LINKBLOG for May 27, 2008
May 27th, 2008 by AZuidhof
How Should You Update Your Application? – Mike Hall
We can automate everything, up untill installing new versions of our software on users’ machines, but should we? Mike has some thoughts on how far we could go here, and the (dis)advantages our choices bring[ANN] Dimecasts.net is Alive and Kicking – Derik Whittaker
New screencast site dedicated to a variety of topics (starting with NUnit), in under 10 minutes, ranging from Intro to the Master levelEye On .NET 2 – Hisham Elbreky
New link blog?How to Select a Fine Technical Manager – Jurgen Appelo
‘ Solution: Give the job to a technical person who never asked for it! ‘
Great article, and by far the coolest, and at least most unexpected answer to this question!Hanselminutes Podcast 114 – Website Scaling War Stories with Richard Campbell
‘ I sit down with my good friend Richard Campbell and we share stories about scaling large websites over the years ‘KoffeeKoder Changed to Resource Website – Mohammad Azam
Castle Demo App #3: Saving time and effort with advanced Monorail features – Gojko Adzic
Describes the third iteration of building a web app on .NET using MonoRail (MVC framework that runs on top of .NET 2.0). Interesting stuff, it’s really different when you’re not used to working the MVC way.NET – VSTS – How to create and deploy custom check-in policy – Dot Net Curry
‘ Check-in policy is a watch dog (…) Team Foundation Server has three built in check-in policies ‘ Policies can be irritating from time to time but if the team agrees on a standard, why should they *not* be put in place?ASP.NET without ASP.NET – A good coding font makes a difference
I use Consolas, free font available here.This author found another one. If you work with the default, al least try another one for once: you won’t regret it.Revisit the Game of Life while learning about extension methods in C# – Johan Fourie
Fun project, check it out if you have some spare time..Book Review: C# in Depth – Patrick Smacchia
‘ C# in depth is likely the best book available today to become a better C# programmer ‘Using Invoke to access object in a windows forms/controls thread – Daily Coding
Small code tipGet the Service Endpoint address a Client is accessing in WCF – Dan Rigsby
The future of .NET, Visual Studio and more – Joni Moilanen
This author did some intensive homework by going in the other direction: if Microsoft doesn’t give us info on their new products, let’s investigate their job ads, and see what they’re looking for.This is all speculation, but there’s some interesting stuff
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