LINKBLOG for June 19, 2008
Jun 19th, 2008 by AZuidhof
SubSonic: Writing Decoupled, Testable Code With SubSonic 2.1 - Rob Conery
The Five Most Common Mistakes of Male Freelancers - Joel Falconer
Thanks Jason!Delegating Decorators - Phil Haack
Phil fiddles with Delegates and LambdasLive Geometry with Silverlight 2 - Kirill Osenkov
‘ an interactive designer for ruler-and-compass constructions - it lets you plot points, connect them with lines, construct circles, intersection points, parallel lines ‘ Accompanied with recalculation on-the-fly this sounds really cool (disclaimer: didn’t invest the time to install the SL2 Beta 2 though)Why would you want to write your own WYSIWYG editor? - Joe Stagner
Really, why would you? Joe has a huge overview of editors free for the taking. If not, go and indulge in your NIH syndromeHow to Make Yourself Indispensable - Dustin Wax
‘ If you didn’t show up at work tomorrow, if you weren’t home at 6:00 for dinner, if nobody ever heard from or saw you again, would it matter? ‘Five Things the Boss Should Know About Microsoft’s LINQ - John Paul Mueller
‘ 1. Developers Can Access New Technologies Without Knowing Much About Them ‘ Huh, does the author think we’re heading in a direction where development gets easier, or what?Open Thread: Your Biggest Web Working Blunder - Mike Gunderloy
Mike’s confession, more in the commentsFoundations of Programming - pt 9 - Proxy This and Proxy That - Karl Seguin
‘ the proxy design pattern is a class that behaves like another class. For example, if we were building a task tracking system, we might decide to use a proxy to transparently apply authorization on top of a task object ‘Don’t be clever 2 - The cost of cleverness
‘ You do run your production apps in release mode, right? ‘ I do know of someone who does this
Receiving someone else’s mail - Help Center
Received mail on my Gmail account with a dot in it (where I don’t have any before the @). Turns out Gmail doesn’t matter how many dots you plug in there… clever, that’s what I call userfriendlyness!Logging with Castle Windsor, the Logging Facility and log4net - Casey Charlton
‘ A simple solution, and a perfect example of why an IoC container can simplify your code ‘
‘ If you are a ReSharper user (I know many of you are) and you are NOT taking advantage of the LiveTemplates feature, you are really not maximizing your productivity ‘ Learned something new here. Thanks!Test Execution Problem in VS2008 - Jim Holmes
Jim encounters a nasty documented showstopper (for him) but in VS2008The Difference Between Neat and Necessary - Stackhouse
‘ Don’t let the customer team, management or marketing foist implementation on you ‘A Simple Code Generator - Mohammad Azam
Delegates, Events, Event Arguments & How They Fit Together - Harvey Saayman
A need-to-know if you ever spend time debugging in Visual StudioBuild Your Own Reddit With Reddit - Josh Catone
Big news, if you like to read Python ‘ Reddit is open sourcing their code ‘
‘ Social Media Addicts - Sink or Swim? ‘
part 2 is hereUnit Testing: Rules of Thumb - Federico Cargnelutti
skewed against TDDSoftware’s Dirty Little Secret - Larry Greenemeier
‘ An interview with Grady Booch, the Indiana Jones of computer programming ‘We Don’t Need No Architects - Joseph Hofstader
‘ One of the main responsibilities of an architect is to communicate the solution to technical and nontechnical stakeholders ‘
From the MSDN Architecture Journal, have you already discovered it?When You See a Green Light, Keep Moving! - Jarkko Laine
‘ take a look at the world around you, and if you see these green lights, don’t stop, but keep pushing through all obstacles that try to block your way ‘Just 4 Hours? - Mo Khan
Tim Ferriss video. I just finished the book some weeks ago. Guess it really *is* possible, but it would require major changes in the way I live now. But if you’re still checking Outlook 200 times a day and find this normal, the message might be for you!
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