Something you learned in the last 3 months from Ch9?

I wonder how useful this forum really is.

What is something you learned in the last few months, as a result of Channel 9, which makes you a smarter, faster (or more equipped in any fashion) programmer?

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I invoke THREAD.RESURRECTION();!

It's been almost 2 years, and nobody has learned anything? Let me be the first to start.

Last week, W3bbo helped me solve a problem relating to Storing Markup in Data-fields. He introduced me to Markdown, a great way to keep your content clean, and convert it to HTML upon displaying.

Now my database is getting cleaner and cleaner, and I even have my wife working on converting the rest of it, as a testimony to how easy it is to format your data with markdown - even my non-coding wife can do it.

Thanks W3bbo

Well... there's so much. Just tiny, little things. YOLD taught me the tiny yet significant fact that black takes up the most power in LCDs only. MCampbell taught me Google are going brown with TiSP.

There is a =lot= of stuff

A lot of crap is posted here, but also a lot of good things. Like you say, people helping other people solve problems. People introducing people to cool stuff. Lately, the crap-level has increased a lot. But I don't know what we can do about it.

TommyCarlier wrote:

A lot of crap is posted here, but also a lot of good things. Like you say, people helping other people solve problems. People introducing people to cool stuff. Lately, the crap-level has increased a lot. But I don't know what we can do about it.

I've not noticed as much today. It's gotten better.

Yeah, but how many good niners will have left before it gets better?

jsampsonPC wrote:



It's been almost 2 years...

I'm getting old?

You're right, let's get back on-topic. What I learnt a while ago from irascian was to stop jumping on every new technology Microsoft (or anyone else, but especially Microsoft) threw at us. I read about the new technologies as much as I can (have time and/or brain capacity for), I evaluate if I could use it right now or in the near future, if it's a good idea to jump on it. And I haven't found a single new technology that I've jumped on immediately, since .NET 2.0. The only more recent technology I'm actively using is Powershell, which I occasionaly use. All the other new stuff (.NET 3.0, .NET 3.5, LINQ, Silverlight, ...) are nice, but not nice enough to spend my professional or personal time on (except for reading about it, trying some demos).

Charles wrote:

Channel 9 is much more than the Coffeehouse....
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Deep breath and ...

WE KNOW



The video with Bertrand Meyer was cool, he's clearly got a brain the size of a planet. Although I really didn't get on with his seminal OO book, it took the complete opposite approach to the way I tend to learn things.

I don't come here that often anymore. I learned what delegates were from littleguru.

I learn a lot from the videos. Charles' Going Deep series is just good stuff.

Thanks to Corona/Beer,  I've learned that Linux has already won the war of the desktop O/S  and that Windows/Microsoft is doomed.

a lot of things, but one thing that is most memorable for me, is.... how to answer interview questions. really helped me a lot, and i have a new job starting next month! yay! thanks for the help everyone.