Every since I learned that the most important characteristic of people who become experts is that they continue to learn throughout their careers at the same pace they did when they were beginners, I have found it helpful to do regular mental inventories of new things I’ve recently learned as a way to keep myself [...]
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I’ve read and listened to Scott Hanselman sing the praises of SlickRun for a long time, but I just recently got around to using it. For those of you who are as slow to catch on as me, it is essentially just a tricked-out version of the Run window that allows you launch programs much [...]
This week I installed a few nifty Firefox Add-Ons, All-In-One-Gestures and IE Tab. I tried All-In-One-Gestures after watching how fast a co-worker was able to navigate on the web by using this Add-On. It allows you to right-click anywhere on a web page and move the mouse left to go backward or right to go [...]
I was working with someone who doesn’t have ReSharper today and I noticed for the first time that I have developed some feature addictions because I actually winced when I watched him fully type out a property and then manually do an “extract method” refactoring. This surprised me since I have only really been consistently [...]
I just took this online typing test and found out that I type 73 words a minute with a 97.5 % accuracy rate, which I assume is average at best. It would be nice to be able to type faster, but I’m not going to waste any cycles trying to improve at this point because [...]
I’ve finally been bitten by the Resharper bug and now I want to be a Resharper Jedi when I grow up like Ilya Ryzhenkov on this video. According to the JetBrains .NET Tool Blog, a Resharper Jedi is someone who “can code hella fast with ReSharper and blow productivity levels off the chart”. I haven’t [...]
I’m doing some work now on an internal web application where I had to logon with an external test account before I could do anything. That got old fast, so I created a powershell script file to automatically launch IE, input the username and password, and click the submit button. I originally tried to do this with WatiN, [...]
I listened to an interesting prodcast on Channel 9 on my way to work this morning. I never had an inclination to listen to the MicroISV show before, but the title intrigued me: CrazyBusy – Overstretched, Overbooked and About to Snap! Strategies for Coping in a World Gone ADD“. Multi-tasking has never been a strength of mine [...]
