LINKBLOG for July 8, 2008
Jul 8th, 2008 by AZuidhof
Developing .NET Software on a Mac – Deep Fried Bytes Technology Podcast #5
‘ Did you know you can develop .NET software on a Mac? It is a new trend that has been gaining momentum over the past six month ‘ This podcast goes into detailBlogEngine.NET 1.4 released – Joe Stagner
Plunging into .NET Development – Pieter Gheysens
‘ (…) in a team environment the option to edit the custom dictionary in the FxCop Application folder is not the good solution! So, what do you need to do in Visual Studio 2008 Team System ‘Tips for Unit Testing – Ben
Quite a list, good tipsNon IT Books for IT People – Michael Minella
‘ As someone in the IT field, I read a large number of technical books. We all do. However, I have been trying lately to read non technical books as well to broaden my exposure to other topics ‘ Which never hurts, of courseHow Web Savvy Parents Can Help Kids Learn The English Alphabet
Even the family found this reasonably funny, which doens’t happen oftenVotes of No Confidence, Voting With Your Feet, or Putting Too Much Faith in False Prophets – Jim Holmes
Sometimes things just have to be said. Agree completely here, but I am glad Jim put the Alt.NET disclaimer there: there is a lot of positive things coming from those people (besides the Microsoft bashing)Customer Polarizing – Why Microsoft Will Always Be A Mediocre Giant
‘ When you build software for everybody, you build software for nobody ‘ Glad that Max mentions ASP.NET MVC as a good example of the oppositeNegative Attitudes are a Cancer to Successful Teams – steven Harman
‘ Negativity devastates teams ‘ Amen to that! If negativity is part of *your* team dynamics, starting doing anything within your possibilities to ameliorate it. Anything.Cache Access Pattern Revised – Steve Smith
A List of Companies Working Hard to Screw Up My Web Experience – Dare Obasanjo
on the crazy things companies do: Web 2.0 for the sake of Web 2.0
‘ (…) that requiring registration to view content is an amazingly stupid trend that is beyond dumb ‘Recursing into Linear, Tail and Binary Recursion – Matthew Podwysocki
‘ Today, let’s dive a little deeper into the different kinds of recursion, including linear, tail recursion and finally binary recursion ‘Geek Noise – Dark Visual Studio – I’m hooked – Peter Provost
Reccomended. So good on the eyesA Programming Job Interview Challenge #11 – Summing Numbers – Shahar Y
Doing a 180 in a matter of months – Darrell Mozingo
‘ So far our users are thrilled with the software, we’re very happy with the design and testing being built around it, and I’m absolutely loving my job again ‘
Stories like this put a smile on my face: radical change within your company/department *is* possible, as long as there is buy-in from everyoneExtension Methods + Attributes = A Whole New World! – Shay Friedman
‘ So what have we achieved? we’ve added authentication to a method without changing its original code! (I know it sounds a bit like AOP, but who cares? it’s cool!) ‘ASP.NET Hacks Wiki @ Less Than Dot
‘ This is a collection of ASP.NET hacks (i.e. tips and tricks) and includes some useful to know things about ASP.NET development ‘ In case you missed themWhy project managers get no respect – Scott Berkun
Scott points out why Project Management looks dull to an outsider, and what PM’s can do about itExploring ShadeTree Features, Part 2: Cache – Chad Myers
‘ Or, as I like to call it: “That stupid dictionary thing we’ve all written a thousand times but were too lazy to component-ize for reuse” ‘Authentication in web services using C# and Kerberos (POC) – Akram Aly
‘ This article is considered a proof of concept article (POC) to explain how Kerberos authentication can be implemented to authenticate requesters when they need to request a web service ‘
Post on the ‘ ‘hard-to-test’ areas, the things production code needs to do, that those presentations and introductory books just don’t seem to explain well ‘
A step further in explaining not just basic TDD by the reasons why people abandon itWho should own the non-functional tests? – Simon Brown
‘ Vendor ownership would ensure that the test scripts are as accurate and representative as possible ‘
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