Here comes one from vimcheatsheet 'dot com' which is now gone.

Other notable mentions:

• vim shortcut wallpaper
• cheatsheet from viemu author

Enjoy!

And here is a sneak peek on the Word app.

What's new in Word

After this screen you are prompted for your Office 365 account credentials so that your copy of Office could be activated on your computer.

How would you like Office to look?

Start using Word

Word in action

Unlike the Office 11 for Mac, the new interface is almost identical to Office for PC. I think Parallels sales are going to drop soon :)

Enjoy!

Here's one in action:

I was trying to disable numerous extensions and add-ons, but the intellisense was not collaborating. Then, I tried to create basic sample solution with one project and Intellisense was working okay. So, the only difference between the bare-bone sample solution and the typical solution I work with, is the number of files. And I have to tell you, that with all the latest and greates advancements of web technology, typical web solution can contain thousands of files, which VS tries to analyze and fit into small intellisense popup at every key stroke you do.

Since I do not need Resharper's support outside C#-world, it might be a good idea to limit scope of ReSharper Intellisense to this specific language only, so that there is no unnecessary activity performed.

On November 2nd, I participated in NYC Marathon [as a spectator] and got enourmous amount of motivation. I cheered runners by clapping so hard, my palms were hurting.

The same day I took a flight to Seattle to attend the MVP Summit taking place in Bellevue and Redmond.

As usual, the agenda was very very extensive and it's never an easy to task when it comes to picking up sessions as there were several sessions running at the same time.

Below you can see the only photo I think I can show in a public place :)

Besides the sessions there were plenty of evening evens so MVP could communicate with each other, or just have some nice food and few drinks. Together with my roomate Alex, we had a dinner at some posh steak house and loved the view and the meat (not loved the bill, but that's just an expense, the rest is an experience).

Everything comes to an end at some point, so did the MVP Summit and it was time to get home. That the moment when you recall you have a camera in your bag and start taking pictures. Here are some of mine:

Disclaimer: More than a year ago I received a MVP Pro license from NDepend team, and they never told me to write a rave review about it, they just asked to help spread the word. So here is me keeping the promise :) Please read my sincere review of the NDepend 5 Professional.

What is NDepend?

NDepend is a static analysis tool for your .NET code, that is, it eats your code, digests it and then it can entertain you with very sophisticated graphs and dependency matrix and, moreover, you can ask it different questions about your code.

The workflow

You can use NDepend as a standalone application or have it running inside Visual Studio. So you start with selecting either existing Visual Studio Solution, or point NDepend to a folder containing assemblies you want to analyse.

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Once NDepend is done analysing code, you will be presented with HTML report and the application will display a dashboar.

Dashboard

The dashboard is quick way to examine the overal state of the analysed code. You can follow links and play with results.

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The dashboard has very important section, which displays information on Code Rules. You can define your own rules which are specific to your oranisation needs, or (modify and) use set of default code rules.

Code Rules

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NDepend can help you with code review process. When someone commits new code, you can see which rules this new code has violated or which violations have been fixed.

[Update] NDepend code DIFF feature can help you see what exactly changed between different builds. Just define the projects to compare and scan code changes:
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Code Rule violations can have different level of severity. If a newbee team member breaks API interface, this kind of violation will stare at you with its yellow warning triangle. Even if the change was done on purpose, you can ensure the change did make it into the build!

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Graphs and Matrices

NDepend can help you understand codebase of virtually any size. NDepend has set of graph and matrix views which will help you find dependencies and problems in your code. Using search feature you can find and visualise complex hierarchies of dependent entities. For example you have some base entity and need to review its descendants.

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Or you need to BIN deploy an assembly and need to know which assemblies to include into the package:
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NDepend is here to help if you do not have much time to read a lot of code just to be able to know where to insert your two lines bugfix.

Say, you have been assigned with a task which requires you to make some changes to some authentication related code. So you need to understand what code to change and where most of the code is located. You always can just search for Auth code inside Visual Studio, or even use Object Browser to locate relevant types, but it is much easier and informative to do with NDepend.

Just type Auth and have the heatmap of auth-related code. You can quickly see the core assembly, you can see where else are the methods, you can drill down to very obscure places in the code - all of this from one UI.

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And I have not touched matrix analysis yet! Well, I will not dig into matrix view in this post, due to complex nature of this feature, but you can read more about it here and here is very old, but still very helpful Hanselmann article to help you understand the power of the matrix analysis feature.

Metrics

Using NDepend metrics you can easily spot code that needs refactoring. You have access to ready made queries that can filter out problematic code, and those queries can be edited to match your company standarts.

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And here is how it works:
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Code Quality Trends

NDepend allows you to keep track of your code base quality metrics. Using NDepend Project Properties, you can define baseline project to keep your analysis results, which NDepend will use to build trends reports:
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Other Uses And Wrap-Up

In this flashy animateful blog post I tried to show off the features I liked the most. I honestly liked the matrix, but I do not have suitable project (which I can publicaly show) that would allow me to explain all the benefits matrix provides.

Another huge feature I have not mentioned in this post, is the ability to use NDepend as a part of your continuous integration process. You can have your own set of rules to break the build and developer, who has broken the build will have no other way around it, other than fix the violating rule. Yes, you can have similar effect with FxCop or tools alike, but with NDepend you get almost an entire IDE to build your perfect set of rules. And it's pure awesome!

Above are the pros. Here is the list of cons:

1) it has kind of a steep learning curve
2) sometimes mouseover popups are blocking you from seeing what you want
3) it takes some time to figure out how to navigate out of analysed code jungles
4) the price is much higher than your average iPhone app :)

I hope you enoyed it. Please let me know if you have any questions or would like some aspects of NDepend explained in future posts.

PS: I have used ServiceStack open source project, to which I recently contributed a set of OAuth authentication providers. Check it out!

First of all, the above file is a Javascript source map file, which browsers like Chrome can use to assist in debugging minified javascript source.

The minified file angular.min.js has this:

//@ sourceMappingURL=angular.min.js.map

And the map file has to exist in the same location as the minified file.

ServiceStack host has to know about this to be able to respond to such requests. This is good because it does no allow some odd files to be retrieved therefore minifies the attack surface.

So, when you need to allow ServiceStack to respond with files, having whatever file extension and define proper mime type for it, use the snippet below. This has to go into the app host's Configure method override:

var hostConfig = new HostConfig  
{
        HandlerFactoryPath = "api/v1",
        MetadataRedirectPath = "/",
};
hostConfig.AllowFileExtensions.Add("map");  
SetConfig(hostConfig);

MimeTypes.ExtensionMimeTypes["map"] = "application/javascript";  

Enjoy!

Just like in the video above, in our evryday life we often find ourserves distracted while doing those small steps day after day, thinking that we approach our goals. This video proves how important is to have your goal always in your sight. So, it always is a good idea to stop for a moment, rise your head and make sure you are still on track.

Cheers!

This is simply brilliant! Here's where that video comes from - they have covered those well know sort algorithms and even have the interactive section where one can either watch the turn-by-turn explanation, or try running the algorythm manually.

Check it out: http://algo-rythmics.ms.sapientia.ro/

Enjoy!

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>  
<settings>  
    <repositoryPath>..\packages</repositoryPath>
</settings>  

Cheers!

My personal record was a game when I played black stones and every stone on the board was of white color.

You get extra bragging rights if the layout of the winner stones resembles a finger gesture :)