Alex Hoffman

Random thoughts and ramblings

@safaribooks - not entirely happy with the new Safari Books Online UI

Simple things like adding an item to a Favorites folder will send the list back to the first page each time, not much fun if your trying to classify 15+ pages of Favorites.

Even paging through Favorites requires that on reaching the bottom of the list, I need to scroll pack to the top just to go to the next page.  Ever heard of putting a paging control on the bottom of a scrollable list as well as the top?

One third of the page on list pages is taken up by header, leaving room for little actual content.  I can manage to see only 5 Favorite titles out of my 74.

Was highly anticipated, but frankly I'm disappointed.  Found this in the first one minute of use - who knows what else awaits.

http://bit.ly/VZRx7

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Diagram - classification of cloud service providers

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Screen clipping from:  http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~lyouseff/CCOntology/CloudOntologyPres.pdf

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The diagram depicts their proposed classification of cloud service providers including Platform as a Service (PaaS), Infrastructure as a Service(IaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS).

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.NET4 features NGen twice as fast because supports multiproc, supports SxS and less fragile

  • NGen SxS: Making NGen work correctly when 2 major versions of the CLR are installed side-by-side
  • Multi-proc NGen: Enabling use of multiple cores/processors during NGen to make it faster
  • Targeted Patching: First step towards making NGen images less “fragile” – avoids having to recompile all managed assemblies when a FX dependency is patched
  • No NGen in partial trust: Deprecated support for generating and loading NGen images in partial trust applications
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MEF is included in .NET4 Client Profile

Includes new .NET 4  features (such as Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF), C# 4 Dynamic Keyword, etc)
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.NET4 Client Profile deployment size table

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MS recommends that .NET4 Client Profile rather than full framework be primary for WinForms and WPF apps

We recommend that the NET4 Client Profile be utilized as the primary framework for most client desktop applications (including Windows Forms and WPF apps).
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Reading Alcides Fonseca on Rails vs Django

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Spelunking C#4: supports mixed Type collections via "dynamic" keyword - new dynamic[] {1 , 2.058, "alex", DateTime.Now}; ...

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Windows 7 Hotkey List

General

Win+Up Maximize
Win+Down Restore / Minimize
Win+Left Snap to left
Win+Right Snap to right
Win+Shift+Left Jump to left monitor
Win+Shift+Right Jump to right monitor
Win+Home Minimize / Restore all other
windows
Win+T Focus the first taskbar entry
Pressing again will cycle through them, you can can arrow around.
Win+Shift+T cycles backwards.
Win+Space Peek at the desktop
Win+G Bring gadgets to the top of the Z-order
Win+P External display options (mirror, extend desktop, etc)
Win+X Mobility Center (same as Vista, but still handy!)
Win+#
(# = a number key)		 Launches a new instance of the application in the Nth
slot on the taskbar.
Example: Win+1 launches first pinned app, Win+2 launches second, etc.
Win + +
Win + –
(plus or minus key)		 Zoom in or out.

 

Explorer

Alt+P Show/hide Preview Pane

 

Taskbar modifiers
 

Shift + Click on
icon		 Open a new instance
Middle click on icon Open a new instance
Ctrl + Shift + Click on icon Open a new instance with Admin privileges
Shift + Right-click on icon Show window menu (Restore / Minimize / Move
/ etc)
Note: Normally you can just right-click on the window thumbnail to get
this menu
Shift + Right-click on grouped icon Menu with Restore All / Minimize All /
Close All, etc.
Ctrl + Click on grouped icon Cycle between the windows (or tabs) in the
group
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Mozilla's Raindrop appears built on Python, Twisted and CouchDB

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