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Curly Brace Placement

I've been writing code with curly braces for a dozen years or so, starting with C++ in college, then JavaScript for many, many years, and for the last few years, C#. In all that time, I have been a fan of putting the opening curly brace on the same line as the declaration or control statement...

Posted to Tap My Mind - Scott Isaacs (Weblog) by sisaacs on 08-06-2008
GiveCamp MKE

I'm very excited to announce that we are planning the first ever GiveCamp in the Milwaukee area: GiveCamp MKE . In fact, it's one of the first GiveCamps anywhere. "What's a GiveCamp?", you ask. In short, it is an opportunity for developers, designers, DBAs, project managers...

Posted to Tap My Mind - Scott Isaacs (Weblog) by sisaacs on 08-05-2008
I Am Excited About... A Conference Call?

For the first time since -- ummm -- since ever, I am looking forward to an upcoming conference call. And I'm really looking forward to it. I don't want to say too much, yet, because I want to get some very basic details ironed out first, but I will say that it is about a special project...

Posted to Tap My Mind - Scott Isaacs (Weblog) by sisaacs on 07-22-2008
Testing PreCode

I'm using this post to test PreCode -- a code snippet formatting plugin for Windows Live Writer. It uses SyntaxHighlighter on the client side and this plugin just sends the needed code to my blog engine. As a test I thought I'd just add a couple short snippets, using some of the different...

Posted to Tap My Mind - Scott Isaacs (Weblog) by sisaacs on 07-16-2008
TimeSnapper

I've been using the free version of TimeSnapper off and on for some time now, but pretty regularly over the last few weeks since I started my new job. I'm doing billable work again, and am notoriously bad at getting my time entered. TimeSnapper helps by taking screenshots at some...

Posted to Tap My Mind - Scott Isaacs (Weblog) by sisaacs on 07-13-2008
Office Communicator Hotkey

Anyone know if there is a way to remove the Windows-Q hotkey from Office Communicator? That is my hotkey of choice for one of my favorite utilities (SlickRun). With Communicator "stealing" this hotkey, I've had to map SlickRun to Windows-W instead, which causes a lot of confusion...

Posted to Tap My Mind - Scott Isaacs (Weblog) by sisaacs on 07-11-2008
Community Coding Contest

This is pretty exciting. Chris Pietschmann , an MVP, a friend of mine, a committee member of the WI .NET Users Group , developer of Virtual Earth controls , and an independent consultant I have worked with in the recent past, has three MSDN Premium Subscriptions to give away, and he is having a...

Posted to Tap My Mind - Scott Isaacs (Weblog) by sisaacs on 06-26-2008
.NET Micro Framework

Just got a book in the mail from Amazon: Embedded Programming with the Microsoft .NET Micro Framework . It was only about $6 from the "Used and New" section of alternate sellers. An upcoming project at work is currently planned for Compact Framework, but, if my limited understanding is...

Posted to Tap My Mind - Scott Isaacs (Weblog) by sisaacs on 04-17-2008
Fox Valley Day of .NET

Tomorrow (Saturday) is the first ever Fox Valley Day of .NET in Appleton, WI. I'm planning to attend, and if you're anywhere in the area, and are a software developer, I'd recommend you go as well. They have a good looking lineup of speakers and sessions , and I'm looking...

Posted to Tap My Mind - Scott Isaacs (Weblog) by sisaacs on 03-14-2008
Stop Thinking Like A Programmer

Gerry recently posted an interesting article about the mindsets of software developers and software companies. We had talked about this same topic on the phone for a while a couple days ago. The same phrase that jumped out at me then also jumped out at me while reading his post: Stop Thinking...

Posted to Tap My Mind - Scott Isaacs (Weblog) by sisaacs on 03-14-2008

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