LINKBLOG for July 2, 2008
Jul 2nd, 2008 by AZuidhof
LINQ To SQL: Surprising Features – Sasha Goldshtein
Relativism, crucibles and criticism – Matt Hinze
Lost Treasures of the DOS World: tree! – Leon Bambrick
‘ I luckily stumbled onto a long forgotten gem today — the Tree command in DOS ‘
Even in 2008 DOS is still a cool quick-hack way to get simple things doneHealth monitoring action filter for ASP.NET MVC – Alex Thissen
Interesting use for an action filter in MVCBattling Imposter Syndrome – Mike Gunderloy
If every now and then you think you’re a big nothing, you are not alone
‘ … passive income means that you make money from something that requires very little regular maintenance, if at al ‘ Seems like a nice Tim Ferriss way to gain incomeProduct Management Philosophy – Scott Sehlhorst
train of thoughts for some sort of PM manifestoChallenge: What is wrong with this code – Oren Eini
‘ Let us assume that we have the following piece of code. It has a big problem in it. The kind of problem that you get called at 2 AM to solve ‘Let’s see, if I… – Jeremy D. Miller
‘ The correct course of action Grasshopper is to GOOGLE IT FIRST!!!! ‘
‘ many have a tendency to go off on pretty advanced topics, yet not provide enough for those just starting to get the full context ‘ right on. This is a pet peeve of mine recently: topics are so advanced, that beginners are completely scared away, thus instead of getting them to change from programmers to developers, we loose them, and the opportunity to improve the overall level of professionalism in our field. Which is a shameSergey Is Leaving Google For Microsoft (Not THAT Sergey…) – Eran Kampf
‘ Maybe some of us in the industry were writing off Microsoft and crowning Google a little bit too soon… ‘SOA: Making the Paradigm Shift Part 10 of N – Sam Gentile
‘ A subject of much debate is whether an ESB is a pattern or product. The most obvious answer would seem to be “both” ‘SQL Join Resources – Rhonda Tipton
SQL has many join types, Rhonda nicely lines them up and provides some pointersASP.NET MVC Tip #12 – Faking the Controller Context – Stephen Walther
Dependency Injection is Dead! – Simon Ince
Catchy title… ‘ I personally love Dependency Injection, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t without its flaws ‘Developer training, a real (non)success story – Derik Whittaker
Lesson learned: ‘ The moral of the story here is that training new employees is painful, it is hard and it can be expensive. However, not training them can be even more painful ‘The ASP.NET MVC Information Portal – Michael Eaton
Michael points to a new portalInherit to Be Reused, Not to Reuse – Peter Provost
‘ Everyone knows that coupling is bad and cohesion is good, but we still couple like mad via inheritance ‘Listen to Podcasts in Less Time – stackoverflow
Jeff has a productivity tip to cram even more stuff in your dayCool Agile Estimation Tool that is Free – Michael Azocar
Tool helping you do estimation by means of ‘planning poker’, which – as Wikipedia puts it – is ‘ a consensus-based estimation technique for estimating, mostly used to estimate effort or relative size of tasks in software development ‘The Impending Death Of Microsoft Office – Charles Chen
The future is coming and it’s called the web… not an anti-Microsoft post though
Raymond (’The old new thing’) compiles his own link overview
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