Simple Phone
I saw a lot of young people got their fancy mobile phone. My one is very simple one. It can't take photo and play MP3. But It only cost around $100. That's much cheaper. Moreover, I won't be happy about the features of those kinds of fancy mobile phone. If I want a MP3 player, I will buy a MP3 player. I need to take photo I will buy a camera. Mobile phone is mobile phone. I need it to make calls.
NAS Appliances
My hard disk space is running of space. I am thinking NAS Appliances. I have shopped around AUD$300-500. That's quite a lot for myself. Well, I don't want to spend that much only to solve a disk storage problem. I have calculated to buy a cheap computer, that's around $600. I made a decision to buy a new computer and install a Linux. I can solve the problem of disk space and a new development server.
Resume
I have talked a number of graduates. They are not good at selling themselves. Most of them said they have not any work experiences. No, they have some practical experiences. For example, they setup their own home network. This is a kind of networking experiences. When they did their university projects to build some software, this is also a kind of software development. They can put those details into their resume.
Spring .Net
A few days ago, someone has asked what Spring .Net framework does. Well, I can refer him to read some papers about dependency injection, something like this. But in a simple way, it initializes objects in xml files rather than in source codes. We call mutators in xml files. In the way, we can change values of objects in xml files. That does not require to require the source codes again.
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Generic Collections
In .Net 2.0, they introduced Generic Collections. You are able to put a type of object in an array list. For example , ArrayList <Cat> list = new ArrayList <Cat> In this list, all of objects are the instances of Cat Object. We do not need to casting the item and type safe in this list. But in the past time, I like to put a mixture of object types in an array list. Loop out each item and check its type. I used that a lot, when I parse the object from database and do some data mining tools.(Well, I did it in my spare time, of couse , not at work).I think this is a time to change this habit. This is a kind of hack.