LINKBLOG for July 12, 2008
Jul 12th, 2008 by AZuidhof
I’ll get to your application in a minute - First, we need to build the framework - Jeffrey Palermo
‘ A client isn’t interested in software that can be used to create software (frameworks). They have a problem, and a software system can help them solve the problem ‘Over Specification in Tests - Roy Osherove
‘ I’ve gotten the chance to visit and consult various companies and I see this all the time: Over specification in tests, especially when doing mocks and stubsTo all the editors I’ve loved before… - Sterling Camden
‘ To a programmer, the text editor you use is not a matter of religion. It’s much stronger than that. It’s more like love ‘How Can Microsoft Beat Google? - Leon Bambrick
‘ If Microsoft offered a significantly improved advertising service, then Google would be forced to buy advertising services off Microsoft ‘Shutdown Performance: Just Exit! - Sasha Goldshtein
‘ Wrapping up this short piece of advice: Don’t start freeing memory and obsessively validating resources when the user has requested a shutdown ‘Catch up With Your Favorite Podcasts Even When You’re Busy - Amit Agarwal
OK. Tried increasing play speed. Listening to Jeff and Joel at 1.3x now, 1.4 was too fast for me at least. But would I listen to the whole podcast, it would probably drive me crazy. This is badly affecting my QOL (Quality of Life) score…Zermatt: Claims-based identity for ASP.NET (and more!) - Steve Maine
‘ Zermatt is about making the power of the claims-based identity protocols we shipped in WCF V1 programmable and usable by normal humans ‘Building The Lounge - Release 1.1 - Refactoring, Models, SubSonic, and Testing - James Avery
‘ My goal here isn’t to try and tell people how to build applications, but rather just to explain how I have refactored/built this application ‘
Always like the opportunities where others share their process. Thanks!Too Much Quality - Jacob Proffitt
‘ If we really want to be masters of our own fate, we must learn to live in the messy world of business ‘ Conclusion being that flexibility is key hereStealth Client Request - Chris McCroskey
How to go about with strange client inquiriesInfoQ: Interruption Driven Development - Vikas Hazrati
‘ All the above scenarios could potentially become more important than the new feature development. So what is the way of handling such interruptions in a sprint? ‘Code from the internet - Julian M Bucknall
‘ Got some code off the internet to solve a particular problem and used it in your current program ‘ My personal stance is if you just cut and past without completely grokking the code it *always* causes more bad than goodRun test code often - Alkampfer
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