Digital Transition

This is probably one of the best (also because it is short) explaining articles about what Project Management really entails.

Sometimes something as simple as playing music at work isn’t as simple as it sounds.

There are a few ways to do this, but each of them have their own problems:

• MP3 player
• Playing from a computer
• Internet radio
• Easylistener

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It’s that time of year again… I went hardware shopping.
Actually, I went twice. First a PC upgrade a month ago, which I didn’t post about (and not going to except for the list, due to a lack of time and because I forgot to take photos before installing everything) and secondly a week ago.
Here are the lists:
List 1

• Antec Sonata III 500W case (it’s a good power supply and I could use the extra case;) )
• ASUS P5K-E mainboard
• ASUS 8600GT Silent 256MB
• Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4Ghz
• 4 GB DDR2 RAM
• Western Digital 3.5″ 320GB SATAII hard disk

List 2

• Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Extreme Gamer
• Icy Box 2.5″ portable hard disk case
• Seagate 2.5″ 120GB 7200rpm SATA hard disk
• Logitech Wave keyboard
• Linksys NAS200 Network Attached Storage
• Western Digital 3.5″ 500GB SATAII hard disk
• Belkin KVM (monitor + 2 USB)
• Samsung Dual Layer DVD-RW SATA

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A short, nice and bit of a sarcastic (which makes it nice) overview of the changes from Windows 95 up to Windows Vista.

[From: Shipping Seven]

Recently, I’ve been involved in a .NET project that uses both VB.NET and C# projects in the same Visual Studio solution. Personally, I prefer C#, but VB.NET isn’t that hard to switch to, except that you can run into an unlogical namespace inconvenience.

VB.NET and C# handle the namespace inheritence in their class files and project files differently :S

VB.NET project

1. Specify the Root namespace of your project as “Test.VB”
2. Add the following class to that project:
   Namespace Test.VB.TestNamespace
Public Class Class1
'Some code
End Class
End Namespace

C# project

1. Specify the Root namespace of your project as “Test.CS”
2. Add the following class to your project:
   namespace Test.CS.TestNamespace
{
public class Class1
{
//Some code
}
}

Addressing those classes from your main project in the solution:

Test.CS.TestNamespace.Class1 class1;
Test.VB.Test.VB.TestNamespace.Class1 class2;

As you can see… The VB.NET class inherits the project’s namespace, the C# class doesn’t.