Archive for July, 2009

Save and restore desktop icon layout

I have a clean desk(top) policy, so I only have a minimal amount of icons on my desktop. But I'm one of a few, so here's a handy tip if you want to save/restore your icon layout quickly. For instance, this can be useful when you just connected to a beamer which has a lower [...]

Agile: Embrace Pain

Here's a must-read blog post that Ian Cooper wrote. It beautifully captures the goal of Agile. I personally like this statement: "Being agile hurts"   read the follow up post as well

Entity Framework Tips

Here's another useful link with tips about EF, written by on of the program managers. Most of the tips revolve about EF today, some of them are related to the upcoming release.   Just to give you an idea, here are the latest tips: Tip 26 – How to avoid database queries using Stub Entities [...]