Concurrency and Coordination Runtime

Microsoft is developing library that is going to streamline concurrent programming. You can watch it and read about it The library is still a little bit messy for me but it seems to be interesting. Especially I like the idea that you can execute an action only when two or more values are available and you do not have to check it. The library will tell you when it happens. But once again API is not very handy and it needs to be improved.

Who is the best coder?

It's obvious - Poles
:)

Keep DRY

I hate "copy and paste" operation when I code. Today I found out what the official name of avoiding this activity is. DRY – Don’t Repeat Yourself.

The more questions you ask during interview the better job you get !!!

I do not agree with every single sentnece but I like in general Joel's point of view. If you want to hire me then especially pay attention to "Four Ways To Use The Joel Test" section ;);

Do not fix every single bug - that's true!!!

Surprisingly, it’s really true. We don’t live in perfect world and software isn’t going to be prefect. Obviously we don’t like war, poverty etc. but anyway our world seems to work and the same rule should be applied to our software because in fact it’s part of our world. More about this topic you can find on the website of very clever guy whose name is Eric Sink

Service Packs for Visual Studio .NET 2003 and 2005

What can I say, great move from Microsoft :). More about that here

IE embedded in Firefox

If you are big fan of Firefox then this extension is a must :) https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&id=1419