2008 March 17 » Chinh Do

17th March 2008

Finds of The Week – March 16, 2008

Good productivity tips from Matt Moore: 10 Ways to Improve Your Programming Productivity – Matt Moore.
Dejan Cancarevic has put together a list of Most used CSS tricks.
Here’s a good article to send to your manager the next timeyour project runs late: Good Software Takes Ten Years. Get Used To it. By Joel Spolsky.
Getting LINQ to SQL and LINQ to Entities to use NOLOCK. By Scott Hanselman.
After all these years looking at Process and Thread IDs, I have no idea that they are multiples of four on Windows NT based OS’es. Raymond Chen (he Old New Thing) explained the history behind this fascinating fact.
José M. Aguilar has put together a very sensible list of 13 Tips to Comment Your Code. Translated and republished in English by Timm Martin.

Tame Your Software Dependencies for More Flexible Apps. James Kovacs, MSDN Magazine.
Want to become an expert in WCF? Just read these links: Windows Communication Foundation – 65 Links to make you an expert! By Joe Stager.
WCF Tips and Gotchas from Neudesic Teams. By Sam Gentile.
Amit discussed a frequent source of memory leaks in managed code: events.
Log a screenshot with your error: Creating screenshot with C#.
if … else if … else if … else … : an alternative. By Philippe Leybaert.
John Papa wrote a nice introduction to Standard Query Operators with LINQ. Via MSDN Magazine.
WCF – Recommended Settings for Tracing and Message Logging. MSDN.
Enabling Performance Counters in WCF. By Nicolas Allen.
Introduction to C# Anonymous Methods. By Patrick Smacchia.
Did you know that .NET Framework 3.5 have 98 assemblies, 309 namespaces, and 11417 types? Read more: Number of Types in the .NET Framework. By Brad Adams.

Seanwin has put together a very nice list of 10 Killer Firefox Extensions That You Probably Don’t Know About.
TIP – You can launch processes on remote Windows machines using Sysinternals’ Psexec.
TIP – Change your Windows desktop DPI/font size to make text more readable.
TIP – You can change the View Source Editor in Internet Explorer. Notepad++ works for me. Thanks to Tim (a colleague of mine at work) for pointing this out.

I got myself a ThinkPad X60 Tablet PC last week, so naturally I’m writing this article on it . The Tablet PC Team Blog is a good starting location to look for Tablet PC tips. The combination of a Tablet PC and Microsoft OneNote is very nice. I am surprised at how good the text recognition engine engine in Windows Vista is.

For musicians: celemony’s Direct Note Access technology can extract and move individual notes inside audio chords. Very cool stuff. I feel like installing my old copy of Cakewalk Sonar and start making some music again. Via .NET devHammer.