the review here:
http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2006/03/how_to_be_an_ex.html