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Home office with how many screens?

This is obviously what happens when you get really serious about technology like Mr Hanselman and want to work remotely… The post Home office with how many screens? appeared first on Codebureau - Matt...

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Scheduled Shutdown and Wake Up (on LAN) – Part 2

After the first post I’ve been doing a bit of experimenting with my work machine (new) and also at home (old).  We’re all grown ups here so I’m not going to include many screen shots.  Hibernate seems...

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TDD Anti-Patterns

I Like this.  Have seen most of them (and probably been guilty of a few a while ago…) I suggested a couple of others… How about the ‘Stealth Bomber’. This is probably an extreme extension of the Hidden...

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Do Web Sites need to look exactly the same in every browser?

It’s on the internet so it must be right http://dowebsitesneedtolookexactlythesameineverybrowser.com/ Does that mean I can go home now?   …but seriously, it does make you stop and think a little and...

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Top 10 Application Design Mistakes

Got sent this from a usability guy I sit next to.  Looks very interesting and a lot rings true.   The post Top 10 Application Design Mistakes appeared first on Codebureau - Matt Simner.

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How do you ‘rate’ a developer or team lead?

Just going through some old notepads from previous employment and found a table that I’d come up with to ‘rate’ all the developers in the department (I was a team lead there at the time – I also rated...

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Visual Studio Documentation – Have your say

Brad A’s just been highlighting the MSDN Survey to get opinions on how Visual Studio and MSDN documentation works (or doesn’t) for people.  I added my 2c and it made me think a little about how I...

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Getting into IT? – Get into Usability

I’ve been tailed by a graduate this week (who’s very switched on), and in talking to him it became apparent that as part of his rotation activities he’d been sitting in on some usability testing and...

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Questions every team and dev lead should ask themselves

Pearls of wisdom from Roy Osherove.  I’ve had a similar list in the past so this is a great reminder to ‘keep improving’. The post Questions every team and dev lead should ask themselves appeared first...

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Triangle of Happiness – Rate your job satisfaction

Something that’s interested me for a long time is what makes people tick, as far as motivational factors in the workplace. We all spend a long time in our respective workplaces, and how you measure...

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