February 2009 Entries
The other day I saw a really cool and to the point post entitled 8 ways to be a better programmer in 6 minutes.SecretGeek was talking about .NET development, of course, and so am I. I thought I’ll come up with my own list, but focus on efficiency and speed. Anyway, here it goes. Make commenting and uncommenting dead easy. Right on the toolbar, click Customize… Drag Comment Block and Uncomment Block onto the toolbar. Using the ampersand, make shortcut keys, respectively, to be Alt+c and Alt+x. How? Just rename the menu items to &Comment...
This sounds harsh. Especially when referring to the team that helped the Internet break free of the yoke that was Internet Explorer. These guys deserve better. Andy Grove (András Gróf, to those of us who speak Hungarian), formerly the CEO of Intel, once wrote in his seminal work “Only the Paranoid Survive”, that in technology, established companies, organizations and standards only get overthrown when something that better by a factor of 10 arrives on the scene. Since Google Chrome browser arrived on the scene in 2008, it has been relentlessly getting better. The team has been fixing...
When IE8 beta appeared several months ago, I installed it to check it out. It wasn’t too bad: sure, some sites didn’t work properly, others flat out failed to load, but mostly everything could be worked out with the use of that “Compatibility” button. I gave it slack for the software being beta. On top of that, IE is not my primary browser, so I let it stay on the system for those rare times that I encounter an IE only site. Last week, IE8 Release Candidate 1 came out and I installed it as well. As far...