Stress tips for developers
Of course everybody likes the nice part of his job. I think the most appreciated moment is when a customer gets a solution which is for 100% meeting their requirements. A customer often talks about the things which are not good instead of talking about your good job. Of course because he/she is paying you and wants as most as possible for his money (you would also do?!).
If you showed a lot of commitment and worked 24/7 it could be hard if a customer is not as happy with a solution as you thought.
What makes it hard for most of us to handle those situations? The answer is quite easy. Developers are logical and analytic thinkers.
In our daily job, study and so on we're developing the left part of our brain: the logical and analytic part and not the right part: the emotional part.
The right part is the part we worked on in our child time. This is because a lot of us will say: "could I be a child again, then life would be much easier".
By the way: the most efficient way of learning is using or left and right half of our brain together. Best case is synchronizing them.
If you get into a stress situation remember the following quotes which will help you looking to the positive part and not the negative:
1) Faults do not exist in our lifecycle: only learning moments
2) Look to the things you have and not to the things you don't have (the glass is half full or half empty, a great difference)
3) Stress doesn't solve our problems. It only takes energy of today!
4) They who give up, will never know how close they were to their goal
5) It's not what you are, but who you are
6) It doesn't matter how often you fall, but how often you get up
7) Fear is critical for ideas!
8) My experience could be changed by changing my mind
9) It's not about what you do, but how you feel by doing it
10) Don't get f*cked up by things, but wonder yourself "why" this could happen
Try it, it worked for me! If you have other suggestions, please feel free to place a comment below.
Free Downloadable E-Book Offers from Microsoft Press MCP Flash Feb 2009
Reading the MCP Flash of February 2009 I came to the next three free e-book offers which are a great way to stay up to date on the latest Microsoft technologies.
Silverlight Version 2.0.40115.0 released
Today a new version of Silverlight is released. It only contains fixes and no additional functionality. The build number is: 2.0.40115.0.
If you are interested in changes please take a look at: http://download.microsoft.com/download/F/D/8/FD8F5947-78FF-40A5-9A34-5E35243C12E4/40115/Microsoft%20Silverlight%20Release%20History.html
Get the latest version of Silverlight here.
Want to start with Silverlight? Best you can start from here: http://silverlight.net
Create a Google Talk Chatback Badge
In some situations it could be helpfull for users to chat with e.g. the site administrator. I like the way of automatically show the online/offline state of this user. You can do this using Google Talk. If you are signed in to Google Talk site users can see you online state. Without having a Google Talk account they can chat with you using the guest browser window.
Using the following link you can create a chatscript for you site. http://www.google.com/talk/service/badge/New
You can use it in your sites, even in SharePoint. But be aware that the chatwindow could be a popup, so remember to make this location trusten.
Also don't give passwords or other secret information in this chatwindow because you never know a guest is the person you think and you can't get his credentials.
Twitter web part for SharePoint
Aidan Garnish has build a twitter webpart for sharepoint. You can find his blog and the webpart @
http://www.aidangarnish.net/blog/post/2009/02/Twitter-SharePoint-web-part.aspx