Tech Review: Management: Friday, August 25, 2012

Listening to Complainers Is Bad for Your Brain

http://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/listening-to-complainers-is-bad-for-your-brain.html

• Minda Zetlin

21 Skills That Pay Top Dollar – Without Certification

• Big Data
• Apache Hadoop including HBase and Hive
• Apache Cassandra
• Apache CouchDB
• MapReduce
• Redis
• MongoDB
• MySQL/MySQL Cluster
• Predictive/Prescriptive Analytics and Modeling
• Complex Event Processing/Event Correlation
• Mobile Apps
• Risk Management and the Rest
• WebLogic and WebSphere for SOA
• VMware
• TOGAF (EA from The Open Group)
• ITIL V2 and V3
• Risk Assessment/Risk Management
• Change Management

Tech Review: Management: Monday, July 16, 2012

The End of Middle Managers (And Why They'll Never Be Missed)

http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidkwilliams/2012/07/10/the-end-of-middle-managers-and-why-theyll-never-be-missed/

• Leader not managers
• Department Captains
• paired leadership
• teams
• Don't come to me with problems
• no managing through fear

Tech Review: Computer Programming: Monday, July 16, 2012

http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Reference-5th-Herbert-Schildt/dp/0071634800/ref=dp_ob_title_bk

• Still not available

Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 Release Candidates available now!

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2012/05/31/visual-studio-2012-and-net-4-5-release-candidates-available-now.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/async.aspx

C# 5.0 in a Nutshell: The Definitive Reference [Paperback] ($26)

http://www.amazon.com/C-5-0-Nutshell-Definitive-Reference/dp/1449320104/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1342468890&sr=1-1&keywords=C%23+5.0

• The only good looking C# 5.0 book I see.

Programming C# 5.0: Building Windows 8 Metro, Web, and Desktop Applications for the .NET 4.5 Framework [Paperback] ($30)

http://www.amazon.com/Programming-5-0-Building-Applications-Framework/dp/1449320414/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1342468890&sr=1-3&keywords=C%23+5.0

• pre-order

C++ The Complete Reference, 5th Edition [Paperback] (email notificaton)

http://www.amazon.com/The-Complete-Reference-5th-Edition/dp/0071634800/ref=dp_ob_title_bk

Tech Review Software: Thursday, June 21, 2012

Google paying $0 in statutory damages as Oracle plans appeal

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/google-paying-0-in-statutory-damages-as-oracle-plans-appeal/80407?tag=nl.e550

Indian outsourcing: Why skills shortages persist despite the graduate glut

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/cio-insights/indian-outsourcing-why-skills-shortages-persist-despite-the-graduate-glut/39748897?tag=nl.e550

Tech Review Programming: Thursday, June 22, 2012

Regex Tester

http://regexpal.com/

Start of String and End of String Anchors

http://www.regular-expressions.info/anchors.html

Special Characters

http://www.regular-expressions.info/characters.html

Word Boundaries

http://www.regular-expressions.info/characters.html

Tech Review C#: Thursday, June 14, 2012

Interfaces (C# Programming Guide)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms173156.aspx

• can't declare if public in interface only in implementation.
• VS doesn't explicitly give the interface public when generating from an interface

Cast int to Enum in C#

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29482/cast-int-to-enum-in-c-sharp

Tech Review Software Development: Monday, June 11, 2012

Scratch

http://scratch.mit.edu/

• A way to teach children programming

Sikuli:  Usable for GUI Testing

http://sikuli.org/

• nice open source package
• Mark point this out to me
• Could this be used for malware?

http://www.autoitscript.com/site/autoit/

• Used by Big Buttons in FV