LINKBLOG for June 11, 2008
Jun 11th, 2008 by AZuidhof
*** Great site for learning and understanding LINQ – Robert Shelton
Deeplinking in Silverlight – Ruurd Boeke
‘ as computing power increases and humans become more accustomed to great applications, html as a platform does not deliver anymore ‘A “Friday the Thirteenths” Solution – Mike Bosch
Book Review: C# In Depth – Rhonda Tipton
Custom Visual Studio Visualizer – Saqib Ullah
Cool debugging tip. My gripe with the old way of extending these visualisers, is that your code gets so bloated with all kinds of attributes. Not anymore if you roll your own thing and e.g. have image preview right withing Visual Studio!.NET Memory control : Use GCHandle to pin down the objects – Shafqat Ahmed
ShafqatAgile Kaikaku – Alt.NET Podcast # 4
Agile what? Listen and you will learn some JapaneseTemplex – The Process Template sharing project we’ve (TFS’ers) have all been waiting for? – Greg Duncan
If you’ve been messing around with TFS process templates you just know what a drag it is. Good that we have another hole plugged in the TFS areaHow to Link/Share files between projects in Visual Studio – DimeCasts.Net # 10
webcastTurn Google Docs Into an RSS Reader and Feed Aggregator – Amit Agarwal
OK nice, but only if you like to write Excel-like stuff ‘ In cell B2, type =ImportFeed(A1, “Items URL”, FALSE, 10) ‘Building A Solid Core – Your Future Is Right Ahead Of You – The Contest!!! – Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo
More contests: send in a true story about how you’re having an influence on the people you work with and win!The Language of Mocks (or is that Test Doubles) – Casey Charlton
‘ (…) the term “mock” has become almost a defacto term for what Martin Fowler et al refer to as a Test Double, whilst also being a Mock with a capital M for describing the Mock that most mock frameworks create ‘Behind the scenes of the C# yield keyword « .Net Braindrops
‘ I thought it could be interesting to know how the yield keyword works behind the scenes ‘Help Decide Sandcastle’s Fate – Troy Goode
by giving your take on the removal of Sandcastle from CodeplexThe Cost of Defects – Evan Hoff
I’d say that if you’re doing software estimation fulltime since 1971, that alone is worth a quote!
‘ NDepend includes a list of CQL rules and queries in VisualStudio that will update it in real-time each time the developer compiles ‘Save FxCop Messages to XML Report Only – Dave Donaldson
‘ Or in other words, how to make FxCop *not* fail your builds… ‘Coding Horror: Exploring Wide Finder
‘ I have decidedly mixed feelings about the book Beautiful Code, but one of the better chapters is Tim Bray’s “Finding Things” ”
In complete agreement here! While a good book overall, Tim’s chapter is by far the most interesting one, because it is concise and actually showing a real-life (and easy to understand for us mere mortals; as opposed to many of the other chapters which are … let’s say, on a scientifically higher level than is good for a pragmatic developer) exampleVisual Studio UX Taskforce, Office UX Taskforce… etc. – Leon Bambrick
Plugging a gap in my daily report, hadn’t seen this a new ‘phenomenon’ until now: pointer to a new digg-like site where you can vote for the most pressing/irritating UX quirks in VistaWhy it’s better to be lazy – Jeremy Meyer
‘ Ah, that old chestnut. A swallowed, unlogged, unreported exception. It was lucky that I picked it up in the code review. This is a fine example of active stupidity in programming ‘ Can’t misinterpret this opinionated post…The Dynamic Language Advantage: A Concrete Example – Russell Ball
‘ I’ve just had way too many experiences where I thought I understood something only to be proven wrong when I finally had the opportunity to roll up my sleeves (…) ‘ Honest confession, and to be honest myself, I can relate to this…Star Trek – The Original Series Video – CBS.com
for you sci-fi nerds: seems like here’s the complete Trekkie series available online!
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