LINKBLOG for July 7, 2008
Jul 7th, 2008 by AZuidhof
Agile Project Initiation – Kelly Waters
Just had a discussion about big upfront requirements documents and how they relate to Agile. Now Kelly blogs about it, handing over the solution: use PowerPoint!In Depth With C# – Mo Khan
Book reviewDealing with time in tests – Oren Eini
The Agile MPG illusion – Clarke Ching
thanks Jason!.NET Developers’ Reference Card Roundup – Alvin Ashcraft
Alvin compiled this great ‘ list of reference cards / cheat sheets that I have compiled over the last year or so ‘How to be an instant Web me-2.0 developer – Verity Stob
Twitter is good for funny or interesting referrals to things I wouldn’t have found otherwise (came via multiple tweets). This is the first category. Do wander to page 2 for the uber funny web2.0 schemaBeing Smart Does Not a Good Developer Make – Justin Etheredge
The huge demand for developers, coupled with the relative youth of our industry, has created hordes of developers who simply don’t understand what they are doingHow does design get done on an Agile Project? – Jeremy D. Miller
‘ Who does the design? Every single coder on the project. (…) every single developer should be participating in the design and be able to explain the design ‘Some great blogs – sharing my opml – Michael Eaton
‘ He’s been away on vacation so the first thing he does is get the latest version. And lo! It won’t compile ‘ The fastest way to a broken build: taking works-on-my-machine as proof that it will work for the rest of usSubversion Turns 1.5 – James Kovacs
A new SVN drop was released recently with quite some nice featuresHerding Code – K. Scott Allen
New roundtable style podcastExploring ShadeTree Features, Part 1: Static Reflection with ReflectionHelper – Chad Myers
‘ Magic strings cause problems, let’s face it. So what can we do, instead? ‘ Expression Trees to the rescue (a complex topic on it’s own by the way)Interview Questions Considered Harmful – Sasha Goldshtein
‘ The worst interview question is the question taken out of context. What kind of banking system? What kind of design? What password hashes? What needs scaling up? ‘Introducing Depender – Testability Problem Finder – Roy Osherove
‘ Depender allows you to load an assembly and inspect the types within it according to very simple rules ‘ Interesting!Controllers and Doers – Pat Helland
Another boolean IT-people categorizationWhy You Can’t Just Compare Languages With Lines of Code – Follow Steph
‘ These comparisons just don’t work. It’s not even comparing apples to oranges, it’s comparing apples to liquid nitrogen ‘ Agree! Every language is suited for a specific task. You have a task, pick the right language, and stop complainingAdvice to public speakers: using microphones – Charles Miller
‘ At some point in your career, you’re probably going to have to stand up and speak in front of a room full of people ‘ Some audibility tips
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