LINKBLOG for July 15, 2008
Jul 15th, 2008 by AZuidhof
Design Patterns – Generic Singleton Pattern – David Cumps
WinForms and WPF. Great alone, yet better together – Greg Duncan
‘ this is the tutorial I’ve been looking for since VS 2008 came out, with it’s cool WinForm/WPF support ‘ Looks like the one to pick up of you need to start yet another WinForms app but don’t want to miss out the WPF coolnessThe beginning of an MVC framework for SL – Ruurd Boeke
‘ Thinking about this a bit though, does make me wonder if the added Xaml is worth the ability to go straight to the viewmodel ‘Featured Desktop: Widgets and Launchers Galore – Gina Trapani
Must be coolest desktop evah, even a productive one maybe. But it reminds me a bit too much of the Linux desktops from the late ninities, would make me restless probablyAgile Software Development: Agile 2008 Conference – Toronto – Kelly Waters
1600 participants, 400 sessions, a biggie!Don’t Be Stupid (like me) – Steve Hawley
‘ I was trying to debug some unmanaged code through a managed project and discovered that something had happened to my system such that it was impossible to start up a project with unmanaged debugging turned on ‘ Some good adviceUsing an ORM? Think Objects! – K. Scott Allen
‘ If you are a .NET developer who is starting to use an ORM – any ORM, you owe it to yourself and your project to reset your defaults ‘Make Routing Ignore Requests For A File Extension – Phil Haack
C# 4.0 – ‘Will’
Microsoft video with, among others, Anders Hejlsberg himself, on the next C#The Blame Game: How Necessary Is Traceability? – Max Pool
‘ Use traceability to your advantage so you can better react to the “now” and forget using traceability for what has happened – no reason to go on a witch hunt…you have bugs to fix ‘ReSharper Tip of the Day: Go to Type – Ontological Reciprocity
This is a *must-know* for all you Re# afficionadosA Programming Job Interview Challenge #12 – Managed and Unmanaged – Shahar Y
Scalability: I Don’t Think That Word Means What You Think It Does – Dare Obasanjo
‘ Almost every technology that has been loudly proclaimed as unscalable by some pundit on the Web is being used by a massively popular service in some contex ‘Announcing the .NET Extension Library – Karl Seguin
‘ I decided to attempt to put out a standard extension library for .NET developers ‘
A standard library in general use would be a great idea, as it makes code that uses these libraries, much more feasibleBook Review – Agile Estimating and Planning – Ben Scheirman
glowing review for this bookObsolete in Isolation – Oren Eini
‘ Over time, what will happen is that we move all the parts of the application that are unstable and buggy to the new approach, which will allow us to test it properly ‘How to Localize Windows Forms and Change the Language at Runtime – Suprotim Agarwal
code tipThe Worst Thing to Ask During An Interview – Jason McDonald
‘ “What does your company do?” ‘
Cannot imaging that an interviewee would ever ask such a question, only if she wants to be out of the door ASAPArchitecture-Oriented or Feature-Oriented – how do you organise your development teams? – John Smart
Trust & Transparency – Mo Khan
‘ we’re completely open with each other, which has allowed us to really gel as a team ‘
That’s the real Agile spirit!Hitchhiker’s Guide to Software Architecture and Everything Else – Michael Stal
‘ Don’t be caught by the trap that architecture is only about problem domain and not about solution domain ‘My Guide To Effective Test Driven Development – Davy Brion
Davy describes the four levels of developers when it comes to TDD, and of course, how to reach TDD heaven, stage 4!*** ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 Release (Part 1) – Scott Guthrie
Another day, another ASP.NET MVC preview (pre-announcement)Book Review: Code Leader (Wrox) by Patrick Cauldwell – Lee Brandt
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