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Hi Rajesh-ji,
I think Skeet is the top-guru for C#, and the man can write clean expository prose made vivid by his wry sense of humor. I think he has a remarkable, rare, gift for sensing when the reader might be confused by content and speaking "out of the book" directly to the reader.
I read, and re-read, the new version of "C# in Depth," learning something new every time.
After Skeet, I like Andrew Troelsen.
bill
Google CEO, Erich Schmidt: "I keep asking for a product called Serendipity. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections." 2004, USA Today interview
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Thanks, Bill-Ji. I'll look up books from Andrew Trolsen too and add it to my to read list.
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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#7 means nothing to me.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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WTE were they smoking when they compiled that list?
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Don't know, but I'll bet you can find it in Mexico
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Charleston, SC??? I live not far from there and a couple of weeks had to make a trip there and I couldn't wait to get out of there. I though it was a real shithole but maybe I was in the non-tourist section.
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Why Luton is missing?
Veni, vidi, vici.
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'cos they were not *that* drunk while compiling the list.
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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Okay I've been to Luton and I've been that drunk. Hell, I've been that drunk in Luton, but it still won't make the list...
speramus in juniperus
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Even a list of the 20 best cities in Bedfordshire wouldn't include that dump!
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Would that it were.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Whoa, I almost sharted myself when I saw that list. Almost.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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I'm not sure why you're so excited about Florence winning big.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I have been to Flo, but it is nothing compared to Buda.
speramus in juniperus
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Luxemberg.
THat list is bollocks. Its more a 'best city to go holidaying in' rather than work in.
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I can't see you on that photo...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is (V).
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A grizzled old man was eating in a truck stop when three very large, leathered bikers walked in.
The first walked up to the old man, pushed his cigarette into the old man's pie and then took a seat at the counter. The second walked up to the old man, spat into the old man's milk and then he too took a seat at the counter. The third walked up to the old man, turned over the old man's plate, and took a seat at the counter. Without a word of protest, the old man quietly left the diner.
Shortly thereafter, one of the bikers said to the waitress, "Not much of a man, was he?" The waitress replied, "Not much of a truck driver either. He just backed up his big-rig over three motorcycles."
/ravi
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An old one, but still amusing.
Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.
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Classic joke. Reminds me a bit of my father-in-law, who drove a truck for a living. The only difference is that Bill would have beat the crap out of the bikers, dragged them outside, and then run over their bikes while they watched.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I'm looking into any courses that will help improve my skills as a developer, and ideally show that I am continously working on my education and learning. I was looking at the Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer [^], however it seems to have changed quite a bit from the previous Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD). Any recommendations?
I currently code using the microsoft stack, C# ASP.Net 4, Web Forms and looking to start there.
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer)
www.simonshugar.co.uk
"If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil
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This course[^] was very interesting, but might not be your area of interest. Best course I ever followed, even if I include everything I did in university. You'd have to wait till next year if you want a certificate.
A course on C# or WinForms sounds lame to me. I like them, but not for a course, which would most likely be the most boring course ever.
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I'd love to do the new Microsoft solutions developer, which is based around ASP.Net MVC, but I'm learning MVC in my spare time, once I free up some spare time.
SQL Performance / Optimization I'd be intrigued in.
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer)
www.simonshugar.co.uk
"If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil
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Why is that? Not everybody has your massive amounts of C# and WinForms knowledge.
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