Presentations...- January 22, 2003 I speaking tomorrow at a internal Microsoft event. I've spoken at tons of conferences (PDC, TechEd, etc.) and for groups ranging form 1 to 2000. Today I did the rehearsal for one of the demos i'm going and it didn't really work... I had tomorrow blocked off to run through all the presentations to make sure i'm ready, but sometimes its good to get a little slap in the face to remind me to prepare adequatly... it's easy to get a little cavalier about these things... Scott made a good posting...http://www.simplegeek.com/permalink.aspx/111 There can be only one... with data- January 22, 2003 Sean & Scott fixed link: The example you gave is great, although I would suggest something a little more robust, specifically you probably want to allow data to pass between the already running instance and the new one created (this allows you to marshal the command line arguments). I wrote an article on this last year... however supporting data marhsalling makes the code much much more nasty. BTW, there were some minor bugs in the single instance logic that were fixed in next article..http://www.simplegeek.com/permalink.aspx/110 Quaker votes- January 20, 2003 Jerry (no blog) has been telling us all about a process they use for consensus link from Michael building in some standards meetings... apparently the Quaker vote is done by everyone voting on each item as one of: a) Preferb) Can live withc) Can't live with The idea being that reasonable people will more quickly come to a decision with they understand what people are willing to tolerate and not. Seems interesting. Several of us in my group are going off to do some architecture...http://www.simplegeek.com/permalink.aspx/105 Japan and Management- January 20, 2003 I have always wanted to move to Japan. More specifically I have always wanted to live in a foreign country for long enough that I'm not just a tourist. I&146;ve been fortunate enough to travel a fair amount. I have been able to see Japan, Spain, USSR (while it still existed), etc. I find travel to be one of the most exciting and invigorating things you can do. So the other day when an old friend called from Japan and said he had some open positions... To cut to the chase, I'm not moving to...http://www.simplegeek.com/permalink.aspx/104 XP and code reviews- January 19, 2003 CrazyBob and Chiara are debating XP... I haven't done true XP, however I can comment on some of the principles... Many developers have massive egos. The simple practice of requiring every checkin to have a code review seems like a basic rule. Peer review should be a requirement. I have actually heard a developer say "No one can code review my changes, they are too complex." I agree with CrazyBob about having someone review your changes keeps you honest. When I review changes I try to set a...http://www.simplegeek.com/permalink.aspx/102 A (very) little ASP.NET- January 18, 2003 Starting to inject some ASP.NET code into my site... I sure wish that Radio had a mode that evaluated it's script on the server with ASP.NET - i'd love to be able to add some more dynamic content to the server. The first content - my list of movies.http://www.simplegeek.com/permalink.aspx/101 Aggregators rock!- January 16, 2003 Wow... I hadn't played with any aggregators enough before, but Syndirella is really cool. The ability to fly through blogs with a simple space-space-space browsing is just awesome... it kills me that one or two my links don't have RSS feeds.http://www.simplegeek.com/permalink.aspx/97 Another .NET RSS aggregator- January 16, 2003 Syndirella is pretty cool - nice UI, small download, lots of features... very cool! Dave Winerhttp://www.simplegeek.com/permalink.aspx/96 Free C IDE- January 16, 2003 SharpDevelop looks like a really cool tool. I thought it was pretty neat that I could switch the language for the IDE (English, Japanese, etc.) on the fly in the tool and the UI would automatically update. Pretty complete tool... forms designer, statement completion, project system, etc. Very slick!http://www.simplegeek.com/permalink.aspx/95 Mary Jo Foley- January 15, 2003 From "Microsoft Watch" (newsletter): "More and more Microsofties (past and present) are setting up Weblogs. Some are chronicling the debates inside Microsoft and the rest of the software industry. Others completely shy away from any mentions of their employer. We've been building out our collection of Microsoft blogger bookmarks. Not too surprisingly, many of these folks are connected to Microsoft's developerWeb services divisions. Here are a few of our favorites: Joshua Allen's Better...http://www.simplegeek.com/permalink.aspx/94 |