Standup meetings, Asking, Mistakes - different opionion from Mike Hill

By "lose the 3 questions" - he is asking us to do away with the 3 questions - 'what did i do yesterday, what i am planning to do today, any blocking issues'

By "do not solve anything" - he says "we do not solve problems in standups, we raise them"

And he also mentions that the last 2 points - - "make asking a safe thing to do" , "make mistaking a safe thing to do",
which he calls "values", are "really critical". He says "we dont want our team not to make mistakes... we want to our team to make mistakes and repair them, in good cheer..." and adds "we want things to be pretty safe inside the team"

Full link to his talk - http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Individual-Coach

Referencing github from jsfiddle

From http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9841026/reference-github-file-in-jsfiddle :

-- And yes, it is, just get the raw copy. Take the URL (https://github.com/minitech/Sprint2/blob/master/sprint.js), addraw. before github, and remove the blob/ part:

https://raw.github.com/minitech/Sprint2/master/sprint.js

-- You can also just replace /blob/ with /raw/ and Github will 301 you to the correct url.

Dialectic vs Debate

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectic:
Dialectic (also dialectics and the dialectical method) is a method of argument for resolving disagreement that has been central to Indian and European philosophy since antiquity. The word dialectic originated in ancient Greece, and was made popular by Plato in the Socratic dialogues. The dialectical method is dialogue between two or more people holding different points of view about a subject, who wish to establish the truth of the matter by dialogue, with reasoned arguments.[1] Dialectics is different from debate, wherein the debaters are committed to their points of view, and mean to win the debate, either by persuading the opponent, proving their argument correct, or proving the opponent's argument incorrect – thus, either a judge or a jury must decide who wins the debate. Dialectics is also different from rhetoric, wherein the speaker uses logos, pathos, or ethos to persuade listeners to take their side of the argument.

Recursive lambda expression

void Main()
{
///////////////////////////////////////////////
// BOOK - C# Unleashed 4.0
// Chapter, Page - Chap 18 Events, Pg 859-861

/*
///////////////////////////////////////////////
// PROBLEM - recursive lambda expression
//
Func fac2 = n => n == 0 ? 1 : n * fac2(n - 1); // will not work
fac2(5).Dump();
*/

///////////////////////////////////////////////
// SOLUTION - initialize the lambda expression variable to null before assigning it the actual lambda expression
//
Func fac = null;
fac = n => n == 0 ? 1 : n * fac(n - 1); // will work
Console.WriteLine(fac(5));
}


---

Action finishedHandler = () => {
Console.Beep();
// Finished has been called: we can unhook both Tick and Finished now.
countDown.Tick -= tickHandler;
countDown.Finished -= finishedHandler;
};

Action finishedHandler; // this variable is unassigned!
Action __temp = () => {
Console.Beep();
// Finished has been called: we can unhook both Tick and Finished now.
countDown.Tick -= tickHandler;
countDown.Finished -= finishedHandler;
};

LINQPad - Adding references

To get access to HttpUtility -
From http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5015363/linqpad-4-doesnt-know-about-httputililty-how-to-resolve

1. You need to a reference System.Web.dll. Press F4 (References) and add a reference to that DLL.
2. Or, if you have an autocompletion license, just type your original query: HttpUtility.UrlPathEncode("Make sure"); and open the smart-tag that automatically appears. It will present a menu option to add the reference to System.Web.dll and import the System.Web namespace in a one-fell-click!