7 Secrets of successful programmers

Recently I ran across this white paper for the successful programming. The quoted points are must be followed by a good programmer …

1. Code for human consumption
"It is one of the most pervasive misunderstandings in computing that the source code is for the computer's consumption. Computers work with low-level binary code, a series of impenetrable 1's and 0's or hexadecimal numbers, not the structured high level languages we code in. The reason that these languages were developed was to help the programmer."
2. Comment often and comment well
3. Layout code to increase legibility
4. Expect the unexpected and deal with it
"Before you open a file, make sure that the file is present. Before you set focus to a control, make sure that the control is visible and enabled. Try to work out what conditions could cause your code to fail and test for them before they cause the program to fall over."
5. Name your variables to aid readability
6. Keep your functions and subroutines simple
7. Scope functions and variables appropriately

Top 10 Best Presentations Ever

I found this link seems to be very interesting(best 10 presentations),

watch it when you find time.

Software Factory

The Microsoft web service software factory provides the patterns & guidance to develop scalable Service based applications using .NET. Read out all software factories from Microsoft.

IE 7 Beta 3 Gets Closer to the rivals

Microsoft released the IE 7 beta 3 to compete with rivals Firefox and opera. readout the article form eweek.

Microsoft made some fairly minor changes to IE Beta 3, based on feedback from testers of previous IE beta builds, company officials said. Among the changes:

An optional addition of an e-mail button back on the IE toolbar The ability to reorder tabs by dragging them The ability to scroll horizontally while zooming Automatic update of all RSS feeds simultaneously Increased user control in marking RSS feeds as "read" Improved compatibility with existing Web sites and applications through adjustments to IE 7 layout rendering bugs Inclusion of all IE security fixes made in Microsoft's June 13 Patch Tuesday update. Microsoft is still aiming to deliver the final version of the standalone IE 7.0 around the same time as Windows Vista is released to manufacturing, which is still fall 2006, according to Microsoft officials.

On the other side Firefox released the Beta 2

Upgrading to Windows Vista RC1 from XP

If you are upgrading from windows XP to Vista RC1 read out the test review from eweek’s magazine.

.NET 3.0 interoperability article from Computer World

XML is a key in most of the latest Microsoft software’s to achieve interoperability. Computer world article describes about how latest .NET framework 3.0 facilitates the interop for the WCF using XML.

"A key feature of WCF is that it separates the implementation of a communication channel and the channel itself. For a WCF-enabled system, this means that switching between SOAP messaging and a WCF-WCF binary channel is simply a matter of configuration after the channel is set up"