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New and Notable 198

Getting ready to spend a full 7 days in Redmond starting Saturday and meanwhile trying to bring on two new superstars

CLR/F#/C#

I have not had the time to blog about the wellcome addition of F# being "producized and becoming a first-class citizen in VS.NET
Via Harry, I learned about some other very interesting F# developments like Async Workflows. Regardless of it's name, Async Workflows is about making .NET's Async Programming model a first class citizen in F#. Robert Pickering has a good post explaining how this new feature works.

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Work Habits

I am doing a lot of work remotely from home now so I really apprieciate Chris Sell's Working Remotely for Microsoft: Can You Focus On Work At Home? and Working Remotely for Microsoft: Can You Communicate Effectively From Home? Both are loaded with very valuable tips. Everyone thinks it sthis nirvana to work from home. The reality is much different: it can be very challenging and much harder. One of his tips is Get everyone on your team to use IM. Neudesic requires all employees to be on MSN Messenger during work hours so you can reach your team mates and anyone you need to. On the focus side, Chris gives an excellent description of the wife and kids "I'm here but I'm not here (I'm working)" syndrome. I resort to working at StarBucks when I need to get out (it has the added advantage of lots of strong coffee to keep me working) or I will go into our Philly area office. What do you do?

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