LINKBLOG for May 28, 2008
May 28th, 2008 by AZuidhof
Eindhoven, June 26 2008: Seeing Alistair Cockburn live (and for free!) - Sioux Embedded Systems
via Marc Evers. This is a wonderful opportunity to go and see one of the most wellknown people in the agile movementAdding files to TFS Team System Version Control - Kirstin Juhl
‘ When you add files to your project (…), the new file appears in your solution with a yellow cross to indicate that is new and does not yet exist in source control ‘
which is quite helpful indeed*** Regarding Passion!! - Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo
From the first looks the video’s Jean-Paul mentions are really worthwile to check out for those of us trying to overcome their minority complex (and everyone else of course)BackgroundWorker - Daniel Moth
If you do UI develoment and don’t know the BackgroundWorker classStop Trying to Be Liked and Start Being You - Stepcase Lifehack
‘ Newsflash 4: Some people’s overwhelming need to be liked is the very thing that makes them hard to like (there’s some irony for you) ‘
Yeah… nothing wrong with a good discussion every now and thenHow attendees can help deliver a better webcast - Simone Chiaretta
WCF Metadata - Dan Rigsby
Explanation of metadata and how this is implemented inWCF
‘ what is this metadata? Metadata is basically to describe how to interact with the service’s endpoints ‘RhinoCommons, NHibernate and ASP.NET MVC Part 4 - The MVC Application - Ryan Lanciaux
Next Episode Coming Soon or Why Backups Are Important - James Kovacs
‘ So do yourself a favour and make sure your backups are in order. You never know when you’re going to need them next… ‘ A gentle reminder while it’s not too lateWhy Agile Doesn’t Really Work - David Starr
As a relatively newcomer in Agile country, I can imagine some of David’s points. However, AFAIK Agile was never meant to be used in *every* situation, but it’s dependent on your organisation model; e.g. in my current company complete agile wouldn’t workTesting Domain Specific Languages - Oren Eini
Some Common Conversion Functions – Part I - .NET Curry
Introducing Quality-first Notions Into an Existing Team - Chad Myers
On why you should - or shouldn’t - introduce TDD when everything is going swell: start asking yourself hard questions like ‘can I make my suppossedly happy customer even more happy?’. While this can be difficult it might be worth itThe role of architecture in agile development - Kevlin Henney
Basically saying: if your architecture is not responsive to change, you have a problemExtended LINQ: additional operators for LINQ to objects - Igor Ostrovsky
A whole battery of operators for inclusion in your (LINQ)libraryAgile Requirements Modeling - Scott W. Ambler
‘ Agilists know that if they have the ability to elicit detailed requirements up front then they can also do the same when they actually need the information ‘
Key idea in Agile that blows most people away: don’t gather reqs upfrontASP.NET MVC Preview 3 Release - Scott Guthrie
Another lengthy post from ScottGu on the latest ASP.NET MVC preview ‘ We are starting to feel good about the URL routing and Controller/Action programming model of MVC, and feel that those areas are starting to bake really well ‘Updated Northwind Demo For ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 - Phil Haack
‘ There ain’t no party like a Northwind Party ‘
If you on the bleeding edge and want ready-to-rock sample code based on this new preview
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