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A popular saying goes that programmers are machines that turn caffeine into code. And sure enough, ask a random programmer when they do their best work and there's a high chance they will admit to a lot of late nights. Some earlier, some later. A popular trend is to get up at 4am and get some work done before the day's craziness begins. Others like going to bed at 4am. At the gist of all this is avoiding distractions. But you could just lock the door, what's so special about the night? Read more: http://swizec.com/blog/why-programmers-work-at-night/swizec/3198#ixzz2q7HdMxaZ

"How to create great PowerPoint slides. Top tips and tools to use to create slides using PowerPoint, including fonts, colours and themes."

"Puzzled about why Google closes successful products such as Reader while backing others such as self-driving cars? A former Apple and Palm executive explains"

"Actually, I don't think defensive coding necessarily is better; I also don't think it's worse. As usual, there are different forces in play, so the short answer is the usual: it depends."

"If you were to look at a .Net project that I told you strictly followed SOLID principles, what would expect to see in terms of the project and code structure ?"

"Today, we're on the brink of a new digital paradigm, where the capabilities of our technology are beginning to outstrip our own.  Computers are deciding which products to stock on shelves, doing legal research and even winning game shows.  They will soon be driving our cars and making medical diagnoses.  Here are five trends that are driving it all."

"While Scrum's primary goal is organization and project management, Lean is more about optimizing processes in order to quickly produce quality products. It can be your first step toward adopting Agile principles, or it may be something that your team evolves to, when Scrum isn't enough. I invite you to read my team's story, and how we evolved from Scrum to a more Lean-ish development process."

Having trouble getting into the Moq? Take a look at the examples found here.

Here's a short overview of four major user interface patterns in their original form, put together and illustrated. A bit of information is added to patterns (with notes to highlight these additions) to show a slightly different viewpoint and different ideas.

If you are using the Entity Framework (EF), then you need to understand the best practices for improving its performance, or you will suffer the consequences!

This article takes a closer than normal look at everyone's favourite data structure - the .NET dictionary. There are quite a lot of different dictionaries classes in .NET these days, so I'm going to explore how they work, what their differences are and where to use them.

At the 2013 Game Developers' Conference, Alon and I from Mozilla and Josh Adams from Epic Games presented a talk called "Fast and Awesome HTML5 Games". We surprised people by showing off Unreal Engine 3 running in Firefox - compiled from C++ source with Emscripten, running smoothly and efficiently.

In this article, you will see creating a plugin is almost exactly same as create a regular ASP.NET MVC web application, it only need to create a plugin manifest file for each plugin.

A nice blog article illustrating some basic point on exception handling.

"Today, JavaScript is no longer a startup, and it's no longer just startups that are using it. Companies of all sizes and levels of maturity build applications for the browser, and JavaScript is the language they use to build them. The demands that were once placed on languages like C/C++ and Java are now shifting to JavaScript, and that shift is exposing the language's limitations: performance and maintainability."

A great TED talk about applying Agile principle outside the workplace.

"Overcoming the Estimation Obsession"

"The good news is there are many entrepreneurs and inventors that agree with me and they are currently building new and better ways for us to interact with computers."

"I've been using Resharper since I started coding in .NET/C#. It's a tool with a lot of features which aids you in the average day development. In this blog post I'm going to show you the features that I use the most."