LINKBLOG for June 23, 2008
Jun 23rd, 2008 by AZuidhof
ASP.NET Routing and Authorization – Mike Ormond
How trustworthy can OpenID be if the developers of it like SixApart themselves don’t trust it? – Dana Epp
‘ The people that helped build the technology don’t dogfood it themselves for their own commercial web applications ‘ Apart from that (no pun intended) OpenID still suffers from the problem that *you* have to trust the gateway that *I* have set upVisual Studio Links #40 – Darren Stokes
Catch-up on last week’s Visual Studio posts10 reasons why SQL Server 2008 is going to rock – Angry Hacker
No 1 reason Intellisense. Mmm, guess I’m out of database world to know whether this rocks as much as the author saysLTD Puzzle 3: ASCII Art Shapes – Damber
Objectively evaluating O/R Mappers (or how to make it easy to dump NHibernate) – Jeffrey Palermo
‘ How do we ensure the long-term maintainability of our systems in the face of constantly changing infrastructure? ‘Your New Process (Some Assembly Required) – Max Pool
‘ It pisses me off to no end when a poorly executed project is blamed on the process. What a bunch of bullshit! It isn’t the poor process’s fault – it is the crap job of the people executing it ‘
AFAIK Max is not known for sending unclear messages in the world. This is a clear example.The ICallbackEventHandler – Sunny Chaganty
Road Rage – xkcd
war driving taken a step furtherThe Ultimate Code Kata – Jeff Atwood
Main point here is that once you stop developing yourself, you will become obsolete before you know it: practive-practice-practice!Can Refactoring Grow Out of Control? – Jurgen Appelo
‘ If you understand how to keep your options open, and make the necessary architectural decisions consciously, then I think all should be fine! ‘Automated Regression Testing: Why, What and How – Frank Kelly
‘ Having a great suite of regression tests brings great confidence for a team of developers – who are often frankly a pessimistic lot – ‘
Entertaining post covererd with lots of examplesWaterfall Projects Create Naivete – Johanna Rothman
on “requirements complete” and “feature freeze”: ‘ We know the requirements are not complete. We know the features will change ‘Refactoring an established Domain Model – Sean Chambers
Keep tabs on white space in Visual Studio – Matt Hinze
small VS tipCommunication Waste – Igloo Coder
Eliminating waste: ‘ Three different views on the same thing. Does the business get any increased value by having these three representations created? Probably not ‘Are you “really” using Scrum? – Greg Duncan
Go and See for Yourself (Genchi Genbutsu) – Scott Reynolds
Tenet of Lean Manufacturing ‘ there is no substitute for being in the place, directly observing the people and machine processes, and when possible, putting your hands into the production line (…)’Clutter: Extreme Lifehacker Home Office Makeover – Jason Fitzpatrick
Radically emoving the clutter from your home office by compeltely redesigning it from scratch
Cool keyboard jedi tip! Select text in a Word document and remove all formatting with one keystroke: Control-Space
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