Patterns patterns patterns. But it's better to know the anti - patterns

This had the potential to be GREAT but unfortunately it ended up being only mediocre. The first book is very interesting and sets up "the stage" just right but the next 2 simply don't deliver. It's a shame because the backstory is very interesting.

I'm reading "The productive programmer" and i stumbled upon this :

"Computers are designed to perform simple, repetitive tasks over and over really fast. Yet an
odd thing is happening: people are performing simple, repetitive tasks by hand on computers.
And the computers get together late at night and make fun of their users. How did this happen? "

From my point of view this describes perfectly the way user are interacting with computers today.

As you probably know by default web.config inheritance is on. This can create problems even in very simple situations (for instance registering the same user control in both applications). To disable inheritance just modify the root web.config file like this :

Here's the method definition :

and here's the R# suggestion :

The little things make R# rock :)

Shopkeeper has new demo site

   Bad ideea (related to browsers anyway).  Both IE8 and Chrome use process to ensure code isolation (basically each browser tab runs in his own process). From a efficiency point of view this is a little disturbing because creating a new process in Windows is a task consuming process. I'm thinking of my browsing habits....i never have less than 15 tabs opened in Firefox. If i would run Chrome/IE8 that would mean 15 new process. Add the regular programs (devenv, notepad++, smss, im, music player, email etc etc ) and quickly browsing becomes prohibitive.

   I'm all for multithread software which uses all the cpu cores but this is taken to the extreme. What's next....a email client which opens each email message in a new process ?

This is a bad decision. Ensemble you will be greatly missed. AOE2 is, along with Starcraft, the best RTS ever released.

First of all the bullshiting is reaching astronomical promportions . Windows killer (a Windows killer which runs only on Windows ? Oh sweet irony...)  ? Cloud operating system ? It's just a friggin browser for God's sake (and a pretty crappy one i might add). Frankly i dislike this. If Google wanted to make the "web faster, safer, and easier " they would have helped improved Webkit/Gecko  instead of releasing yet another half baked project.