10 ways to show you're a programming rockstar

Fair enough to be considered:

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Leverage your existing code you wrote. Programmers who write code and then immediately disregard it are missing out on the most exceptional tip on this list: start building your library of routines and techniques. If you are in a corporate environment, yes, you will have a corporate library to pull from for your projects. If you are an individual programmer, yes, you will have your own collection of routines or libraries that you can use in your "outside" projects. As the object-oriented saying goes, the routines are reusable.

Automate like crazy. If you've been around the programming block for a while, you know that there are always quicker ways to accomplish certain tasks. It's now getting to the point in this industry where if someone asks you for a web site, you can build one relatively quick. Then they start asking for features. It's the features part that makes the difference and slows you down.

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NetStumbler for Mac: WiFi troubleshooting

1. iStumbler

http://www.istumbler.net
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2. kismac
http://trac.kismac-ng.org

3. inssider
http://www.metageek.net/products/inssider

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PInvokeStackImbalance C# call to unmanaged C++ function

After switching to VS2010, the managed debug assistant is displaying an error about an unbalanced stack from a call to an unmanaged C++ function from a C# application.
The VS2008 built C++ dll and C# application never had a problem.

Decision:

1. Use __stdcall on your C++ function
Examble:

short __stdcall SuperSpecialOpenFileFunc(SuperSpecialStruct * stuff);

2. Declare CallingConvention = CallingConvention.Cdecl on your DllImport
3. Use a compiler switch that will turn on stdcall as the default calling convention: -Gz

About pInvokeStackImbalance MDA:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/0htdy0k3.aspx

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TSF + PowerShell: List all projects

This will create TFS instance and get all project from the instance.
$registryValue is an object to be displayed in the output grid of PowerGUI window.

    $tfs = get-tfs "http://TFS-URL"
    $projects = $tfs.CSS.ListAllProjects()
    
    foreach($pro in $projects) {
    $registryValue = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSObject
    $registryValue `
        | Add-Member -Name Name -MemberType NoteProperty -Value $pro.Name -PassThru `
        | Add-Member -Name Status -MemberType NoteProperty -Value $pro.Status -PassThru `
        | Add-Member -Name URI -MemberType NoteProperty -Value $pro.Uri-PassThru `
        | Add-Member -Name BS -MemberType NoteProperty -Value $tfs.BS -PassThru

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TFS + PowerShell: Create TFS instance

TFS VS 2010 and PowerShell 2

This function returns TFS instance which will be used in use cases to follow later.

function get-tfs (
    [string] $serverName = $(Throw 'serverName is required')
)
{
    # load the required dll

    [void][System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client")

    $propertiesToAdd = (
        ('VCS', 'Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client', 'Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client.VersionControlServer'),
        ('WIT', 'Microsoft.TeamFoundation.WorkItemTracking.Client', 'Microsoft.TeamFoundation.WorkItemTracking.Client.WorkItemStore'),
        ('BS', 'Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Client', 'Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Client.IBuildServer'),
        ('CSS', 'Microsoft.TeamFoundation', 'Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Server.ICommonStructureService'),
        ('GSS', 'Microsoft.TeamFoundation', 'Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Server.IGroupSecurityService')
    )

    # fetch the TFS instance, but add some useful properties to make life easier
    # Make sure to "promote" it to a psobject now to make later modification easier

    [psobject] $tfs = [Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client.TeamFoundationServerFactory]::GetServer($serverName)
    foreach ($entry in $propertiesToAdd) {
        $scriptBlock = '
            [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("{0}") > $null
            $this.GetService([{1}])
        ' -f $entry[1],$entry[2]
        $tfs | add-member scriptproperty $entry[0] $ExecutionContext.InvokeCommand.NewScriptBlock($scriptBlock)
    }
    return $tfs
}

get-tfs "http://TFS-URL"

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7 Mb Linux

Linux is so fun. Just've fiddled with a 4 mb memory + 1 Gb flash storage:
Busybox, Samba server, lighttp, ftp server, torrent.

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