Links for 2007-07-30

Blog:

1. Jerry Seinfeld's productivity secret
• A habit to success

Article:

1. Lightweight Web servers

Links for 2007-07-22

News

1. True random number generator goes online
• "the 'Quantum Random Bit Generator' (QRBG121), which is the engine for QRBGS, is a fast non-deterministic random bit (number) generator whose randomness relies on intrinsic randomness of the quantum physical process of photonic emission in semiconductors and subsequent detection by photoelectric effect".

Sample Chapter

1. Foundations of F#
   
• Chapter 1 - Introduction
  

Links for 2007-07-18

Article

1. 10 Rules for IT Job Success
• The key to success is 'positive thinking'.
  

Links for 2007-07-17

Blogs

1. Internal Code Reuse Considered Dangerous
2. Is your code worthless?
• Don't reinvent the wheel but is "Microsoft Data Application Blocks" reinventing the wheel?
  

Links for 2007-07-15

Articles:

• Evidence-based management
• Evidenced-Based Management - Business Wisdom, Part I,
  
• Evidenced-Based Management - Business Wisdom, Part 2
• EBM can seem to be summarized as a practice which "... is obsessed with driving "strategy" from the results of rigorous research - finding and judging the evidence - then measuring and evaluating that strategy in action, making modifications as indicated".
  

Links for 2007-07-09

MSDN Articles

• System.AddIn namespace in Visual Studio Orcas
• CLR Inside Out: .NET Application Extensibility
• CLR Inside Out: .NET Application Extensibility, Part 2
• I think the key to understand the mechanism is to understand the interaction between the components, as described in the following paragraph,
  

  ..., it first creates the AppDomain that the add-in is going to run in and then loads the add-in, add-in view, add-in side adapter, and contract assembly into the newly created domain. ... Next, the system instantiates the add-in with its default constructor and the add-in adapter and passes the add-in, typed as the add-in base, to the adapter's constructor. Then it passes the add-in adapter across the AppDomain boundary typed as its contract, loads the host-side-adapter assembly, and instantiates an instance of the host adapter, passing the add-in adapter, typed as the contract, to its constructor. Finally, it returns the host-side-adapter to the host, typed as the host add-in view.
  

• CLR Add-In Team Blog
  

Sample Chapter

• Beautiful Code
• Chapter 4 - Finding Things : The author demonstrated text searching technique using regular expression in Ruby and binary search algorithm in Java.