Jason Haley

Interesting Finds: May 11, 2008

Jason Haley — Sun, 11 May 2008 09:45:00 GMT

Other stuff
wpfdevelopment.com - A more generic way of sorting a WPF ListView with IComparer
Glenn Block - Prism, CAB, and WinForms futures
Guy Smith - Microsoft Meandering
Papenoo pa - Inversion Of Control and MS Exams Framework 3.5
Roy Osherove - NullObject.For - As simple as it gets, but no simpler
Kimberly Tripp - When did you last backup your home/personal/less-critical system... is it really less-critical?
Greg Duncan - RockScroll - Turning your Visual Studio scrollbar in a thumbnail of your code

Other link blogs
Alvin Ashcraft - Dew Drop - May 11, 2008
Dave Burke - Everyman Links for May 9, 2008
Arjan Zuidhof - LINKBLOG for May 10, 2008 and LINKBLOG for May 11, 2008
Matt - Links Today (2008-05-10)

Web stuff
Papenoo pa - ASP.NET Applications with debug=”false” enabled
Phil Haack - Writing A Custom File Download Action Result For ASP.NET MVC and Delegating Action Result
Steve Schofield - IIS 7 resource guide post by Mike Volodarsky

Career stuff
Travis Wright - 100 Simple Ways to Change Your Life for the Better

Debugging stuff
M. David Peterson - Want To Help Develop Visual Studio Support For Debugging Remote Mono Apps?

Interesting Finds: May 10, 2008

Jason Haley — Sat, 10 May 2008 09:15:00 GMT

Agile stuff
Clarke Ching - New yahoo group: EverydayAgile - let's bring agile to the world.

Web stuff
Wallace McClure - ASP.NET Podcast Show #113 - Deep Dive into the ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel
Papenoo pa - Forms Authentication : Sharing token
Dion Almaer - Exclusive Mastering Dojo Chapters
Omar Al Zabir - Fast ASP.NET web page loading by downloading multiple javascripts after visible content and in batch
Darren Rowse - Ad Positioning: Tactics to Increase Your AdSense Earnings Overnight

Other link blogs
Sam Gentile - New and Notable 240
Alvin Ashcraft - Dew Drop - May 10, 2008
Lazycoder - links for 2008-05-10
Christopher Steen - Link Listing - May 9, 2008
Technovangelist - Links for 2008-05-09 [del.icio.us]
Arjan Zuidhof - LINKBLOG for May 9, 2008
Matt - Links Today (2008-05-09)
37signals - [Sunspots] The small steps edition
Christopher Steen - Link Listing - May 8, 2008

Other stuff
Ayende Rahien - WPF & Prism: Before & After
Fredrick Normen - Use "constraints" instead of argument validation for int and double etc
Tim Anderson - Xobni: Outlook users should try this now
Sara Ford - Did you know… You can create a keyboard shortcut for adding references to a solution from the Object Browser? - #212
Trainer Prabhjot Bakhsi - Exposing Windows WorkFlow as Web services
Usman M Khan - Introduction to using XPathDocument, XPathNodeIterator, XPathNavigator and XPathExpression Objects
Scott Hanselman - The Weekly Source Code 26 - LINQ to Regular Expressions and Processing in Javascript and TypeConverters: There's not enough TypeDescripter.GetConverter in the world
Greg Duncan - Ever wondered what a diagram of the TFS 2008 Team Build Process would look like? Wonder no more...
pdestoop - MS Belux Architect Forum April 15 2008
Beau Monday - Identifying Stale Machine Accounts
Rod Paddock - Unlearn

Career stuff
Rick Mahn - Letting Go
Escape From Cubicle Nation - Help ME help YOU
Steve Pavlina - How to Be a Man
Freelance Switch - Self-Promotion Made Easy: an Interview With Calvin Lee
Don Dodge - John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins and Mike Moritz of Sequoia investment rules
Susan Bradley - Contracts and IT firms
Jeffery Phillips - Model Behavior
Celine Roque - Why You Should Define Your Worst Projects

PowerShell Stuff
PowerShell Team - Remoting with PowerShell QuickStart

Computing in the Cloud stuff
AWS Blog - Use Amazon SQS to Build Self-Healing Applications

Innovation stuff
Thiago - Innovation How-to from Pixar’s Leading Director

Community stuff
David Starr - Boise Technical Community

Debugging stuff
Tom - Getting more information from !clrstack

Innovation Notes: May 09, 2008

Jason Haley — Fri, 09 May 2008 08:21:00 GMT

Innovation training and recruitment, Zirn Liew
Thoughts on some of the points to take in account when attempting to teach innovation.

Concept Models, Carrie Ritch
Notes from a presentation at IxDA Interaction 08 by Dan Brown.

Effective Prototyping Methods, Carrier Ritch
Notes from a presentation at IxDA Interaction 08 by Jonathan Arnowitz of SAP Labs.

Account Sign-In: Many Mistakes To Learn From, Carrie Ritch
Links to a couple of good 'what not to do' articles for user experience.

Roger Martin: The Opposable Mind, Design Continuum
Short question and answer session with Roger Martin (author of The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking)

The Product Architect | A Design Continuum from Functional to Desirable, Dave Shackleton
Discussion of a method to help sell non-believers on better design by looking at the desirability, usability and functionality.

Interesting Finds: May 9, 2008

Jason Haley — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:28:00 GMT

Other stuff
Sasha Goldshtein - TechEd Israel 2008 Session Recordings Are Online and Latest Articles: Introduction to Workflow Services and Reading Unmanaged Data Into Structures
Alessandro Perilli - Microsoft opens Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool beta
Yazeed Hamdan - LINQ TO SQL All Common Operations (Insert,Update,Delete,Get) in ONE BASE Class
Andrew Coates - VSTO/VSTA Power Tools and Submitting Feedback on MS Products
Tess - How do I get a hotfix for .net or Visual Studio?
Lance - Teaching Parallelism
IKVM.Net Weblog - Compiler Intrinsics
pdestoop - S+S Sample App Litware HR - May 2008 Released
Ted Neward - Thinking in Language
David Burke - Everyman Links for May 8, 2008
Tomas Restrepo - Don't forget the BOM!
Scott Watermasysk - Castle Project
Damon Payne - Concurrent Unit Testing with xUnit.Net[1]
Microsoft Donwloads - Step-by-Step Guide for Testing Hyper-V and Failover Clustering
eugeniop - You don't have a beta account with SSDS, but you'd like to use the latest LitwareHR anyway
Joe Stagner - Free Mind Mapping Application
Scott Hanselman - Hanselminutes Podcast 110 - Microsoft Research: Spec#
Sara Ford - Did you know… The Object Browser has a navigate forward and navigate back? - #211
Todd Ogasawara - Freeware/Open Source for Windows Weekly Summary

Other link blogs
Alvin Ashcraft - Dew Drop - May 9, 2008
Mike Gunderloy - Double Shot #204
Chris Alcock - The Morning Brew #90
Steve Pietrek - Links (5/8/2008)
Arjan Zuidhof - LINKBLOG for May 8, 2008
Tim - Daily Find #65

Community stuff
Phil Denoncourt - New Hampshire .NET User Group is resuming in a new location
Microsoft Downloads - MSDN Community Distribution CD (May 2008)
Agile Managmenet Company - APLN Leadership Summit, Seattle July 17-18
Jonathan de Halleux - Pex at Agile 2008

Security stuff
Schneier on Security - Cell Phone Spying
Darknet - Want Some COFEE? Microsoft Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor

Web stuff
Microsoft Downloads - Mix it up (Mash it up) Experience the new web
pdestoop - Enterprise Mashup Tool (AKA Popfly for the Enterprise)
Federal Developer - OBA Composition Reference Toolkit version 2.0 Released
Paul Coldrey - Simple Component Inheritance In ExtJS
Matt Hawley - ASP.NET MVC - Using Post, Redirect, Get Pattern
Ricky Wang - Add Custom Configuration Sections into a Separate web.config
Wallace McClure - ASP.NET Podcast Show #112 - Intro to ASP.NET AJAX
Dion Almaer - Growl for Windows and a Web Notification API
Jake Morgan - ASP.NET Zip Entry Handler
Adamga - Microsoft Web Deployment Tool - Tech Preview 1 - x86

Debugging stuff
Dmitry Vostokov - WinDbg cheat sheet for crash dump analysis
NT Debug - Tracking down MmSt paged pool usage
Tom - ANSWER: POP QUIZ: Troubleshoot a Hang

PowerShell stuff
Joel Bennett - WPF From PowerShell - Updating Windows
PowerShell Team - Fun with Script Cmdlets and PowerShell Transactions QuickStart

Innovation stuff
experientia - France Telecom: from 1000 ideas to 1 product
Innovation Weblog - New report outlines how to develop business models for service innovation and Five pillars of sustainable innovation culture
Be Excellent - Achieving Business Excellence

Computing in the Cloud stuff
AWS Blog - High Performance Multithreaded Access to Amazon SimpleDB

Database stuff
Greg Duncan - Enhance your SSMS - SQL Server Management Studio Tools Pack 1.0 Released
Denis Gobo - How to log when a function is called?

Career stuff
Know It All - CIO Summit: Career Path

Interesting Finds: May 8, 2008

Jason Haley — Thu, 08 May 2008 07:13:00 GMT

Other link blogs
Alvin Ashcraft - Dew Drop - May 8, 2008
Christopher Steen - Link Listing - May 7, 2008
Mike Gunderloy - Double Shot #203
Sam Gentile - New and Notable 239
Lazycoder - links for 2008-05-08
Jon Galloway - Jon's News Wrapup - May 8, 2008 Edition
Chris Alcock - The Morning Brew #89
Nathan Weinberg - Links For May 8, 2008
Steve Pietrek - Links (5/7/2008)
Arjan Zuidhof - LINKBLOG for May 7 2008

Other stuff
Robert Chipperfield - Event, sit! Event, staaaay...
Jeff Alexander - Technet Magazine: May 08 Edition
Sam Gentile - Service Pass-Through in Neuron ESB
Sasha Goldshtein - Using the Workflow Rule Condition Editor for Your Own Rule Conditions
Fredrik Normen - How to validate a method's arguments?
Bill's House O Insomnia - LINQ Gotcha
Chris Heilmann - The seven rules of pragmatic progressive enhancement
Microsoft Downloads - Consuming S+S a.k.a. extended SOA
Mark Levison - Mythbusting - Collective Code Ownership
Travis Montgomery - Scan an Image, Clean It, OCR It and Save It
Federal Developer - WPF for Line of Business applications

Debugging stuff
Dmitry Vostokov - STL and WinDbg
Volker von Einem - Windbg help is online...
NT Debug - Work Queues and Dispatcher Headers

Database stuff
viswalnfotech - Bulk Insert using ODP.NET
Mladen Prajdic - Ease your SSMS experience: SSMS Tools PACK 1.0 is out!
Peter DeBetta - SQLblog: New SQL Server Forum is now available

Silverlight stuff
Tim Sneath - Great Silverlight 2 Demo: Healthcare Demonstrator

Career stuff
Jean-Paul Boodhoo - Are You Interested In Setting Up Your Own Training Company?
Lynda Ting - How to get Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins to invest
Tim Ferris - Lifestyle Investing: “Compound Time” Like Compound Interest?
Freelance Switch - What Are You Selling?
Ben Casnocha - America and High Tech Entrepreneurship
Matt - Workaholics fixate on inconsequential details

Community stuff
Andy Leonard - On Developer Communities: A Sponsor's Case Study

Web stuff
bspcn - 6 Excellent Firefox Extensions Made To Save You Time
Samuel Dean - More than 5 Free, Open Source Tools for Web Developers

Computing in the Cloud stuff
Ryan Dunn - The Business Value of SQL Server Data Services
AWS Blog - Amazon S3 Copy API Ready for Testing
Tim Anderson - Making sense of Salesforce.com

Interesting Finds: May 7, 2008

Jason Haley — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:25:00 GMT

Other stuff
Julia Lerman - Delete Stored Procs and Navigations in the Entity Data Model
Atalasoft - Building a Visual Studio DebuggerVisualizer with a Custom Serializer
Eric Lippert - Covariance and Contravariance, Part Eleven: To infinity, but not beyond
Nicholas Allen - Generating Types with Lists
Dmitry Vostokov - Citrix Tools at PubForum
Alessandro Perilli - Microsoft publishes a ROI/TCO calculator powered by IDC methodology
Omer van Kloeten - A Limitation of Lambda Expressions and Overloaded Extension Methods
Tomas Restrepo - Bitten by IEnumerable<T>
Joe Stagner - System.Net.Mail - Sending Email with .NET
Sara Ford - Did you know… You can add references to your solution directly from the Object Browser - #210
Ronounours - A C++ Blob Editor in less than 128 lines of code
Bil Simser - Day-to-day with Subversion
Roy Osherove - Introducing LINQ To Regex
Greg Duncan - New MSDN Subscriber Downloads List Feed now available

Web stuff
Roger Martin - Gallery Server Pro - An ASP.NET Gallery for Sharing Photos, Video, Audio and Other Media
Dion Almaer - Lazily load functionality via Unobtrusive Scripts
Mike Ormond - ASP.NET Dynamic Data Preview - Mixing with "Static" Pages
Chris Brandsma - Using JQuery DatePicker in ASP.Net
Mike Ormond - MVC Framework - Encapsulating for Re-use
Mike Gunderloy - Dragonfly Smashes Bugs in Opera
Joe Stagner - Get the .NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit

Computing in the Cloud stuff
Mike Gunderloy - Three Cloud Storage Alternatives

Other link blogs
Matt - Links Today (2008-05-07) and Links Today (2008-05-06)
Tim - Daily Find #64
Alvin Ashcraft - Dew Drop - May 7, 2008
Mike Gunderloy - Double Shot #202
Christopher Steen - Link Listing - May 6, 2008
Chris Alcock - The Morning Brew #88

Database stuff
Denis Gobo - Should SQL Server Have The CREATE [OR REPLACE] PROCEDURE Syntax? and What Would You Like To Ask Erland Sommarskog?
Liviu Holhos - INT versus GUID on a table's primary key

Community stuff
Julie Lerman - Our .NET Community

Debugging stuff
Dmitry Vostokov - Crash Dump Analysis Patterns (Part 10a)
Tess - ntdll!kifastSystemcallret, SharedUserData!SystemCallStub and search engines...
Tom - ASP.NET Tips: What to gather to troubleshoot – part 3 – Crash
NT Debug - NTDebugging Puzzler 0x00000005 (Better late than never)

Security stuff
Tim Heuer - Foxit PDF Previewer Security Update
Darknet - rtpbreak 1.3a Released - RTP Analysis and Hacking

Career stuff
Jeff Lash - Stop gathering requirements
Jason Bock - Staying Motivated

Silverlight stuff
Tim Heuer - Making use of your JSON data in Silverlight

Interesting Finds: May 6, 2008

Jason Haley — Tue, 06 May 2008 07:05:00 GMT

Database stuff
Allen M White - Use a SQL Agent Proxy for Special Tasks
Aaron Bertrand - When was my database / table last accessed?
Greg Duncan - SQL Server 2008 Page Compression and Multiple Processors (More is better... mostly)

Other stuff
Sam Gentile - Centralizing Your WCF Configuration with Neuron ESB
Sara Ford - Did you know… You can create a custom list of components for the Object Browser - #209
Coding Horror - Understanding Model-View-Controller
Ayende Rahien - Pluggable Domain Model
Andrew Coates - Visual Studio 2008 certifications demystified
K. Scott Allen - Contrasting Two MVC / LINQ to SQL Applications for the Web
Paul Vick - Collection initializer expressions
Scott Mitchell - May's Toolbox Column Online
IE Blog - IE and Windows XP Service Pack 3
Red Gate Software - Why You Should Own a Code Profiling Tool
JetBrains News - dotTrace 3.1 released
Patrick Steele - Navigating around in the VS.NET IDE
Todd Ogasawara - Windows Mobile Weekly Roundup
Jason Harris - Making Sense of Mobile Broadband Options

Other link blogs
Sam Gentile - New and Notable 238
Mike Gunderloy - Double Shot #201
Lazycoder - links for 2008-05-06
Chris Alcock - The Morning Brew #87
Robert Muehsig - Weekly Links: ASP.NET MVC, Live Mesh, Silverlight, .NET…
Christopher Steen - Link Listing - May 5, 2008
Alvin Ashcraft - Dew Drop - May 6, 2008

Web stuff
Dion Almaer - Details of button padding in various browsers and Ajax Pioneer Week: Sam Stephenson of Prototype and HTML Parser in JavaScript
Scott Guthrie - Professional ASP.NET 3.5 Book (only $16 on Amazon for a short time)
nickyt - Navigating Away from a Page that has Changes, in ASP.NET
Phil Haack - RouteEvaluator For Unit Testing Routes
Robert Muehsig - jQuery… some links
Rey Bango - Ajaxian Featured Tutorial: Using YSlow for Performance Analysis

Debugging stuff
Dmitry Vostokov - Crash Dump Analysis for System Administrators
Tess - ASP.NET Crash: StackOverflowException with Server.Transfer
Volker von Einem - Windbg version 6.9.3.113 is out (I'm still keeping 6.7.5.0)
Tom - ASP.NET Tips: What to gather to troubleshoot – part 2 – High Memory
John Robbins - WinDBG 6.9.3.113 Released

Finance stuff
CNNMoney.com - Savers: Beware of falling interest rates

Security stuff
Darknet - Patch Window Shrinking - Semi-Automated Reverse Engineering

PowerShell stuff
Joel Bennett - WPF From PowerShell - A Splash Screen

Career stuff
Scott Sehlhorst - Making Offshore Development Work
Escape From Cubicle Nation - How to develop an entrepreneurial mindset
Freelance Switch - Mental Exercises To Get Ahead With The Freelancing
Microsoft Research - Video: Jennifer Chayes Discusses Microsoft Research New England
Scott Blitstein - PayCycle Offers Online Payroll for Small Business

Interesting Finds: May 5, 2008

Jason Haley — Mon, 05 May 2008 06:41:00 GMT

Other stuff
Nicholas Allen - Private Data Members
Sara Ford - Did you know… You can specify to only show components in your Solution in the Object Browser? - #208
Sasha Goldshtein - Workflow Services Limitations: Part 3 - Send and Receive Race Condition and Workflow Services Limitations: Part 2 - OneWay Not Always Asynchronous and Workflow Services Limitations: Part 1 - External Transactions
Evan Hoff - A Very Poor Object Model Is Really No Object Model At All
Josh Smith - Aggregating WPF Commands with CommandGroup
Alvin Ashcraft - Book Review: Professional Visual Studio Extensibility by Keyvan Nayyeri
Raghavan Ram Raja - Simple Managed Wrapper for Windows Pipes
Ayende Rahien - Matching SVK revision numbers to the SVN revision number
Mike Taulty - Living with Live
David Brabant - CodeScout

Other link blogs
Alvin Ashcraft - Dew Drop - May 5, 2008
Mike Gunderloy - Double Shot #200
Sam Gentile - New and Notable 237
Lazycoder - links for 2008-05-05
Christopher Steen - Link Listing - May 4, 2008
Steve Pietrek - Links (5/4/2008)
Rhonda Tipton - Weekly Link Post 40
Josh Phillips - Weekly Roundup 5/4/08

Community stuff
Glenn Block - Reflections on ALT.NET Seattle, breakfast
D Glover - MS Press Books Discount (May 2008, Australia) Available via your User Group Leader
Stephen Forte - Montreal Visual Studio User Group Monday

Database stuff
Tony Rogerson - Using the OUTPUT clause on INSERT when loading data using OPENROWSET and BULK operator

Computing in the Cloud stuff
pdestoop - Emerging Platform Wars in Enterprise SaaS
Edward Cottrell - Intel on Cloud Computing

Security stuff
Darknet - Sandman - Read the Windows Hibernation File

Web stuff
Joe Wrobel - Web Profile Builder 1.3
Stefan Tilkov - Just Add Scaling
Rick Strahl - ASP.NET Connections Slides and Samples Posted
Wallace McClure - ASP.NET Podcast Show #110 - Integrating ASP.NET AJAX with Google Maps
Joe Stagner - BOOK: ASP.NET Data Presentation Controls

Career stuff
Stuart Varrall - US vs UK Entrepreneurial Culture
Zen Habits - 16 Ways to Keep A Razor- Sharp Focus at Work
Freelance Switch - Bad Habits: 8 Ways Freelancers Disrespect Their Own Time

Xml stuff
K. Scott Allen - The XML Namespace Tax

Innovation stuff
Drew Boyd - Innovation Diagnostic

Question: How do you stay up to date?

Jason Haley — Sun, 04 May 2008 21:29:00 GMT

There are a couple of things that triggered this entry:

Dave Burke's Everyman Links for May 3, 2008 where he point to Mabster's entry Developing with Confidence
The latest edition of Microsoft's The Architecture Journal, Journal 15 came in the mail this weekend - this edition is all about architects and the practice of architecture.

I've only read the first article so far (We Don't Need No Architects by Joseph Hofstader) in which I found the following quotes interesting:

"The role of the IT architect is to solve a problem by defining a system that can be implemented using technology. Good architects define systems by applying abstract knowledge and proven methods to a set of technologies with the goal of creating an extendible and maintainable solution."

"Understanding how a technology works is not enough to develop a robust software solution - understanding where the technology is applicable within a solution is essential to the development of a quality product."

To me the article is really good at describing how an architect really needs to have a broad knowledge base (domain and technical) as well as the ability to conceptualize the business problems and on the flip side see the patterns that can be applied to the solution. To me this means two things: experience and a great ability to be and stay current with the software industry.

So the question on my mind is: How do architects (or even developers) best stay up to date with all the new technologies, patterns, processes, etc. in order to best determine when and where to use them?

Anyone have any tips?

Interesting Finds: May 4, 2008

Jason Haley — Sun, 04 May 2008 08:04:00 GMT

Other link blogs
Alvin Ashcraft - Dew Drop - May 4, 2008 and Dew Drop - May 3, 2008
Dave Burke - Everyman Links for May 3, 2008

Other stuff
Sasha Golshtein - JIT Optimizations and WMI Provider Extensions in .NET 3.5
Andy Leonard - Taking Red To x64
Michael Arrington - Microsoft/Yahoo: Summary Of Today’s News & Bonus Gillmor Gang
Josh Smith - Creating the Same Program in Windows Forms and WPF
David Burke - Nordic Track Book Club Review: Mavericks at Work and A Shift-Alternate approach to Visual Studio keyboard shortcuts
Simon Fell - Metadata API (more)
The Moth - Lenovo Fn key
Don Box - Fowler's DSL Book
Ben Casnocha - Why China's Infrastructure Projects Zoom

Computing in the cloud stuff
David Lem - Is The Cloud Just A Big Server?
AWS Blog - On Condor and Grids
Lynda Ting - SaaS: What the VCs are saying - part one and SaaS: What the VCs are saying - part two

Web stuff
Phil Haack - Code Based Repeater for ASP.NET MVC
Dave Burke - Give me a hand! (Cursor, that is)

Database stuff
Alexander Kuznetsov - When Index Covering Prevents Deadlocks

Career stuff
Stuart Varrall - Why Don't Entrepreneurs Scale?
Celine Roque - What to Do About That Big Project You’ve Been Putting Off

Community stuff
Adnan Masood - My Sessions @ Upcoming SoCal Code Camp in San Diego - 28, 29th. June

Innovation Notes: May 3, 2008

Jason Haley — Sat, 03 May 2008 21:24:00 GMT

For the past couple of weeks, I've been taking some time to investigate innovation related topics (and subscribing to more 'innovation' type blogs). Until today, I've just been emailing my department at work whenever I found something I thought other people would be interested in ... now I'm going to also start posting these to my blog.

Today's search started with the design company IDEO - so the majority of these items are related to it in some way.

The world's most innovative companies, FastCompany.com
FastCompany.com's listing of their 2008 Fast 50. Found this on IDEO's home page. I think the Fast 50 is from Feb 2008, so this might be old information for some of you.

The Power of Design, BusinessWeek May 17, 2004
Article about the IDEO way Also found this on IDEO's home page. It is around 8 pages long, but without the images it is only around 5 pages. I haven't completely finished the article yet, but is seems to give a good overview of what the company does and a little about how they do it.

Creativity and Innovation, Stuart Varrall
Some observations of IDEO's company culture and how it fosters creativity. A good quote from Stuart:
"Teams are flexible and dynamic, and the company structure flat, enabling people to concentrate on the job at hand, rather than office politics."

Company Culture, Stuart Varrall
Sums up some common company culture lessons learned from IDEO and Google.
Good link in the entry: Nine Lessons Learned about Creativity at Google, Marissa Mayer

Top Five Suggestions For Entrepreneurs From IDEO, Simeon Simeonov
Overview of a session from last week's Nantucket Conference with some additional resources (video clips, book links and additional information on IDEO).

Interesting Finds: May 3, 2008

Jason Haley — Sat, 03 May 2008 08:19:00 GMT

Other stuff
arif_uap - A Customized User Control Combo (smartCombo) that can handle generic connection
Sharon Salmon - Handling Html Events by .NET C#
Signs on the Sand - Hidden Undocumented Feature of Visual Studio 2008 - Dynamic XSLT Intellisense
Jean-Paul Boodhoo - Got Icons?
Greg Duncan - Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer 2.1 - Now with Vista/ Windows Server 2008 and x64 Support
Jack Vaughan - Stroustrup on programming languages in evolution
Jay Kimble - Composition vs. Inheritance...
Travis Montgomery - Scan an Image, Clean It, OCR It and Save It
Brad Wilson - The Past, Present, and Future of .NET Unit Testing

Career stuff
Tim Ferriss - Prepping for Warren Buffett: The Art of the Elevator Pitch (Videos)
Marco Dorante - What the role of an architect really wants to be?
Freelance Switch - How an Inquisitive Mindset Can Make Your Work Better
Samuel Dean - 5 Essentials for the Mobile Web Worker
Mike Gunderloy - Web Worker 101: Cashflow Management

Community stuff
Rich Claussen - May PADNUG Meeting: CodeIt.Right the First Time
Xaprb - Come to beCamp 2008
Chris Bowen - The Roadshow Rides Again! - May/June Edition
Adam Machanic - [New England] NESQL Special Meeting, Featuring Craig Freedman
Agile Management Companion - Agile Edge in Washington D.C. May 22nd
Jason Bock - Magenic Technology Summit

PowerShell stuff
Joel Bennett - PowerShell 2 CTP2 — Wow! and PowerShell Power User Tips: Bash-style “alias” command.
PowerShell Team - Announcing the release of Community Technology Preview-2 (CTP2) of Windows PowerShell V2

Other link blogs
Sam Gentile - New and Notable 236
Christopher Steen - Link Listing - May 2, 2008

Web stuff
Chris Brandsma - CheckBox GridView Column with a web service call
Brennan Stehling - ASP.NET: Fixing a Bug in the MS AJAX Client-Side
Stephen Forte - Are Ruby on Rails' Days are Numbered at big sites?
Dion Almaer - We are JavaScript library authors. Hear us roar! and Emulating get, set, catchall for all browsers

Debugger stuff
Nt Debug - How to have a colorful relationship with your dump files
Tom - ASP.NET Tips: What to gather to troubleshoot – part 1 – High CPU

Computing in the cloud stuff
Denis Gobo - Video: SQL Server Data Services Business Value

Database stuff
Emil Lerch - Check Validity of Sql Server Stored Procedures/Views/Functions (updated)
Denis Gobo - Testing for SQL Server Vulnerabilities

Interesting Finds: May 2, 2008

Jason Haley — Fri, 02 May 2008 07:12:00 GMT

Other link blogs
Alvin Ashcraft - Dew Drop - May 2, 2008
Mike Gunderloy - Double Shot #199
Chris Alcock - The Morning Brew #86
Christopher Steen - Link Listing - May 1, 2008
Steve Pietrek - Links (5/1/2008)
Matt - Links Today (2008-05-01)

Web stuff
Ralph Varjabedian - Binding ASP.NET TreeView to a DataSet or an ObjectDataSource
Samuel Dean - Web Worker Tips and Tricks: A Blast from the Past
Ferreri Gabriele - Faster JavaScript StringBuilder

Career stuff
The Elves - Starting A Culture Club
Mitchell York - Podcast on Starting a Business
Steve Pavlina - The Value of Ideas

Security stuff
Darknet - US Really Owns Your Data Now!

Database stuff
KKline - MIRRORING THROTTLES BACKLOG
Greg Duncan - SQL Server 2008 FILESTREAM Attribute from Start to C#
Denis Gobo - Who do you want to see interviewed next?

Other stuff
Kenney Kerr - Special offer for Paint.NET users
Jakob Homan - Subversion is the most important tool that a CS student can possess...
Jon Galloway - [Utility] TeraCopy removes the file copy pain from Windows Vista
mpuleio - Converting the Composite Web Application Block to Unity - Actually Adding Unity
Marco Dorante - Should an architect code?
Papenoo pa - Performance WCF
azamsharp - Designing Application Using Test Driven Development
Jan Van Ryswyck - On Persistence
H. Steele Price, IV - DebuggerWriter for Linq to SQL
Greg Duncan - New "Level 200" Threading and Synchronization Article
Gerry Heidenreich - Cynical Spolsky - Why Mesh Might Work
Todd Ogasawara - Freeware/Open Source for Windows Weekly Summary
Sara Ford - Did you know… Ctrl+Alt+J opens the Object Browser - #207

PowerShell stuff
Joel Bennett - Get-Web (Another round of wget for PowerShell)
Greg Duncan - Storing and using a Password with PowerShell - Fun with ConvertTo-SecureString and ConvertFrom-SecureString

Debugging stuff
Roberto Farah - Special Command—Using Breakpoints: bp, bm, ba, bu

Community stuff
Schott Sehlhorst - ProductCamp Austin 2008
Rick Strahl - ASP.NET Connections Slides and Samples Posted

Innovation stuff
Innovation Weblog - What is incubation, and how can you utilize it to be more creative?

Computing in the cloud stuff
Paul McDougall - Google, IBM Join Forces to Dominate 'Cloud Computing'

Interesting Finds: May 1, 2008

Jason Haley — Thu, 01 May 2008 07:06:00 GMT

Other link blogs
Tim - Daily Find #63
Mike Gunderloy - Double Shot #198
Chris Alcock - The Morning Brew #85
Christopher steen - Link Listing - April 30, 2008
Jakob Homan - LinuxFest 2008 wrapup
Arjan Zuidhof - LINKBLOG for April 30, 2008
Lazycoder - links for 2008-04-30
Matt - Links Today (2008-04-30)

Other stuff
Code24.com - An IP-Monitor
Sara Ford - Did you know… you can prompt for arguments when you run an external tool - #206
Frans Bouma - Dynamic Data and 3rd party o/r mappers is a fact
leastprivilege.com - P2P and WCF: Exposing a Service and P2P and WCF: Finding a Service and P2P and WCF: Registering a Service
Dwayne Melancon - A deal on NitroPDF Professional through May 7
Sam Gentile - A High Level View of the Neuron ESB Architecture
Sasha Goldshtein - WMI Provider Extensions in .NET 3.5 - Publishing Events and Advanced Topics and WMI Provider Extensions in .NET 3.5 - Read-Write and Method Provider and WMI Provider Extensions in .NET 3.5 - Introduction and Read-Only Provider
Miguel de Icaza - Rodrigo Kumpera Completes the Mono Verifier
Sijin Joseph - Programmer Competency Matrix

Career stuff
Brad Abrams - Job Openings Working on the .NET Framework Product Team
Feelance Switch - Write Your Hourly Rate Schedule on a Postage Stamp
Celine Roque - How to Be a Stress-free Web Worker

Security stuff
asmatiks - Storm Worm Reversing Challenge
Philipp Lenssen - Income Levels Of All Italians Posted Online

Web stuff
Dion Almaer - Ajaxian Roundup for April, 2008: CSS goodness, Ext licenses, and the Cloud

Community stuff
Jarod Ferguson - Alt.Net Seattle - Takeaway().Resources
Chris Bowen - New England SQL Server User Group Special Event - 5/8

Computing in the Cloud stuff
AWS Blog - More Bits for Your Money - AWS Bandwidth Pricing Reduced

PowerShell stuff
Chris Bilson - Mailing Git Patches With Powershell

Database stuff
Chirs Brandsma - New Date and Time types in SQL Server 2008

Debugging stuff
Dmitry Vostokov - Command Autocompletion in WinDbg
Tom - An Open Debugger Extension and Code Gallery and CodePlex, how are they different and what are their benefits?

Blogging stuff
Darren Rowse - What You Say is What You Are - The Problem of Blogger Inferiority Complex

Interesting Finds: April 30, 2008

Jason Haley — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:01:00 GMT

Other link blogs
Alvin Ashcraft - Dew Drop - April 30, 2008 and Dew Drop - April 29, 2008
Mike Gunderloy - Double Shot #197
Chris Alcock - The Morning Brew #84
Steve Rubel - links for 2008-04-30
Steve Pietrek - Links (4/29/2008)
Arjan Zuidhof - LINKBLOG for April 29, 2008

Web stuff
Scott Blitstein - Iceberg for Custom Web Apps Without Coding
Mike Hall - A full browser toolkit
.Net Adventures - 7 free online editors for your asp.net site (part 2)
Dion Almaer - Usable Directory Listings with Dojo

Other stuff
Sara Ford - Did you know… How the External Tools Tokens Work? - #205
Jim Holmes - Troubleshooting: Simple Stuff First
Scott Hanselman - The Weekly Source Code 25 - OpenID Edition
Greg Duncan - Free Spell Checker (Strings Literals, Comments, etc) for Visual Studio - ComponentOne's IntelliSpell Community Edition
Sam Gentile - Neuron 2.0 - The WCF and SOA Enabler and NEUDESIC RELEASES NEURON-ESB 2.0
Kenny Kerr - Window Clippings 2.1.28
Chris Bilson - Working With Git Patch Files on Windows and How To Make Your MSI Install But Not Own An AppPool with Wix
Sigurd Johansen - Drag and Drop on a Windows Form
Jason Harris - Projjex: A New Player in Project Management
Tom - ASP.NET Tips: Printing an IP Address
Nicholas Carr - McKinsey surveys the new software landscape

Debugging stuff
Tess - Why are some commands missing in sos for 2.0 compared to sos for 1.1?
NT Debug - Announcement: ODbgExt (Open Debugger Extension) on CodePlex

Security stuff
Darknet - CDPSnarf - CDP Packet Sniffer

Database stuff
Thomas Williams - What are SQL Server Agent Job 'Categories'?
Mladen Prajdic - SQL Server 2005: Get full information about transaction locks

Career stuff
Freelance Switch - Health Insurance for Freelancers
Mike Gunderloy - Building a Career on Bursty Work

Community stuff
Joe Stagner - Free CMS and Hosting for .NET User Groups

Google Reader working out well

Jason Haley — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:10:00 GMT

For the last week or so I've been using Google Reader for my morning blog reading and .... it is saving me at least 15 min a day! It is nice to not have to wait for the aggregator to update. Back when I was in Salem - I formed an offline mentality of blog reading because I use to do the majority of my blog reading on the train (offline) ... but since I now walk to work now - the use of an aggregator that was offline most of the time was costing me time ... never thought of it that way I guess.

Thanks to you readers who've suggested Google Reader the past few years ... wish I would have listened earlier!