The Daily Six Pack: September 22, 2014

A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Double OneDrive Free Storage Limited time offer: Double your OneDrive free storage to 30 GB Other iOS8 3rd Party Keyboards Reviews - SwiftKey and Swype, Scott Hanselman Don't Check Your Email in the Morning, Scott…

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The Daily Six Pack: July 15, 2014

A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Destroy Programmer Productivity How to destroy Programmer Productivity, George Stocker Other i, j and k should die, Dave Bush Software Gardening - Storing Seeds (Software Branching Practices), Craig Berntson Async event loops in C#, Oren Eini…

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Destroying Programmer Productivity

There is much to be said for the programmer that can zone themselves out from all the noise in the office. I used to work with such a programmer. She would sit and code with her headphones on (not uncommon for most programmers), but what made Taryn unique was that she was very good at programming. She had her ‘thing’ down to a T, and would pump out excellent code in copious amounts of C# or Visual Basic on a daily basis. (more…)

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Visual Studio 2013 – Check Out Some Of The Great New Features

Visual Studio 2013 Code EditorVisual Studio 2013 Code Editor – The Preview has hit our developer shores, and I have to say that I am suitably impressed. The IDE looks great (You can change the colour of the IDE to one of a few colours) and the enhancements to the Code Editor are fabulous.

I thought I would take a closer look at some of these new features and post them here for your reference. If you want to read more, see the blogs of Brian Harry and Zain Naboulsi.

If you haven’t downloaded the Visual Studio 2013 Preview, head on over to the Visual Studio site and get the preview today. (more…)

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