LINKBLOG for July 4, 2008
Jul 4th, 2008 by AZuidhof
Kill Your Users Table – Rob Conery
Cool example of thinking out of the box, to remove ideas we always took for granted ‘ This is a challenge to give privacy a bigger consideration in your application – in the same way you might be challenging yourself right now to use TDD or Agile ‘Book Piracy – James Shore
If James Shore, author of The Art of Agile Development finds his own book on a torrent tracker, that can only mean one thing: Agile is finally taking off in the real world, under the assumption that pirates only show interest in what’s being asked for.
Disclaimer: my paid version of this great book is sitting happily on my desk right now…Test code is “First class code” – Alkampfer
‘ I believe that one of the worst mistake a developer can do when writing Unit Tests is to consider unit test “second class code” ‘Parallel Extensions – Using Futures to Calculate Pi in Hexadecimal – Bart de Smet
Well, that was fun! An adventure in WCF, SSL, and Host Headers – Robert May
5 Leadership Lessons: How the Best Get Better and Stay That Way – Leadin Blog
via PrakashCode coverage: a tool against unused and untested code – P Bielicki
‘ The best way to write code is to start with unit test and to write it incrementally – implement ONLY what you need today ‘Coding Challenges – David Linsin
Little nugget of simplification when loading an XDocument – Derik Whittaker
‘ Using the XDocument library, I can simply use the static Load to accomplish this in a single line ‘ Another cool tip how to achieve the same with less code, which is always a good thingThe Onion Model – Michael Stal
‘ At the end you need to address tactical issues such as flexibility or maintainability. These will become the outer layers of the onion ‘VSTweak – James Avery
‘ VSTweak is a small windows application that can be used to modify a number of hard to find settings ‘Release Early, Release Often – Soon Hui
‘ (…) a necessary condition for a software success ‘Extending ASP.NET MVC OutputCache ActionFilterAttribute – Adding substitution – Maarten Balliauw
Scrum Sprint 1 – Week 3 – Reevaluating “Done” – Greg Duncan
New Book: Agile Adoption Patterns – Jim Holmes
The Collective Agile Discussion – David Starr
‘ “No requirements and we work on the highest priority item” That’s firefighting. Agile requires the discipline of focus, if only for a single iteration ‘ Agile is not easy, and doesn’t allow you to get sloppy in your practicesDebugging 101 – Measure, do your homework and think out of the box – Klaus Graefensteiner
Lots of tips/tools to improve your debugging
‘ Use tools to quickly get the low hanging fruit. This might be enough in most of the cases to identify the bug ‘26 Not To Be Missed .NET Articles – June 2008 – Neethling Schalk
Compilation of last the month in the .NET worldWriting your own RTF Converter – Jani Giannoudis
5 Useful, Free Graphics Apps – Samuel Dean
Nice to see Paint.NET on a not specific Micsrosoft/.NET related site
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