LINKBLOG for June 4, 2008
Jun 4th, 2008 by AZuidhof
*** Failures of aimless large-scale refactorings – Jimmy Bogard
‘ Another angle of attack besides charging up the hill to the machine gun nest, armed with only a bayonet, is to take a more strategic aim at de-gunking your system ‘
Completely refactoring your legacy app? Think again!ReSharper 4.0 Release Candidate – Ilya Ryzhenkov
Good news never comes too late, I’d sayReview: Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with NUnit, 2nd Ed. – Ben Watson
Setting Up Velocity (Distributed Cache) – Scott Watermasysk
Including sample code to make it workThis Is Agile Working Well – David Starr
‘ If you know this is the right way to do the work, why are you even offering another option ‘ Refreshing thought: *now* is the timeFront-end vs. back-end developers – Mads Kristensen
‘ If there is one thing back-end devs hate more than Cirque du Soleil, it’s JavaScript, stylesheets and HTML ‘Future of .NET – Mohammad Azam
Mohammad explores the direction we’re taking with .NET, as he sees itDealing with anonymous types in Reflection.Emit – Bart de Smet
Exploring ‘ (…) the concept of compiling expression tree lamdas on the fly to IL-code ‘Staying Humble – Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo
‘ If that section in bold does not scream TDD to you, then I don’t know what will!! ‘
Jean Paul ‘discovers’ that Edgser Dijkstra already knew about TDD back in 1972ASP.NET MVC Controller Action Precondition Filter v2 now part of MVCContrib project – Troy DeMonbreun
Extending the ASP.Net MVC FrameworkCopy-Paste Reasoning (or Adapt, Skip Adopt) – Jurgen Appelo
‘ That’s why I suggest that you use only Copy-Paste Special… ‘ Had to read this tree times before recognizing the analogy (maybe a bit slow today)The Never-Shipping Product – Max Kanat-Alexander
‘ (…) your software just has to do what it does well, and you will be succeed, if that purpose is something people need ‘
Some real life suggestions on why exactly your projects are failing. Scope creep to the extreme5 Tips to becomming a better coder – Omar AlBadri
Train Yourself Smarter – Cecilia Weckstrom
‘ Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself ‘
Improving yourself – in whatever way – never goes automatically, requires *some* dedication without causing a complete burn-outReuse good — Abstractions better! – Leon Bambrick
‘ My real feelings about the concept of coining a new term ‘upsert’ are simple:
Don’t do it! ‘Skeletons In The Closet – Mo Khan
‘ Have you ever experienced that feeling of when you bring someone new in to a team, and you subconsciously wonder how they’re going to upset the balance of the team ‘Unit testing custom workflow activities – Maurice de Beijer
‘ Now this is where most people stop because the ActivityExecutionContext is a sealed type and sealed types cannot be mocked! But (…) TypeMock can mock just about anything! ‘
I just started investigating TypeMock, so this was interesting to meWhat’s Wrong With This Picture? – Peter Seale
Hope this is not your company. Did you spot the problem? via Twitter/ Ben ScheirmanTechEd 2008 Keynote Summary – Jon Galloway
OK, don’t expect too much on TechEd here. Either you’re there, or you’re not (that is: us reading and writing this blog though). And those who are not there, are either not interested, or get swarmed with TechEd news anyhow.
Sorry for the blatheringUnit Testing Pitfalls – Kevin Berridge
‘ (…) TDD is all the rage these days (…) Of course, the reality is probably that almost no one is doing it, but many people think its a good idea ‘
Hey, this quote should alone should be enough to go read this
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