Windows 7 old alt-tab behaviour

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer]
"AltTabSettings"=dword:00000001

Thanks to Scott Weinstein

WinRT and Windows internals history

Turning to the past to power Windows' future: An in-depth look at WinRT

Great ArsTechnica article by Peter Bright.

GDS design principles

Design principles for digital services published by the UK Gov.

GDS design principles

1 Start with needs*
2 Do less
3 Design with data
4 Do the hard work to make it simple
5 Iterate. Then iterate again.
6 Build for inclusion
7 Understand context
8 Build digital services, not websites
9 Be consistent, not uniform
10 Make things open: it makes things better

The daily reads

http://www.theguardian.co.uk
http://www.nytimes.com
http://www.globalpost.com
http://www.cnn.com
http://news.bbc.co.uk
http://www.time.com
http://www.newyorker.com
http://www.economist.com
http://www.nationalgeographic.com
http://spectrum.ieee.org/
http://www.wired.com
http://www.engadet.com
http://www.slashdot.com
http://www.theverge.com
http://www.daringfireball.com
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/default.aspx
http://www.smashingmagazine.com
http://www.hongkiat.com

Failure is fine

Great post by Michael Abrash about organizations, Valve in particular, and the acceptance of failure. And about formal management (or rather the absence of it).

Valve: How I Got Here, What It’s Like, and What I’m Doing

Also read Valves excellent employee handbook. It is truly inspirational!

Website engineering

Instagram Engineering
Facebook Engineering Notes

Internet beginnings

The wayback machine at the Internet Archive is an amazing resource.

Check out my old webpage from January 1997 that I had as a member at the ABC-klubben in Sweden.

https://web.archive.org/web/19970110005245/http://abc.se/~m10476/

The Bibliotheca Alexandria has an excellent mirror (archive.bibalex.org) of the Internet Archive.

jqGrid

jqGrid has a lot more features than WebGrid (like inline editing and frozen columns and group column headers).

Online sample and description
www.trirand.net/demoaspnetmvc.aspx

Sample of using jqgrid in MVC 3
tpeczek.codeplex.com/releases/view/61796

Sample database Northwind
www.codeproject.com/Articles/42837/HowTo-Install-the-Northwind-and-Pubs-Sample-Databa

Awesome Screnshoot

Great extension and service for saving and annotating screenshots from you web browser. Available for Chrome, Firefox and Safari. www.awesomescreenshot.com

Readability

Great service for saving web articles and reading them later. www.readability.com

ASP.NET MVC 3 Security Introduction

Great introduction on Pluralsight to security issues you face when deploying an ASP.NET MVC 3 application.

Security and ASP.NET MVC 3 (Pluralsight)

ASP.NET Security (microsoft)

"With easier I think Scott (Hanselman) means not impossible", Scott Allen in regards to IIS Express ssl configuration.

It's my life, Talk Talk

The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing Shareholder Value

http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2011/11/28/maximizing-shareholder-value-the-dumbest-idea-in-the-world/