Monday, June 14, 2010

The 7 habits of Highly Effective People ( 5 out of 5)

7 habits of Highly Effective People is an excellent book.

For technical problems , there are design patterns books to help you to solve problem in certain context.
Did you wish that you had such book to deal with Managment and Leadership issue?

This book fits the bill.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Developers

Found through google.
Hilarious but true

http://www.scribd.com/doc/2919209/Seven-Habits-of-Highly-Effective-Developers

Sunday, June 06, 2010

Why should one upgrade to .Net 4.0 ?

Why should one upgrade to .Net 4.0

1. Named Arguments and Optional Parameter in C# 4.0
I have used this feature in old VB versions and loved it. I really missed it in C#.
Should make code more readable
2. URL Routing with ASP.Net 4 Web Forms.
3. Built in Chart Controls (though I love ChartFx controls)
4. Great Intellisense help for Javascript(I will stick with Rubmine)
5. Pinned DataTips
6. VS2010 Debugger Improvements (Breakpoints Labeling, Data Tips and Import/Export)
Data Tip looks like a very cool feature . It should make debugging more easy.
You can add the notes. I liked the noted added by Scott to demonstrate the capabilities.
7. Clean Web.Config
Do you hate your Web.Config? I hate mine.
Important Note: .Net 4.0 includes a new version of the CLR and a new .NET 4 specific machine.config(which is installed side-by-side with the one user by .NET 2, .NET 3.0 and .NET 3.5)
8. Cleaner HTML Markup with ASP.Net 4.0 Web Forms – Client IDs

Good bye to ctl00_ContentPlaceholder1_ListView1_ctrl0_Label1 ids



http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/08/25/vs-2010-and-net-4-series.aspx