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January 26th, 2010

Brain Rules — A Physical Activity is a Cognitive Candy.

January 23rd, 2010

Brain Rules

Brain Rules, written by John Medina is a fascinating book about human brains with practical 12 rules about them. John’s web site, BrainRules.net has nice media materials for these 12 rules as shown below:

SharePoint 2010 Installation Guidelines

December 29th, 2009

SharePoint 2010 Training Kit

December 29th, 2009
  • Sharepoint 2010 Beta Developer Training Kit – The SharePoint 2010 Beta Developer Training Kit provides developers with deep guidance on how to develop for SharePoint 2010. Through PowerPoint decks, Hands-On Labs, Source Code, and Instructor-Led Videos, the developer kit walks you through an array of important developer topics–including Developer Roadmap, Visual Studio tooling, Workflow, Business Connectivity Services, and much, much more.):
  • SharePoint 2010 training courses for developers: SharePoint training courses at Channel 9 

How to Enable Sleep Mode in Windows 2008 R2 with Hyper-V

November 29th, 2009

Sleep mode is essential for both laptop and a home PC because it preserves my work state and because there is a huge cost saving (about $5 to $10/mo for a home PC) by putting an idle PC to a sleep mode instead of leaving it turned on. The problem is when Hyper-V is enabled, this handy sleep mode is disabled.

I installed Windows 2008 R2 on my laptop and my home PC to use Hyper-V, but I noticed that once Hyper-V is enabled, I can use sleep mode anymore. After a long research, I found a workaround from this article. As the article suggests, a workaround is to install Hyper-V role but not to start it by editing the registry setting in Windows 2008 R2 as follows:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\hvboot]“Start”=dword:00000003

With the above setting, I was able to put my laptop and my home PC to sleep mode. When I need to use Hyper-V, I can simply run the following command:

net start hvboot

As the article suggests, once Hyper-V is enabled, power management will be disabled until the next reboot. For me, this turned out to be a reasonable workaround.

Need idea? Try Random Stimulus Technique!

November 27th, 2009

Use the Random Stimulus technique to generate solution ideas:

Book: Agile Technologies in Open Source Development

September 20th, 2009

Title: Agile Technologies in Open Source Development
Author: Barbara Russo, Marco Scotto, Alberto Sillitti and Giancarlo Succi
My Rating: 4 stars (out of 5)

This books starts with showing the commonality between agile technologies and the open source development, and it shows the various types of agile technologies such as SCRUM, XP, Crystal, etc. What I liked about this book are summed up as:

  • introduction of anlytic techniques such as Pareto Analysis
  • scientific data and mathematical analysis of activities in the agile technologies in open source development
  • holistic view of agile techniques from software industry including project management, requirement gathering, maturity model and trend
  • real examples such as case studies, technical tools and lots of data

This is an expensive book with a price tag of $180.00 according to Amazon. I was lucky to read this books through books24×7.com electronically.

Habit: Failing to Give Proper Recognition

August 22nd, 2009

“Recognition is all about closure. It’s the beautiful ribbon wrapped around the jewel box that contains the precious gift of success you and your team have created. When you fail to provide that recognition, you are cheapening the gift. You have the success but none of the afterglow.”
- Mark Reiter

Blogging Tool – Windows Live Writer

July 31st, 2009

Okay. I just published a blog post using Windows Live Writer, and I was surprised that it was so easy to use – I copied and pasted an image to Windows Live Writer, wrote a sentence, ran a spell-checker and clicked Publish button. That’s it. This tool integrates perfectly with WordPress.

Screenshots of Visual Studio 2010

July 31st, 2009

I just installed Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 in my Virtual Machine. Here are couple of screenshots.

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[Picture 2 – New Project]