LINKBLOG for May 29, 2008
May 29th, 2008 by AZuidhof
WCF Callbacks; a beginners guide - Barry Dorrans
Nederland ‘kampioen’ eigen burgers aftappen - Webwereld
Shocking: in one day the Dutch government listens in on phone calls as much as the complete US governemnt in a whole year!
English translation hereWhen does design happen in agile? - Ian Cooper
Interesting point! ‘ The short answer is ‘all the time’ and ‘just-in-time’. The long version is ‘all the time’ in that we are always thinking about design during story gathering, planning etc ‘Is Automated Software Testing Enough? - Miguel Carrasco
State coverage, Feedback/Adhoc testing, and why your Code Coverage percentage can be misleadingStored procedure reporting & scalability
Beware of your databases ‘ (…) a common theme is that databases are one of the hardest parts of your architecture to scale ‘5 Questions That Will Save You Time And Money - Thursday Bram
Learn how to get a free massage on this productivity post, no joke!Resharper - Code Browsing & Code Editing Screencasts - Sendhil Kumar
Two short screencasts on using Re#Writing Bad Unit Tests - Chris McDonough
Although this looks like Python to me, you get some good info on what constitutes a good unit testSpread Firefox | Download Day 2008
Mozilla is trying to get a new World Record “most download in 24 hour”. 69K people already pledged, but what I can’t find…how many are neccesssary?Multiple Generic IEnumerable<T> - Tim M
It’s Time to Get Serious About Security - Mike Hall
Having a non-secure website is bad enough, but ignoring customers who take the time to spell this out for you … how would you feel if you’re the guy/gal that spelled their email address wrong with this possible consequenceComparative Speed Testing - Warrick Procter
‘ A simple-to-use class for performing comparative, non-benchmarked speed tests when optimising code for execution speed ‘Podcast #7 - stackoverflow
must have missed some…
‘ It’s a pretty interesting debate, and at the end of the day, it really comes down to what language meets your needs ‘Overloaded Methods as WCF OperationContracts - Igloo Coder
Change Is Good…You Go First - Blake Caraway
‘ EVERY person in each organization within a company should be encouraged and inspired to continuously improve how they provide value to the company ‘ Take note of the EVERY, meaning this goes from the lowest to the highest ranksDon’t play limbo with your goals - Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo
Can’t help to link to J-P again, as he’s explaining passion in such beatiful ways. Thanks!
‘ Anything worth having should not come easy, you should need to work for things to make them a reality ‘Chris Spagnuolo’s GeoScrum - Agile adoption: Why isn’t this stuff working?
Good article. Only thing is that I have some problems imagining how you can start agile in stealth mode towards the customer, as it requires a complete other involvement from them than they’re probably used toWhy Good Architecture is Important Even in a Web 2.0 World - Mike Walker
Scalability, Digg, Twitter. The first has adapted, the second still working on it franticallyTraversing Xml - Mo Khan
Some ideas to get more grip on XML and traversing XML treesTime Management Guru-itis: Mark Hurst vs. David Allen and Tim Ferriss | The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
‘ Eliminate before you optimize ‘
If Tim Ferriss speaks about Stephen Covey (7 habits) and David Allen (GTD) in this regard, you get interesting stuff4 Upgrades for Your Personal Workspace - Mike Gunderloy
in the sense of Tim’s post above here’s some more productivty tipsNFRs for system replacements - Simon Brown
Non-functional requirements are easily forgotten in the race to 1.0
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