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Scott Hanselman
2/17/2010
After I made my Webcam Cart and blogged about it a package I'd forgotten about arrived. It was a cheap " Zeikos ZE-WA37S 37mm 0.45X Wide Angle Lens ." Only $10. I've looked all over for wide-angle webcams and they just don't exist. Over the counte...
Sometimes I wish development were as easy as telling junior guys to "follow this one metric ", and then they write perfect code. However, it's not. One example is how to know when you've written enough unit tests . Code Coverage is the obvious met...
Scott Hanselman
2/17/2010
As a remote worker I'm always looking to find better ways to work with the team that don't involve actually going to Seattle. As much as I love/hate Microsoft, I'm not moving. However, this always puts me at a disadvantage. There's only so many pl...
Scott Hanselman
2/16/2010
My TWO-HUNDREDTH podcast is up . It's show 200, and we've got Jon Skeet . Jon writes Java at Google, but he's also got a new book out called C# in Depth, Second Edition. Jon is also well-known for his answers on StackOverflow, gaining him the titl...
Here is a link to the home page: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/FinancialFunctions/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Home
DevTopics C# 411
2/16/2010
The Release Candidate (RC) for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 is now available to the public. The biggest change from Beta 2 is a major improvement to Visual Studio performance, specifically as it relates to loading solutions, typing, ...
[In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu ] Last week I blogged about an intellisense crashing issue that is unfortunately in the VS 2010 RC. Crash Symptom If you...
A bit about my RIA Services talk at MIX10... let me know what you'd like to see. [ Full post continued here... ]
My crazy agent framework now works with RC: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/LAgent
Fabulous Adventures In Coding
2/15/2010
I was browsing the archive of design notes from the early days of the C# language the other day. Apparently whomever was editing the notes back then had a sense of humour: I stumbled across this note from May 1999: We considered a proposal to rena...