LINKBLOG for June 16, 2008
Jun 16th, 2008 by AZuidhof
How to Get Your Clients to Change - Celine Roque
When thinking about your client’s behavior, it’s best to start with yourself. Have you done everything you could to make communication timely, efficient, and clear?Do Specialists Outperform Generalists on an Agile Team? - Vikas Hazrati
And more: are generalists even needed in an agile team…Better Terrain Representation in Google Maps - Ionut Alex Chitu
As I hiker I find it very cool that Maps now has contour lines! Only wonder how recent the maps are, cause if you want to use them for snow trips, the best thing is your map is not too outdatedHave You Checked Out Thirsty Developer Lately? - Angela Binkowski
Completely rediscovered podcasts as a way to keep up the last weeks
via Alvin AshcraftQuickly Analyze Long Pieces of Text with Tag Clouds - Amit Agarwal
Cool, creating tag clouds on the fly, for your own website, a document, or any other url you likeSuper Models, Part 1: Sexy Specifications - Dave Laribee
‘ (…) as we move into more complex composite specifications little differences like these really start to reduce the mental tax associated with parsing a model which, to me, is a big, big deal ‘What is Old is New Again: Functional Programming - Shawn Poulson
‘ …it seems the latest hot idea is Functional Programming. Wikipedia dates this concept back to 1950’s with the introduction of LISP ‘
Nice clear post explaining fuctional programming in a pre-LINQ way to get set based results with IEnumerable<T> and the likeTesters! Are You Uneasy About The Transition To Agile Testing? You Are Not Alone - Kelly Waters
Alog with agile development comes agile testing: watch this 1 hr video on what it’s all about from the perspective of a professional testerKnowing When to Quit - Seeds of Growth
‘ For the entrepreneur there is the added element of emotion. We get attached to our ideas and hang on too long ‘
Good insight, me would say
via Jason HaleyMy design process - Oren Eini
‘ I routinely modify the foundation of the system for the first part of the project, until it stable enough to fit what I want it to do comfortably ‘ No BDUF in Oren’s design strategyLINQ to MSI - Part 1 bis - Interop with SafeHandles - Bart de Smet
New to WPF? ‘ This post explains how to create a minimal WPF application that produces a single window with a gradient in it (…) ‘.NET Regular Expressions Find and Replace Add-In for VS2005 - JHillman
This add-in is for anyone who wants to use Regular Expressions to find and replace in Visual Studio, but doesn’t want to use the strange Regular Expression syntax of the built-in dialogNew to Developing within Virtual PCs? - Robert Shelton
‘ Read the Getting Started with Virtual PC 2007 Article ‘
Like this piece of advice, I love using Virtual Machines for everything from testing to trying out new stuff possibly wreaking havoc on my ‘real’ machineDigital Identity, Privacy, and the Internet’s Missing Identity Layer - Kim Cameron
Information aggregation yields power: ‘ How does this fundamental tendency of information to reorganize itself relate to digital identity? ‘C# Glorified : Nemerle! - Onur Gümüş
‘ Nemerle is a CLR based programming language. Just like C#. It works on .NET and mono ‘
‘Nother language new to me: has things like DesignByContract - notice the nifty MartinFowler notation style
- builtinA Question you should ask when hiring a non-entry level developer - Jay Kimble
Kind of agree here. A (web) developer these days (and days long gone) should be able to recognize SQL Injection from a mile distance
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