What is new in visual studio 2013 - 2

Code Lens or Code Information Indicators
I liked the Code Information Indicators . It can be very useful to developers who are refactoring a lot.

One can disable from " options " if one doesn't like them.

 

What is new in visual studio 2013 - 1

Team Explorer is more Gui
1. More User Friendly
2. Liked recently used Solutions Links

 

Richard Branson : Book Review WSJ

http://online.wsj.com/articles/book-review-the-virgin-way-by-richard-branson-1410218387


Richard Branson stresses the need to be a good listener and the importance of breaking down silos. Strong leaders , he tells us must have vision, creativity and ability to influence them to follow and support them in the challenges of moving an organization into uncharted and often highly risky territory.

 Mission statements are hollow and generic.

Hiring a right candidate to important.

Hire a new guy to shake up the things

Fun environment is important to build passion and build relationships.

Other recommended reading books

1. Odyssey
2. Henry V
3. Supreme Command
4. Ernest Shackleton
5. The Prince

Attending Angular.JS Training

Asp.Net Web API is cool. WCF is not cool.

Session State is not cool. Cache is cool.


Nice Link
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13151725/how-is-angular-js-different-from-jquery

Trainer Link



Twitter handler that I should follow

https://twitter.com/despos




 

Popular Javascript IDEs

1. Eclipse
2. Webstorm
3. Sublime


Webstorm was recommend by another speaker at Software Meet Up Group

10 Tips on organizing your mind

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2014/08/18/ten-tips-on-organizing-your-mind-from-dr-daniel-levitin/



1. Take breaks
2. Set up computer monitors for different tasks
3.Embrace a paper to-do list
4. File correspondence in multiple ways
5. Purge when needed
6. Designate time for tasks and projects
7. Don't overspend time on trivial tasks
8. Sleep and nap on tasks
9. Don't over organize
10. Leave work at work

UI Tesing

 Verifying Code by Using UI Automation
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd286726.aspx

Bimby - the Kitchen Robot

Portugal can't quit the the cult of Bimby.
It costs 1,327$

Promise to make cooking cheap and easy
.
Looks like a food processor with a stainless-steel container and a steaming unit that weighs ingredients, chops , grates, blends ,beats mixes and cooks all under the control of a timer that let s cook step away from the kitchen until the food is ready.

Criticism

There is no  spontaneity buying the ingredients, cooking an even seasoning food, since every thing is already measured programmed and mechanized through their recipes.

Thought of the day

Asp Net Scaffolding  looks very promising

http://www.asp.net/visual-studio/overview/2013/aspnet-scaffolding-overview


Web API
http://www.asp.net/web-api/overview/getting-started-with-aspnet-web-api/tutorial-your-first-web-api

OData
http://www.asp.net/web-api/overview/odata-support-in-aspnet-web-api/creating-an-odata-endpoint


BSON Support in Web API 2.1
http://www.asp.net/web-api/overview/formats-and-model-binding/bson-support-in-web-api-21

wsj article review : Obama the Management Failure

Author of this blog does not have any stand on the theme or gist of the article.
Nevertheless there are some interesting points in the article about leadership and management.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303933104579302480571979884

1. Job of chief executive of the most powerful operation in the history of the world requires not executive experience
2. Presidential campaign is supposed to test also candidate managerial skills but the army of campaign manager, fundraisers and press secretaries running the show make it difficult to assess.
3. Leader job is to create a vision and inspire the follower to pursue it. Manager's job is to make the vision tangible.
4. Some leaders may be good managers but a sterling manager doesn't necessarily have the charismatic gene.
5. Some people may be born leaders , but most master the skill by painful experiences.
6. A manager learns that having the right idea or strategy isn't the goal but the obligatory first step in the process
7. Getting the plan or deal or product executed  properly is the job.
8. Even the most brilliant staffers have weaknesses.
9. With the 20th century, governors who had experience administering their states increasing took over generally for the better.(William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt and Calvin Coolidge)
10. The only American president who ever managed a mammoth  enterprise before entering a White House wasn't  a business executive at all: Dwight D. Eisenhower , who ran the Allied effort in Europe in World War II and masterminded D-Day, the largest and masterminded D-Day, the largest and most complicated Military operation in history. Derided in his Oval Office days as a smiling do-little, IKe is increasingly recognized today as  a slyly adroit president.
11. Jimmy Carter who was nuclear submarine engineer, didn't have a successful presidency
12. John F. Kennedy came up with "Excom" strategy team that brilliantly managed the Cuban Missile Crisis.

There are interesting comments. Best Presidents were those who were  ably to carry with them the opposition's leader.