“CSS The Missing Manual” by David S. MCFarland.
The book covers:
TFS is now almost 10 years in the market. For every new release Ed Blankenship, Martin Woodward, Grant Holliday and Brian Keller update their book “Professional Team Foundation Server”.
Some developers think TFS is only or equal to the Visual Studio IDE but TFS supports so much more:
The book covers all aspects of a software development cycle. Being a software architect and team lead this book has become a trusted companion!
Great book and introduction to all aspects of Azure.
“Azure in Action” by Chris Hay and Brian H. Prince covers:
“Our Iceberg Is Melting” by John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber describes an eight-step process for organizational change.
Set the Stage
1. Create a Sense of Urgency:
Make other see the need for change and the importance to act now.
2. Pull together the Guiding Team
People with power, leadership and authority. But also people with analytical skills and communication skills.
Decide What to Do
3. Develop the Change Vision and Strategy
How will the future be different from the past. Communicate the strategy and make sure everyone understands and accepts.
Make it Happen
4. Communicate for Understanding and Buy-in
Create buy-in no only by arguments of reasons but also argument of the heart.
5. Empower Others to Act
Remove barriers and commit to actions.
6. Produce Short-Term Wins
Recognize the quiet heroes amongst the more visible.
7. Don’t Let Up
Be relentless until the vision become reality.
Make it Stick
8. Create a New Culture
Make sure people don’t get into old habits. Make the new way of doing things part of the company culture.
Just found this very nice video by Luca Bolognese introducing F#.
The video is already from some time ago (PDC 2008) but it nicely shows the difference between the declarative and imperative programming paradigm in some real-live examples.
I very much liked how Luca used the barista analogy to explain that distinction. He said it would be like asking for coffee in a bar or telling the bar tender to grind some beans, to heat some water and in parallel pressure cook some foam.
I remember three basic functions from F#:
I was pretty amazed how F# deals with asynchronous and parallel programming. A simple ”et!’ allows you to free up a thread.
More info about F# you can find on Microsoft’s F# Developer Center webiste.