My Parallel Zen for .NET Developers talk at Microsoft (Waltham). Hope to see you there.

I received confirmation of my talk on .NET 4.0 concurrency titled, "Parallel Zen for .NET Developers". The event is February 11 at Microsoft (Cambridge). Hope to see you there.

The most common question I get from developers is:

There is one true answer; one true path...

Five Practices of the Sincere Developer provides innumerable benefits, perhaps most importantly that of producing valuable outcomes. When you fully embrace these practices you are, by definition, a sincere developer.

Google my title and you will find plenty of tools that happily synchronize the Common Feeds List for you. Heck, I was about to write a tool myself. But the solution I have used to synchronize My Documents between computers gave me an idea for the Common Feeds List. And it worked!

For about eighteen months I have chewed on an idea for something I call Distributed Continuous Integration Build. The idea has had to stew behind other priorities - like the birth of my fourth child.

The default PowerShell profile does not contain a variable for the Documents folder. Meanwhile Windows does not contain an environment variable for it either.

Ever mistype a path during Find and then have to live with it in the list forever?

Are you running Vista? Do you have dual monitors? Last question: do you have them stacked vertically?