Dewayne Mikkelson and his Radio WebDog, Shadow"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark TwainLooking for a New Year's Resolution- December 31, 2003 Roland Weigelt says: There are many exciting .NET topics waiting for us in 2004. Simply too much stuff to be tried and understood, too much knowledge to be gained. If you're making plans for 2004, here's one single thing I can fully recommend: If you're not already doing it, start writing unit tests using a test framework. Unit testing is one of these "I really should be doing this" concepts. Even though I read and heard about unit testing years ago, I only started doing it in 2003....http://radio.weblogs.com/0101015/2003/12/31.html#a1297 ExtendedDataGrid control- December 31, 2003 Source: Jan Tielens' Bloggings Announcing the ExtendedDataGrid: Adding essential functionality to the default Windows.Forms.DataGrid.. The default System.Windows.Forms.DataGrid provided by the .NET Framework is a little bit limited in functionality. Therefore I've spent some time during my holidays building an extension to this default grid: the ExtendedDataGrid. At this point I've released a Beta version: 0.1 including these features: Image DataColumn Formatted Text DataColumn LinkLabel...http://radio.weblogs.com/0101015/2003/12/31.html#a1296 Our Story- December 31, 2003 Source: How to Save the World OUR STORY. It's funny how things come together sometimes. Monday, after posting my advice column on blogging time-savers, and saying the most important thing is to get away from your computer and your reading and get out into the real world and give yourself time to think creatively about what really matters to you personally, I followed my own advice. Chelsea and I went for a long walk. And soon my head was filled with rage about all the things wrong with this.http://radio.weblogs.com/0101015/2003/12/31.html#a1295 12 Questions that matter.- December 31, 2003 Source: 347.com Andy's World FastCompany Sidebar: 12 Questions That Matter This magazine continues to push awesome content. Read this excerpt, but then go read the entire article. - Andy If you want to build the most powerful company possible, then your first job is to help every person generate compelling answers to 12 simple questions about the day-to-day realities of his or her job. These are the factors, argue Marcus Buckingham and his colleagues at the Gallup Organization, that...http://radio.weblogs.com/0101015/2003/12/30.html#a1294 The Real World.- December 27, 2003 Source: Ming the Mechanic The Real World. While looking for something else I incidentally ran into this little thing in somebody's webzine from '96. A vision I apparently wrote, although I can't remember exactly where."I envision a time when most people have stopped having problems they don't need to have, and where they spend most of their time dealing with what is actually going on in their lives, what is right in front of them, what needs to be done. That is, people will stop acting and...http://radio.weblogs.com/0101015/2003/12/27.html#a1293 What's your BHAG.- December 27, 2003 Source: The Scobleizer Weblog At the end of every year, it's good to think of a new BHAG -- for a Big Hairy Audacious Goal. What's your BHAGThe Scobleizer Webloghttp://radio.weblogs.com/0101015/2003/12/26.html#a1292 Awesome Post from Scott Rosenburg- December 25, 2003 Awesome Post !!!Source: Scott Rosenberg's Links & Comment Yearend fugueBlogging from me will be light over the holidays. Any spare time I get over the next week will be devoted, weather allowing, to building my kids a swing set in the backyard. But before the eggnog haze descends upon us, a few choice links. First, Mother Jones has an interview with Tony Kushner in which the "Angels in America" playwright states, with crystalline precision, the essential fact of the 2004 election. This...http://radio.weblogs.com/0101015/2003/12/25.html#a1290 Code Generation in Microsoft .NET.- December 24, 2003 Source: WebLogs DotNetJunkies.com Okay, it's time to take the wraps off. Kathleen Dollard, simply the smartest person I know, has finished her Code Generation in Microsoft .NET book for APress. I guarantee that this will be the hardest book you read in 2004, but also that it will be the single most important book for making you as productive as you can be as a .NET or SQL Server programmer. You know all that boring, repetitive code you write for a typical application Do away with it and.http://radio.weblogs.com/0101015/2003/12/24.html#a1289 Signing your assembly, newbie guide.- December 24, 2003 Source: Frans Bouma's blog Signing your assembly, newbie guide. Follow these easy steps. The first 4 steps you only have to do ONCE in your life. Step 5-7 you only have to do ONCE per project. Open a command prompt Type vsvars32.bat (enter) or navigate to the .NET bin dir Type: sn -k mykey.key (enter) Move mykey.key to a folder where it gets backupped daily, for example: c:myfileskeys Open your code's solution in Visual Studio.NET Open the AssemblyInfo class in the editor For the...http://radio.weblogs.com/0101015/2003/12/24.html#a1288 Michael Chricton on Environmentalism.- December 23, 2003 Source: Keith's Weblog Michael Chrichton to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco: I studied anthropology in college, and one of the things I learned was that certain human social structures always reappear. They can't be eliminated from society. One of those structures is religion. Today it is said we live in a secular society in which many people --- the best people, the most enlightened people --- do not believe in any religion. But I think that you cannot eliminate religion from the...http://radio.weblogs.com/0101015/2003/12/23.html#a1287 |