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01 Jun 2016 09:03

The talk is a bit old, but this does not mean that its not actual!

It's not what you read, it's what you ignore - Video of Scott Hanselman's Personal Productivity Tips.

I've done a number of talks on Productivity in the past. Lots of folks ask me what my tips are for being productive. I've taken all those tips as well as tips from Kathy Sierra, Stephen Covey, David Allen, The Pomodoro Technique and many more and aggregated them into a system that works well for me. I talk about how to effectively handle large amounts email, sorting your personal data stream, how to conserve your keystrokes, the "one email rule" that you need to be effective

I'm giving this talk in a few places in the coming months like StirTrek in Ohio, DevCon in Russia, and possibly "That Conference" in Wisconsin. If you will be attending one of these events, you might want to wait and see it in person. ;)

There's a few jokes in the beginning of the talk that refer back to some discussion about Gamification and a funny back and forth that Kathy Sierra and I had. If they don't make sense, that's the context.

https://vimeo.com/39020426

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19 May 2016 16:32

Redis running on an entry level laptop can scan a 1 million key database in 40 milliseconds... Sounds nice -> we decided to use Redis as a cache service on production. No issues for now, its durable and fast, has various administration abilities within single server(console/web interface where you can actually manage your saved data). You can consider the technology too, here is the entry level article for .NET developers on how to start: http://tostring.it/2015/03/05/all-you-need-to-know-about-redis/ . There is even StackExchange's wrapper for that thing: http://blog.marcgravell.com/2014/03/so-i-went-and-wrote-another-redis-client.html . Also here is the book for getting you started fast and nicely with understanding of key differences/similarities between several popular databases with different concepts inside: https://pragprog.com/book/rwdata/seven-databases-in-seven-weeks

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21 May 2016 12:50

Yay, useful open text editor added useful feature! Notepad++ had tail function now: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/notepad-6.9.2-released.html

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03 May 2016 20:02

Microsoft is bringing a very large scale redesign to old MSDN-like documentation pages! Here is the article with explanations of the decisions made: https://docs.microsoft.com/teamblog/introducing-docs-microsoft-com/