Ideas and Coffee at 3.47 AM

Most interesting short cut keys on Visual Studio 2008:

I was booting up my machine. I had just logged in and all the apps were firing up one by one. So I must have fired up something and might be typing into it, when Google Talk fired up in between. So everything that I had just written went into the google talk sign in textbox.

Sarang just posted on his blog about this post. And it really impressed me. So I thought it has to be mentioned about on my blog too. I specially like the part where he says that Google's idea of business is to amuse and attract people. And that most of Google's product promote wasted online time.

You go to Team Explorer bar and double click on "Source Control". This fires up the Source Control Explorer. Now you double click a few thousand times to reach the directory that you wanted to reach and you do something that you couldn't have perhaps done from outside the Source Control Explorer, like a file check out perhaps. Now you want to do something with that file which perhaps you can't do from inside the source control explorer like copy pasting some other files in and out of this directory, perhaps. So basically you require the location of the file that you just checked out. so you see this:

http://blog.pmarca.com/2008/04/if-microsoft-go.html

I want to write a select query that returns all the data in a table? this is how it would go:

So what do you feel like when you first board the mother ship. Death...! yeah... for someone who has been growing and dreaming and aiming high all his life (only such a person usually boards the mother ship)... where do you go once you join Microsoft...

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;329291