Design Patterns

Here is a link, which depicts patterns amazingly simple and helps one to comprehend easily.

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++14 = 14

C++1y was the name sometimes used instead until its approval as earlier C++ standard revisions were noticeably late. But came out on 2014, itself - C++14 is on time.

A word to the wise (is enough)

a hint or brief explanation given, that being all that is required.

Other similar forms: A word to the wise and a kick to the dumb or Verb sap 

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Architect vs Manager

An Architect is like a director (making sure, things get done correctly), whereas a Project Manager is like a producer (making sure, things get done), taking the filmmaking as an analogy.

-  The Process of Software Architecting (book)

Clean Code

A slogan that I have been voicing, now a days, more often to the developers during the code reviews is:

SLAP your code, make it SOLID and ensure (Unit) Tested.

'Duty Fulfiller', is what typealyzer thinks me as?

Typealyzer, which analyzes (or predicts) one's personality based on one's blog (or site) content, is what I had come across while I was going through some one's blog recently. 

It has analyzed me as The Duty Fulfillers based on my both blog and site. This prediction, might be very close enough ;) to what I think my personality is. Also, part of the brain utilized for writing this blog & site can be seen here.

Analysis as per akx++ Solutions & akx Solutions

MSDN vs Google Custom

Usually, to search for anything related to Microsoft's technologies, One might (at least myself) use MSDN search to avoid seeing numerous (unnecessary) hits as opposed to the Google. MSDN includes the below listed sites for its searching:

                  Forums (forums.microsoft.com),

                  Support Knowledge Base (support.microsoft.com),

                  Code Project (codeproject.com) &

                  Stack Overflow (stackoverflow.com).

Also, learnt (from one of the Microsoft's employee site) that the Google Custom Search gives precedence to Microsoft & MSDN results. To say it, in his own words - it is very useful for looking up APIs, debugging information and general technical knowledge. This extends the search to couple of other "Microsoft" sites (forums.xbox.com, microsoft.com) in addition to what msdn does but excludes the other non microsoft sites (codeproject.com & stackoverflow.com).

Hence, it is upto you to decide, what suites you the best on a context.

Quotes

I'm a great believer in luck and I find, the harder I work ,the more I have of it. ~ Thomas Jefferson

While faith makes all things possible, it is love that makes all things easy. ~ Moody, Dwight L.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he would die for, he isn't fit to live. ~ Martin Luther King Jr.