Top 5 – Group Writing Project Day 2
There were 242 submissions on the second day.
Here is my entry.
Here are the ones I read:
- Top 5 Resources Domain Owners Shouldn’t Live Without
- 5 Mistakes Made by Beginning Programmers
- Spanking The Adsense Monkey
- The Top 5 Keys to Managing Adult ADD
- The Top 5 Strangest Things I’ve Learned While Blogging
- Top-Five Wedding Planning Blunders
- My Five Top Firefox Plugins
- Top 5 Affordable Hobbies: Big fun on a little budget.
- Five Games You Need To Play To Live Well
- Top 5 Ways a Blog Can Earn You Money
- If Only I Could Read Just 5 Blogs!
- Top 5 Tools Every Blogger Should Use
..and here are the ones I subscribed to.
Top 5 blog project Day 1
Here are the articles I actually read through today:
- Definitive Guide for Geeks to Time Pass at Work
- My Top 5 Favourite WordPress Blogging Tools
- My Top 5 File Compression Software
- Top 5: Mid-Life Myths
- The top 5 freeware PC utilities
- Top 5 Reasons Freelancing is a Bad Idea
- Top Five Search Engine Optimization Myths
- Top 5 Surprises from a previous DIY’er
- Top 5 WordPress Tips
… and I subscribed to : Top 5 Tips Writing for Blogs and Rob’s Blog: Advice for Bloggers
Here are all the entries for day 1.
New releases of logview4net
There’s been a hectic couple of weeks. I’ve made three releases in two and a half week so the version number is ahead of the calendar. I finally got some response from users so I’m very inspired to make logview4net even better.
Please go here to download.
The latest changes are:
7.20
Added some command line configuration. Documented in the help file.
Made it possible to associate the .l4n extension with logview4net
7.19
Fixed: [1711956] When changing Poll timeout, settings not saved
7.18
RssListener moved to core.
StdOutListener moved to core (needs some more testing to go live)
FolderListener moved to core.
Fixed: The buttons in the config-form moves out of range when there are lots of listeners
Fixed & Handled: SecuritExceptions in EventLogListener on Vista
There is now a manifetst embedded that elevates the application then
it starts. I have also added some error handling to fail a bit nicer
on most exceptions in the EventlogListener
Fixed: [1698479] When loading configuration, actions are lost
Trying to parse font size as int
Added security elevation to the manifest file to make the app run with admin rights in Vista.
FileListener moved to core.
UdpListener moved to core.
Fixed: Make the installer know about .NET 2.0
Fixed bug when the program tried to look for updates and had no connection.
My top 5 free development tools
- Visual Studio Express Editions
The free editions of Visual Studio are just fantastic. If you’re developing for Windows they are the best free IDE:s out there.
TortoiseSVN
Lets you use Subversion from Explorer. It doesn’t get much easier than that. With OpenSVN you have no excuse to program without source control.
Testdriven.NET
Run your unit tests from within Visual Studio. You don’t have to release buggy code because you are using free tools.
NSIS
The easy way to create install programs for your projects.
FreeMind
Keep track of your ideas and all the things you need to do.
This is my entry for the Top 5 – Group Writing Project
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Stale software teams
It is quite interesting to see how developers are affected by a projects perceived market value and internal company status.
When a new project is started people are usually open for new ideas and most of the involved does things to move the project forward. A direction that is not allways the same for an individual as the group, but at least it’s moving.
When the project has been going for a while and it hasn’t delivered as planned, decisions might be made to rewrite parts of the system, partly to show the market that it is able to adapt and partly to get the staff moving again. At this point those developers that usually are in the lead of getting things done starts looking for other jobs.
The only ones left are those who don’t get things going by them selfs and a few high spirited still believing in the project. So now all those that should bring some forward momentum to the project, managers, architects and so on, are the kind of people that prefer status quo, and the few still inspired has to fight to get anything done and to try to inspire all the rest.
If all of those high spirited people has found other jobs management might bring in external resources to develop the new functionality. This will make the crisis even worse since the employees now will think that all inspiring activities are done by overpaid consultants, which makes them even more resigned and uninspired.
If the perception that the organization will continue to finance the project gets hold the project will also get the staff from other departments that would like to do their eight hours a day without involvement.
This is a mess that it is hard to get out of. It is not easy to hire an inspired commited developer to a stale team like this without tricking him in some way, and that will only make him quit asap. I think management has to create more or less fictive goals so that the staff can see results. Management will also have to convert some of the staff to evangelists within the team so that they can motivate all others.
No more Pandora for me :(
Today I got an email from pandora telling me that I can’t use their service due to licensing issues.
I think the record industry is doing a huge mistake here. Pandora has influenced me into buying records the last year more than anything else.
You can read more about it at Techdirt.
New release of logview4net
I just made a new release of logview4net.
It is only a bug fix release. There are no new functions.
Managing several AssemblyInfo files in Visual Studio
When you have more than one project in your visual Studio Solution you often get in trouble because the information in all AssemblyInfo file is almost identical.
Here is a tips on how to use Visual Studio to manage a central file with the information that should be shared across project and project specific AssemblyInfo files.
Roland Weigelt : GhostDoc 2.0.0 Released
I’m trying hard to not make this blog a place where I drop links, but some tools I just can’t ignore.
GhostDoc 2.0 has been released:
Roland Weigelt : GhostDoc 2.0.0 Released
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