juli 2009 - Posts

• Save and restore desktop icon layout

  I have a clean desk(top) policy, so I only have a minimal amount of icons on my desktop. But I'm one of a few, so here's a handy tip if you want to save/restore your icon layout quickly. For instance, this can be useful when you just connected to a beamer which has a lower resolution, and your icons are messed up. Posted jul 22 2009, 11:13 by Jo-wen with no comments

• Agile: Embrace Pain

  Here's a must-read blog post that Ian Cooper wrote. It beautifully captures the goal of Agile. I personally like this statement: "Being agile hurts"   read the follow up post as well Posted jul 17 2009, 12:11 by Jo-wen with no comments

• Entity Framework Tips

  Here's another useful link with tips about EF, written by on of the program managers. Most of the tips revolve about EF today, some of them are related to the upcoming release.   Just to give you an idea, here are the latest tips: Tip 26 – How to avoid database queries using Stub Entities Tip 25 – How to Get Entities by key the easy way Tip 24 – How to get the ObjectContext from an Entity Tip 23 – How to fake Enums in EF 4 Tip 22 - How to make Include really Include Posted jul 15 2009, 11:16 by Jo-wen with no comments Filed under: Entity Framework