Live a day with your five senses and your brain at full speed.
January 26th, 2010Brain Rules — A Physical Activity is a Cognitive Candy.
January 23rd, 2010Brain 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:
- EXERCISE | Rule #1: Exercise boosts brain power.
- SURVIVAL | Rule #2: The human brain evolved, too.
- WIRING | Rule #3: Every brain is wired differently.
- ATTENTION | Rule #4: We don’t pay attention to boring things.
- SHORT-TERM MEMORY | Rule #5: Repeat to remember.
- LONG-TERM MEMORY | Rule #6: Remember to repeat.
- SLEEP | Rule #7: Sleep well, think well.
- STRESS | Rule #8: Stressed brains don’t learn the same way.
- SENSORY INTEGRATION | Rule #9: Stimulate more of the senses.
- VISION | Rule #10: Vision trumps all other senses.
- GENDER | Rule #11: Male and female brains are different.
- EXPLORATION | Rule #12: We are powerful and natural explorers.
SharePoint 2010 Installation Guidelines
December 29th, 2009SharePoint 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, 2009Sleep 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, 2009Use the Random Stimulus technique to generate solution ideas:
- random words: http://www.randomwordgenerator.com/websoftware.html
- random images: http://www.brainstorming.co.uk/onlinetools/randompicture.html
Book: Agile Technologies in Open Source Development
September 20th, 2009Title: 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, 2009Okay. 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, 2009I just installed Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 in my Virtual Machine. Here are couple of screenshots.
[Picture 1 – Start Page]
[Picture 2 – New Project]