Ideas and Coffee at 3.47 AM

Another one of those referral posts... I don't like these... But I need to post this one... Just for the record...

We all know how to navigate between windows... it is Alt + Tab... and we also know how to navigate between internal files inside Studio... Ctrl + Tab... but hey... how about navigating between the tool box and the solutions explorer... or choosing one of those handy windows...

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Are you an idealist...? Do you believe in idealistic bullshit...? What is idealistic bullshit...? Do you believe in stuff like Scrum, Test Driven Development, Agile or any new concept that you think can change the software development process...? Make things easier and improve delivery...? Or are you just an old school developer who thinks delivery is hard work and discipline and more hard work... and more discipline and working late hours and weekends...

When I joined Microsoft, a very long ambition was achieved. To a certain extent I felt like there was a lack of targets. Of course there is this target to grow, in the organization. Choose newer paths of knowledge, become smarter and better in whatever we are at. But besides that there is no shining star... Like Microsoft used to be before I joined.

I was reading some stuff on performance and came to Rico's blog. Rico Mariani is a Software Architect at Microsoft and is known as a performance expert. I usually don't post referrals too much and try to write my own reflections. But this I just have to post. He talks about Performance Signatures.

I have to keep switching from a static IP to a dynamic IP every day and back. Dynamic IP at work and Static IP for my broadband at home. So being a developer the first thing I thought was to automate it. Home.bat for home IP Setting and office.bat for work IP settings.

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