For those of you who don’t know, ReSharper is no longer a Visual Studio add-in. Previously if you needed to disable ReSharper for whatever reason you could do so in the Add-In Manager in Visual Studio. You no longer can. Disabling ReSharper is now termed “Suspending” it. You can suspend ReSharper from the Tools >…
Category Archives: Productivity
Frugally Increasing Employee Moral
Lately I’ve witnessed some amazing failures in regards to employers increasing employee moral during a time of need for an organization – they just don’t they actually do the reverse. This usually has a very negative effect on organizational efficiency and employee morale in general. For example – The organization is not doing so well,…
An Article Every Manager, VC and Angel Investor Should Read
Awhile back Paul Graham posted an artcile that every Manager, Venture Capitalist and Angel Investor should read. It’s located here: http://paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html Having personally been a developer, manager and entrepenuer who has dealt with development managers, angel investors and private venture capitalists I can tell you, this post hits it out of the park. The makers…
LINQ: Any() vs. Count()
In most code that you find that uses lists you will find something like this: if(products.Count() > 0) { // Do stuff } Personally, I’ve seen this literally thousands of times. While this works and gets the job done, there is one issue with this method. It enumerates the entire enumerable collection. What if you…
Setting up a Default Sequence Template for the MPC1000
I make music with the MPC1000 and every time I start a new sequence I find myself naming my tracks the same, over and over and over. This takes a few minutes each time I start and is productivity play dough (it slows me down). 90% of the songs I create have the same track…
