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  • Programmer fonts, do they matter?

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    May be I pay attention to silly things, but some fonts are easier to read than others and if you keep writing or reading code during hours and hours, the font that you use may very well affect your productivity (just a theory Geeked [8-|], besides, far more ridiculous stuff has made it's way in the Internet). Anyways, this is a code section with the standard Visual Studio font (Courier New Size 10):

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  • Sysinternals, Web searching, and Win Fx February CTP (or January CTP or something else)

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    This morning I installed WinFx February CTP in the recommended order (Runtime, Win SDK, VS Extensions) and everything went smoothly. This afternoon, I used VS 2005 in a customer project (you know, the ones you're actually paid for doing) and something funny happened: when I tried to add a web reference in a pretty standard project I got this message Some of the files required for Web references are not installed. I blinked, tried again (I know, I know, totally silly but old habits die hard), and again... as usual, no miracle happened so I started to mumble something about idiots installing CTPs in their development machines but then I remembered the Web, I searched for "Some of the files required for Web references are not installed." and I got a few pointers, one of them gave a list of files that should exist and I was about checking when I read another pearl:

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  • Windows Communications Foundation goes live (and WFW too)

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    I just received an e-mail and then read at the MSDN blogs about the Jan'06 CTP of WCF and WFW. Two big surprises for me: first, they've both got a Go Live! License. It so happens that a couple of months ago I convinced a friend to ride the wave and use Indigo in a big project, we both knew Indigo could slip its schedule but he took the risk anyway, now that we have a GLL far before the project is finished I feel relieved. The second surprise for me is how fast Workflow Foundation is maturing, I had decided to concentrate on WCF for the time being, in spite of the immediate usefulness of WWF in our current projects: I guess now I'll have to reconsider some decisions.

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