The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code by Joel Spolsky

Have you ever heard of SEMA? It's a fairly esoteric system for measuring how good a software team is. No, wait! Don't follow that link! It will take you about six years just to understand that stuff. So I've come up with my own, highly irresponsible, sloppy test to rate the quality of a software team. The great part about it is that it takes about 3 minutes. With all the time you save, you can go to medical school. The Joel Test Do you use...

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Steve Jobs, Apple founder, dies

(CNN) -- Steve Jobs, the visionary in the black turtleneck who co-founded Apple in a Silicon Valley garage, built it into the world's leading tech company and led a mobile-computing revolution with wildly popular devices such as the iPhone, died Wednesday. He was 56. The hard-driving executive pioneered the concept of the personal computer and of navigating them by clicking onscreen images with a mouse. In more recent years, he introduced...

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Fix Firewall Setting to run SQL Server 2008

netsh The netsh.exe tool can be used by an administrator to configure and monitor Windows-based computers at a command prompt or using a batch file. By using the netsh tool, you can direct the context commands you enter to the appropriate helper, and the helper then performs the command. A helper is a Dynamic Link Library (.dll) file that extends the functionality of the netsh tool by providing configuration, monitoring, and support for one or more services, utilities, or protocols. All operating systems that support SQL Server have a firewall helper. Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 also have an advanced firewall helper called...

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The 20 best iPhone apps of 2011 for productive geeks

32Commentsmore +Email Print Add to Favorites Del.icio.us Digg Hacker News LinkedIn Reddit Technorati By Jason HinerSeptember 6, 2011, 11:42 PM PDTTakeaway: Jason Hiner offers his top picks for iPhone apps that can help you work smarter and improve your productivity. Mobile apps have become an embarrassment of riches for iPhone and Android. In a world with over 500,000 iPhone apps and over 250,000 Android apps, the toughest part is finding the most...

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Understanding ASP.NET View State

IntroductionMicrosoft® ASP.NET view state, in a nutshell, is the technique used by an ASP.NET Web page to persist changes to the state of a Web Form across postbacks. In my experiences as a trainer and consultant, view state has caused the most confusion among ASP.NET developers. When creating custom server controls or doing more advanced page techniques, not having a solid grasp of what view state is and how it works can come back to bite you. Web...

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