LINKBLOG for June 5, 2008
Jun 5th, 2008 by AZuidhof
Agile Tools vs. Agile Books- Paul J. Heidema
Which is better: using tools, reading books, or both?How to Use Parkinson’s Law to Your Advantage - Joel Falconer
Which was ‘ Work expands to fill the time available for its completion ‘Programming Twitter with WCF 3.5 - Dariusz
code for this project available if you likeSpeaking of Scrum – “Scrum in Five Minutes” - Greg Duncan
‘ For a quick intro to Scrum I think this would be hard to beat ‘ [pdf]Becoming a Jedi - Part 2 of N - James Kovacs
Nice simple intro to ReSharper (Re#, in case you’re wondering what everyone is talking about?)Simplify string resources management for localization - Ramon Smits
Some tips and utils to help you managing those resx filesSubSonic: RIP? - Rob Conery
Outlook Attachment Remover Frees Up Inbox Disk Space - Gina Trapani
Now this will help if your employer emposes those irritating mailbox limitsWhy Unit Test - Evan Linden
What do you gain if your code is unittested, here are some good pointsPlaying with SlickEdit - Jim Holmes
.NET Database Migration Tool Roundup - Ben Scheirman
Roundup of the available tools in this domainWhy Microsoft Won’t/Can’t/Shouldn’t Lead - Chad Myers
‘ Currently, Microsoft delivers only what is expected of them and they have no reason to do otherwise. Sometimes this results in spectacular successes, sometimes spectacular failures, but usually mediocrity ‘.NET Cross AppDomain Communication - The Code King
‘ An easy-to-use, zero configuration solution to .NET communication across application boundaries. A simple library to use as an alternative to .NET Remoting based on low-level Windows Messaging ‘
‘ describes three approaches to parsing the sentences from a body of text ‘Language Oriented Programming and Functional Unit Testing in F# - Matthew Podwysocki
A Programming Job Interview Challenge #6 - C# Games - Sharar A
TDD Tips: Test Naming Conventions & Guidelines - Bryan
bryanPodcast #8 - stackoverflow
Architecting Twitter - Oren Eini
free advice for Twitter’s architectsDependency Injection with Unity and Linq to SQL DataContexts - Ade Miller
4 Tips for Juggling Multiple Projects - Mike Gunderloy
Maybe the best one is about knowing which is your *first* next deadline among the whole project base. This keeps you focused on what must be done NOWPremature Optimization? - Brett Schuchert
‘ I am not arguing against the use of sealed or final. I will say that in my practice, it has to be justified to be used rather than the other way around ‘Location Awareness: Scientist Admits to Secretly Tracking 100K+ Peoples’ Phones - Marshall Kirkpatrick
‘ CNN reports tonight about definite example of cell phone location privacy intentionally violated without the knowledge of the phone owners ‘ Research data was gathered in an unmentioned ountry outdide the US. This is - if true - more shocking than you may realize. It’s about loosing trust in our governments: while not being mandated by the government, this study is carried out without strong opposition from the political field (AFAIK), so implicitly approved. We are already facing <a href=”http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/06/more_on_airplan.html”>cameras in airplane seats</a> to pick out potential terrorists (which poses the interesting question: what will happen when a -false?- alarm will go off); what’s next?10 things you should do near the end of a project - Bill Stronge
What you call integration testing, I call sloppy programming - Tony Morris
Thought whether I should link this article full of CopyPaste arguments as Jurgen called it yesterday. You can chime in in the comments if you want to take the trouble. Or maybe better ….Levels of Enthusiasm - Rick Strahl
Where are you at the moment: Inspired and Wired, in the Rat Race, or even in the Pressure Cooker?
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