LINKBLOG for May 31, 2008
May 31st, 2008 by AZuidhof
Resharper: The New Software Estimating Tool - D. P. Bullington
‘ In a nutshell, I was able to play an estimating game at the source code usage level, with the help of trusty ole Resharper ‘Functional Programming - lessons from high-school arithmetic - Andrew Matthews
20 Years Later IRC is Still Useful; Are You Taking Advantage of it? - Rick Minerich
Unit testing vs. Integration Testing : The Restaurant Analogy - Roy Osherove
Which makes unittesting a typically Dutch thing, in Roy’s analogy. See what I mean
String.Replace() Does NOT Have A Bug - George P. Alexander Jr.
Ha. Know your reference and value types!.NET Internals and Native Compiling - Daniel Pistelli
Overwhelmingly deep on my first inspection, so if you like a level 300 article with lots of C++, have a lookReSharper Introspection Severity and the var Keyword - David Hayden
Good piece of advice here: If you don’t like how a tool like Re# interacts with your known environment, do look at the Options first before uninstalling
‘ Since exceptions are unavoidable you can neither run nor hide, so you might as well leverage ‘Free Windows TCP/IP Fundamentals eBook - Greg Duncan
‘ Because sometimes you just need 559 pages of TCP/IP… ‘Professionalism, Programming, and Punditry and Success as a Metric - Scott Hanselman
The Email Attachment Problem and How We’re Not Solving It - Judi Sohn
For within the business the solution to the attachment hell is creating some kind of repository (whatever works for you, maybe project/product related) and put everything in there. Link to the repo from your email. Easy enough.There is no business like office business - Michael Stal
Work/life balance, 8+ hrs a day will give you diminishing returns on invested time:old wisdom, but still holding trueWhat’s Better Self-Promotion: Speaking or Blogging? - Rob Walling
‘ Like many software developers I’m afflicted with ‘What’s Next?’ Syndrome. It’s a disease whereby you’re never content with your situation, no matter how cool it is(..) ‘We Need Better Testing Bloggers - James Bach
As a developer I’ve always found it strange why you don’t find a lot of really good test-related blogs (or maybe I didn’t look hard enough). As a developer I try to be low-profile on testing , better leave real testing (apart from unit-testing!) to the expertsTesting - Kirill Osenkov
‘ If you’re interested in testing or would like to learn more about it, here are a couple of links: ‘
Microsoft / VisualStudio oriented
Another new podcast in town6 Great Tools For Writing a Book - John Papa
5 Tips for E-mailing Busy People - Tim Ferriss
And if Tim says he will more likely respond to email if you follow at least these tips, anyone willSimple State Machine - Oren Eini
Clever versus Wise - Glen Alleman
‘ A Clever person solves a problem
A Wise person avoids it ‘Meetings, Project Portfolio, and Lean - Johanna Rothman
CIO as an Architect of the Business - Dan Foody
‘ (…) who do you trust? You trust the person that listens instead of talks. The person that takes input instead of dictating ‘Agile development practices at Microsoft - Ade Miller
Ade points to (a pointer to) an interesting Microsoft Research paper
‘ Usage and Perceptions of Agile Software Development in an Industrial Context: An Exploratory Study ‘Mocking Still Not Quite There For Me - Brad Wilson
Me glad me’s not the last one trying to grasp the deeper concepts of mocking frameworks. But more and more I’m getting convinced about the importance of testing in isolationTwitterQuote - Marc Brooks
‘ Proverbs 27:17: Even God advocates pair programming ‘ I checked, and it’s true
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