If you haven’t seen CodePaste.net before it’s a neat little scratchpad for sharing code. I came across this the other day when @JeffHandley tweeted about a specific piece of code he was working on. Let’s say you need feedback on something you’re doing and your pairing partner has left the desk for a phone call or a visit to the little developer’s room. You can paste the code you’re looking at into CodePaste and then post the url out for everyone to see.

Earlier this week Visual Studio 2010 & .NET 4.0 Beta 2 was made available for public consumption. To help get you started with all the new features and widgets in VS the folks over at Channel 9 have hosted a Training Kit site. You can find a few videos and a download to help you get going. One of the video courses is on Parallel Computing. If you are interested in learning about what VS 2010 and .

At CodeStock 2009 I gave a talk entitled “Be a Better Developer”. Just last night I gave the talk in Indianapolis. Here’s the abstract from the talk: “As a developer you end up wearing a lot of different hats: researcher, designer, janitor, mediator, teacher, student… the list can go on. You likely juggle these hats almost every day and we haven’t even mentioned writing a line of code yet. If you want to become a better developer you’ll have to learn how to switch these hats out easily and what it means to wear each one well.