LINKBLOG for July 1, 2008
Jul 1st, 2008 by AZuidhof
Tree Surgeon 2.0 Released – Bil Simser
‘ Have you ever spent a few days setting up a new development tree? ‘Scale Cheaply – Sharding – Karl Seguin
‘ Despite what an “engagement consultant” might tell you though, most of the high-traffic websites on the web (google, digg, facebook) rely on far cheaper and better strategies: the core of which is called sharding ‘Beginners Guide To Threading In .NET Part 3 of n – Sacha Barber
A Lap Around Microsoft “Velocity” – Cache It NOW! – Bart de Smet
getting Velocity up and runningThe problem with “I’ll wait until my manager sends me to training” – Tim Stall
Wating for someone else to fix your problems is like waiting for a solar eclipse to happen: you know that maybe someday one will happen, but then again, maybe not in your lifetimeAdvice to a young programmer – John Graham-Cumming
Would you trust Twitter to handle money payments? – Greg Hughes
I don’t trust Twitter with anything, it’s down again. Don’t want to constantly be troubled with someone else’s scaling issues, so time for something new. But I just get too tired to join new services every other day…The Spirit of Open Source – Netiquette can be subtle – Scott Hanselman
sad story of how a passionate open source developer finds himself with a copycat taking advantage of his name in the ‘industry’, and gets disappointed as a resultReSharper Tip of the Day: Custom Live Templates – Ontological Reciprocity
How to publish your own book – Gojko Adzic
Lots of lessons learned, mabye the most important:
‘ Lesson #7: Everything takes much longer than you expect ‘Why Are We Still Using Business Cards? – Esther Schindler
yes, why? Intriguing question actually*** [post of the day] Opportunity in a gorilla suit – Eric Brechner
‘ No, you fools, opportunities aren’t rare and they aren’t hidden. Opportunities are big, loud, and aromatic ‘ Clear managerial advice for you developers: every problem is an opportunity to work on (and put yourselves in the picture in the process)Venturing into ASP.NET MVC – J Wynia
‘ When you suddenly get ASP.NET masking that stateless nature, many of those techniques have to be completely changed ‘ Postbacks, Viewstate: not anymore. Microsoft has implemented a way to do it just like everyone else: truely statelessBinding in ASP.NET MVC – Bart Reyserhove
Creating a TypeConverter for your own domain objectsASP.NET Design Patterns, Test Driven Development and Agile Development Book List – Stephen Walther
Interesting books here!Smaller Lies – Sergio Pereira
Great quote to get you thinking ‘ Teaching is like telling a smaller lie everyday ‘
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