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Is effort a myth? (97)
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People really want to believe effort is a myth, at least if we consider what we consume in the media: politicians and beauty queens who get by on a smile and a wink lottery winners who turn a lifetime of lousy jobs into one big payday sports stars who are born with skills we could never hope to acquire hollywood celebrities with the talent of being in the right place at the right time failed ...Shared by adang001 (37) Alan (19) Alex (31) Andrei (13) Anne McCrossan (10) Anthony (5) arsalan (44) B O (22) BeckyMcCray (22) Berkay (13) bobleckridge (25) brad robertson (8) Bradley (1) Brandon (81) Brandon J. Mendelson (174) Brett (18) Chris (37) Clayton B (24) Daniel C (36) Darin R. McClure (40) Darius (23) Derrik (96) Devlin D (28) DG (8) DHS (7) Dmitry Skavish (2) doransky (51) Dr. Ernie (37) Dustin DeKoekkoek (27) Ed Dale (20) Edward Vielmetti (19) elstudio (23) Fabian Neumann (26) Foghornboy (17) fyc (92) Gautam (65) grow (29) Henry Webb (20) Ivan Blatter (7) Jason Bedell (6) Jason Doucette (14) Javed (155) Jay (37) Joe (117) Joey Gibson (26) John-Michael Oswalt (30) Josh Chandler (48) keith (85) Keith Casey (1) Kevin (1) kgatgens (1) Kyle (21) Lee (9) Lenny (23) lizunlong (41) Lorand R. Minyo (17) Macky (21) Maggie Wolfe Riley (6) Marc (9) Mark (16) Mark Dykeman (57) Matt Gillooly (19) Michael (13) Michelle Krill (33) Miguel Cavalcanti (16) MrGuff (73) Nate (42) Neil Kirby (1) Nick (16) Nishant Modak (21) noahp (17) Peter Wooley (14) Philip (14) Preoccupations (55) Richard (10) rmorrell (62) Robert (72) Robert Scoble (112) rolandog (54) Sean O (3) Sean Oelkers (3) shivanand (23) Simmons (18) Stefft (1) Steve Olson (16) Stu Andrews (26) Sujay (5) theCan (16) Thongwane (5) TJ Stankus (12) tumbleweed (19) Vince (27) Vincent van Wylick (30) willdeluca (44) Xdroot (88) Yasin (4)Explore read six notes- Ed Dale said: He is right
- John-Michael Oswalt said: this has a good ending...
- Devlin D said: Very interesting take. For the most part I have to think that even the people that we consider "lucky" still had to expend effort in some way to get there. You don't get to be a CEO, even a failed one, without putting in work. Same with a beauty queen, actor, or athlete. Lottery winners are really the exception IMO.
- tumbleweed said: Good advice. I worry that I do too many of those bulleted items :-)
- Foghornboy said: Structure unstructured time to invest in yourself and others...
- Anthony said: I've got the fitness, blogging and self education parts down, almost there.
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The Curly Brace Tax (1)
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(I shamelessly stole this title from a chat with Matt Hinze) 99% of the examples you see out there for ASP.NET MVC are using WebFormsViewEngine. That's fine, it's familiar, it benefits from intellisense, compilation, and refactoring support. But all of that comes at a price, and that price is (at times) incredibly wordy. Picture this example, taken from the Site.master (master page) in the Preview 5 new project template. At the top of the page, ...Shared by Alan (19)Contribute comment -
Miscellanea: Just Like Me (1)
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Miscellanea: Just Like MeI'm in the process of trying to modernize my site by moving Miscellanea from my ghetto-style-1995-html-style site now, to a new, shiny subdomain running wordpress. You can check it out here, and subscribe to the new RSS here. Any feedback and suggestions welcome.Shared by Alan (19)Contribute comment -
VersionOne, Day Zero (2)
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I announced this on Twitter a while back, but I've left my full-time job at Xclaim to join VersionOne as their internal Agile Development Coach. I'll say, leaving Xclaim was kind of a bittersweet thing. I'm still a part owner of the business, which is nice, but it's the excellent team and practice we've forged together that I'll miss the most. I get really involved in my work and it was at 5:00pm on my ...Shared by Alan (19) ziqbalbh (20)Contribute comment -
Save your Kudos for your Annual Review (1)
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Over the last several years I’ve gotten into the habit of saving any “kudos” emails that get sent to me into a folder with the creative name of “Kudos”. I don’t know where I picked up this habit, but from time to time I’ve shared this tip with others. After letting Jose in on my little secret earlier today he suggested that I blog about it and share it with everyone. Good idea, Jose. Hopefully ...Shared by Alan (19)Contribute comment -
More on the sad state of print publishing for developers (5)
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People usually think of SourceGear as "Eric Sink's company", but that's only half true. My business partner Corey Steffen has the same ownership that I do -- he's just not as loud as I am. Because Corey is sort of quiet, most people don't know much about him. Here's a piece of information that I think is interesting: Corey is an amateur farmer on the side. Yep, Corey spends his days running a software company ...Contribute comment -
Favorite Developer Books : Steve Smith's Blog (3)
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I've written a few posts recently about various books, and recently while interviewing a candidate for Nimble Software Professionals it occurred to me that for an experienced developer (e.g. not a new grad out of college), asking what their favorite (or most recently read) programming book is could tell a lot about them as a developer. If their favorite book is something like Expert Programming in 21 Hours (not a real title) that paints a ...Contribute comment -
My MVC Starter Template (12)
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I've been toying around with reorganizing the default MVC template and thought I would share it with people. I like the way it's come together. ReorganizedWhen I was working heavily with Rails I came to really enjoy the way the applications are structured. It seemed... clean in the way all parts of the application had an especially relevant bucket to live in. I especially liked the way the application bits (logic, data access, controllers and ...Shared by Alan (19) Chris Vickerson (10) DamienG (19) Diego Guidi (20) dominik (9) ignu (24) Jesper (28) JøEh (20) Keyvan Nayyei (14) MasterMaq (33) Otto R. Radke (17) TiernanO (14)Contribute comment -
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- Eduardo Coutinho said: O universo observável, de cima para baixo. E em escala logarítmica.
- Brad P. from NJ said: A great perspective.
- Jen said: A diagram of the universe, on a logarithmic scale? I wish I had this as a poster on my wall growing up. :) (I love both the Eiffel Tower and redwood drawings.)
- K said: Lovely !!
- zar said: Che meraviglia...
- Patrick said: ahahhaha!
- Ed said: I call "dibs" on posting this outside my/Bryan's office door. :-)
- Andrew Walkingshaw said: XKCD has some genius infographics.
- Penny said: I would buy a print of this.
- Corvus said: I want this as a full sized door poster for my office.
- mwsmedia said: I can haz poztur, pleeze?
- Andreas said: I can haz poster plz?
- Typo180 said: Just outstanding.
- Steve said: Tall tale
- rishabh said: i can see this one being shared some thousand times. Awesome!!!
- Bruce said: This version is funner than a similar but less fanciful graph I saw awhile back online.
- BuildMaster said: really cool, as per usual
- easyon said: WOOPYTHON!
- Jason Wojciechowski said: That's really good. Really good.
- Nicholas Schiller said: Yet another example of how amazing XKCD can be.
- Ryan Cahoon said: I love this type of his comics best; when he crams so much stuff in.
- focoma said: "It is quite futile to argue that man is small compared to the cosmos; for man was always small compared to the nearest tree." -G.K. Chesterton
- booyaa said: a beautiful illustration with a fantastic twist
- Smal said: познавательно
- Heather said: Ohhh so here's where the WMDs were hiding. Chock-full of awesome.
- Debbie said: Dear Lord, But I Want This On a Poster For My Cubicle SOOO BADLY.
- Chris said: I want this as a poster. What an awesome work of art!
- Carl said: EVEN IF you've already seen it, check the img alt text!Best XKCD in a while anyway.
- Berkay said: fantastic!
- hronir said: Interestingly, on a true vertical log plot, I think the Eiffel Tower's sides really would be straight lines.
- Andrew M said: it's stuff like this that makes XKCD the best webcomic ever.
- Jeff said: awesome xkcd (including ford prefect)
- Will said: This is fantastic. Can I get this in a poster?
- crispy said: This is really neat but he missed the other half that starts at 1' and goes smaller.
- pilgrimjohn said: Awesome
- munir said: I love me some log scales nerdery.
- Edgar Gonçalves said: Undoubtedly one of the finest xkcd strips. Now really, what are the odds of the person thinking about this kind of stuff being the same that actually can draw it?
- chills said: This is actually pretty cool...
- James F said: This is actually pretty cool.
- Fernando said: This is absolutely fantastic!
- afreytes said: xkcd should be a synonym for awesome
- clickykbd said: nearly the best XKCD EVAR. I want a poster.
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$("Microsoft").append("excitement"); (1)
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I don't know about you, but I can say with certainty that I am excited again about the Microsoft platform. With today's announcement that they are going to be making jQuery a core part of the Microsoft development platform I can finally say that I think they are "getting it". Or at least Scott Guthrie and DevDiv gets it. I think that the last time I felt this excited about working on the Microsoft platform ...Shared by Alan (19)Contribute comment -
Simplicity is key to successful unit testing (3)
onAs of late, I've been spending a lot of time writing unit tests for a complex application. In doing so, I've also been working hard to refine my skill of writing effective unit tests. I realize that to make my tests robust, I have to keep my unit tests as well as the code under tests as simple as possible. This also led to a higher quality in code coverage. Robustness is vitally important for ...Contribute comment
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What is the Managed Extensibility Framework? (2)
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It's not an IoC container, It's not MAF, it's not the Managed Entity Framework either :-) So what is it? There has been no shortage of discussion on this very topic since MEF was first announced. Quite simply, MEF makes building extensible apps, libraries and frameworks easy. It shares some common characteristics of other frameworks out there, but it also addresses a whole new set of problems that arise in building extremely large scalable extensible ...Contribute comment -
Using StructureMap 2.5 to inject your Entity objects into Services (1)
onForget the neverending argument on the ALT.NET list about whether or not it’s acceptable to inject services into an Entity object (for the record, I say “no way”). What if you want to go the other way around? What if you want to request a service or a view or a command of some kind and have an Entity injected into the service/view/command? You’ve now got (at least) 2 ways to do that in StructureMap. ...Shared by Alan (19)Contribute comment
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Clean build server with MSTest == FAIL (1)
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It is no secret that I am not a fan of MSTest (read here for more rants on MSTests). Today's rant is about how MSTest does not allow you to have a clean build server. Yea I know what you are thinking, here comes another long winded rant on MSTest. Well this should not be too long winded, and hey, it is my blog and I can rant if I want to :). This week ...Shared by Alan (19)Contribute comment -
Refreshing ASP.NET Dynamic Language Support (3)
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This afternoon we released a refresh of our DLR/IronPython support for ASP.NET, now called “ASP.NET Dynamic Language Support”, on our CodePlex site. This was originally part of our July 2007 ASP.NET Futures package, along with several other features. As updates to these features were made available, we would have liked to remove them from the package, but we wanted to wait till everything within the package was updated. Well that time has come. This CodePlex ...Contribute comment -
Delegate Type Inference in C# (1)
onToday I saw some C# language syntax that made me think, "hey, wait a minute, I didn't know you could do that!", so perhaps it'll be new to someone else too. Honestly, I don't know how I missed this memo. Let's start off with the code, then we'll talk about it. I'll including some additional lambda stuff here for the fun of it. Sample code project: DelegateTypeInference.zip 1 using System; 2 using System.Threading; 3 using ...Shared by Alan (19)Contribute comment
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Modern JavaScript Development: Scope | Lazycoder (3)
permalinkAfter hearing an interview Scott Hanselman did with Scott Cate about JavaScript a while ago, I decided to use one of my presentations into a screen cast. In this two-part screen cast, I cover how scope works in JavaScript and how we can use object literal notation to fake namespaces. Making JavaScript Less Painful part 1 Making JavaScript Less Painful part 2 I’m still finding my way around screencasts. Eventually I’ll upload these to vimeo, ...
