LINKBLOG for May 19, 2008
May 19th, 2008 by AZuidhof
ant to access TFS Work Items via PowerShell? - Greg Duncan
‘ Then you’ll want to check out the Team Foundation Server Project Browser PowerPack for PowerGUI ‘Mandelbrot revisited - benchmark edition - Jon Skeet
Fun with Mandelbrot using some LINQ goodnessWhat’s Your Pocket Knife Language? - Martin Woodward
The Single Most Important Career Question You Can Ask Yourself - Rob Walling
Are you a producer or a consumer?
‘ If you’ve been reading start-up blogs for years and never started anything, it’s time to accept that you’re a consumer ‘
Personal Branding Checklist - Jesse Randall Warden
Something to take serious if *you* want to be taken serious in 2008
via Twitter/jurgenappelo (loving Twitter more every day, my only gripe is the big time diff between US and Europe, leading to a quiet Twitter during office hours - hmm, on second thought: maybe that would be a *good* thing instead)ASP.NET: officially unmaintainable - Jimmy Bogard
ASP.NET is some time ago for me, but I do remember the problems switching back and forth too much between designer and code windows caused, the lack of SoC, etc.Using Binding.StringFormat - Rudi Grobler
A small .NET 3.5 SP1 tipA Programming Job Interview Challenge #4 - Shahar Y
Solutions to previous questionsBreaking the Fermilab Code - John Graham-Cumming
Ahhh, a cryptographic challenge!Why use the Entity Framework? Yeah, why exactly? - Frans Bouma
Meanwhile, somewhere in the OR/M realms, Frans has once again crafted some carefully aimed arrows on his bow7 tricks to simplify your programs with LINQ - Igor Ostrovsky
SQL Parameter Sniffing and what to do about it - Chris Brandsma
Interesting things SQL Server does behind your backMrBabyMan: Digg Users Revolt, Against the One Pure Man at the Top - Marshall Kirkpatrick
subcultures like Digg: you love them or hate, but I’m sometimes amazed at the sheer number of people that seem to spend all their time thereBuilding a Pub/Sub Message Bus with WCF and MSMQ - Tom Hollander
Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta: AVOID - Oren Eini
Was not really thinking about installing SP1, but with this advice I can completely forget about it. There’s better ways to spend the small amount of hours we have been given2D Map Editor - SK Genius
Reminds me of a long, long time agoALT.Consultancy: Reflections on doing it my way - Christopher Bennage
Great story on starting out on your own, but with two like-minded souls, so you can share the burden that working on your own inevitably brings
Writing Unit Tests as Programmer’s Warm-Up - Slava Imeshev
‘ You can induce the flow by starting your day with writing unit tests ‘ At first a bit sceptical, but starting tha day writing some tests, thereby improving your codebase a bit, might even be better than mindless web surfing
*** What would it cost to build this site? - Follow Steph
‘ If it only cost a few thousand to successfully build this system [hertz.com ed.], than all software, and I mean ALL software, would be outsourced ‘ Right on, remember that developers are NOT able to give ballpark figures for whatever estimationBenefits Of Online Repositories - Abhijit Nadgouda
Abhijit compares the Linux way of online software repo’s that can be directly used from the desktop with the Windows way, which is more of a hassle. Points Linux on usability hereAnd now I present you with… Bitter - Mike Hall
Looks nicer than Twhirl, if Twitter is becoming more a part of my daily routine than now, I will definitely give this a try!
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