Posted: May 19th, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: code, personal | Tags: learning, reference, self-improvement, shortcuts, visual studio, vs | No Comments »
I’ve been working with a lot of new developers lately and have noticed that there’s a lot of useful keyboard shortcuts in Visual Studio that I never bothered to learn. Now I always stick with the default configuration unless it’s absurd or something I really like (for example turning hard corded strings yellow) because customisation doesn’t propagate.
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Posted: October 19th, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: personal, social, web | Tags: carson, carsonified, conference, fowa, futureofwebapps, icanhascheezburger, learning, london2008, microsoft, surface | 1 Comment »
After experiencing FoWA for the second time, I felt it was a bitter sweet conference. The talks were not as compelling as last time around overall but there were plenty of them and a few gems in there. The real suprise for me was Ben Huh. His talk about keeping users interested in your site was fantastic and his interactive choose-your-own-presentation-ending idea was inspired.

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