Nice to see a nice less technical Microsoft blog, with some subjects that I think apply to job interviews not only at Microsoft:

• What to wear...
• The Phone screen

Currently a 3 part series, but I'm sure more will follow:

• How to Shoot Yourself in the Foot with Code Coverage? (Part I)
• How to Shoot Yourself in the Foot with Code Coverage? (Part II)
• Punch it in the nose - if it stops bleeding, punch it harder

Very usefull ....

http://blogs.msdn.com/stefan_gossner/archive/2004/04/04/107235.aspx

Started reading:

• Waltzing with Bears - DeMarco & Lister
• Code complete - McConnell

Ordered:

• .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference, Volume 1: Base Class Library and Extended Numerics Library, 1/e - Abrams
• The C# Programming Language - Hejlsberg
  

....and it feels good to have something of a more reasonable day/night ritme again, compared to studying, eating and sleeping for over 3 weeks.

So what's new? I'm browsing to the 3k+ posts in my aggregator, hoping to skip most so I can start playing with Visual Studio 2005 (TEFKA VS Whidbey) Technology preview ( First thing I noticed is the Webprojects have a separate new project wizard from the rest of the projects, are they 'special'?). 

I read some nice things about the Motorola MPx smartphone, hope they'll be available in Europe in June as promised, so I can dump my crappy T68i.

Upcoming projects include finishing Minesweeper for .Net and start on a networked game using WSE v2.

Will be back early April, after my exams. Yes, I still go to college and I will complete my BSc in Aerospace Engineering.

or why some websites suck. Great article not just dealing with online shops, but some excellent advice for all sites dealing with user data.

AskTog: Top 10 Reasons to Not Shop On Line

With J-Script, that works in most current and some less current browsers.

Submitting default buttons when the user presses the Enter key - finally!

It looks like BradA likes the yield keyword, recursively iterate through files in a directory structure. Allthough I would advice using a foreach loop in a method returning a IEnumerable, which causes an IEnumerator to be instanciated in most cases, a simple for-loop is usually faster (measured in v1.1, but maybe something changed in v2.0).

Very good advice for novice- and more experienced programmers:

Syntax, Semantics, Micronesian cults and Novice Programmers

Cargo Cultists, Part Two

Cargo Cultists, Part Three: Is Mort a Cargo Cultist?

[update: referenced Richard Feynman article on Cargo Cult Science]