LINKBLOG for July 16, 2008
Jul 16th, 2008 by AZuidhof
Creating Nullable<T> When You Don’t Know T – Brad Wilson
Reintroducing Terrarium, now with 2.0 goodness! – Bil Simser
Cool .NET project, now opensourced for the first time: ‘ Build some creatures, learn some .NET and game programming, but above all: have fun! ‘Me + MEF = A new beginning – Glenn Block
So, how long does it take before eveyone works there?Getting Started with TDD – Steve Smith
‘ I think TDD is great and I still lack the discipline to enforce it 100% of the time in my own organization. I’m guessing here that I’m not the only one ‘
Agreed, it’s difficult, certainly if you’re one of the few seeing value in itEgoless Programming – Developing Without the Attitude – Mike Bernat
‘ More often than not I will regret not giving myself a moment or two to ponder a piece of criticism and just write it off the second it enters my head ‘
Ouch. Something useful to pick up here, for more people than only the authorCongratulations to our Millionth Terrorist! – Bruce Schneier‘ The U.S terrorist watch list has hit one million names. I sure hope we’re giving our millionth terrorist a prize of some sort ‘
Considering how easy it is to get on this list, it won’t take long before there’s more people *on* it than notJoining Microsoft – Hamilton Verissimo
Hamilton Verissimo, founder of the Castle project, joins Microsoft. Another open source proponent joining the Borg, which is good news I’d sayCharacterizing people as non-linear, first-order components in software development – Alistair Cockburn
Intent Programming – Mike Hall
‘ With intent programming, you’re using the features of the language itself to help declare your intent ‘ Good wrap-up on the importance of self-clarifying code, expresses both in code itself *and* the language features for additional explanationThe Non-Customer Is Always Right – Scott Sehlhorst
How to get the not-yet-customer aboard: ‘ Non-customers are your market. And understanding your market means understanding your non-customers. Find out what their problems are ‘Find semantic links in a web page – Mads Kristensen
This is absolutely not as dull as you might be inclined to think seeing the title: ‘ Imaging a visitor that enters his website URL into a textbox and when he clicks the submit button, you are able to retrieve all kinds of information from the guy ‘Project anti-pattern: Many projects in a Visual Studio Solution File – Chad Myers
Small confession: my current project contains….67 projects. This somehow happened, we let it slip. Now Visual Studio performance is crap, and we definitely need to split it up. Thanks Chad, good wakeup call!How to Search the File System Using LINQ Queries – Amit
code tipOptimizing LINQ Queries – K. Scott Allen
‘ The moral of the story is not to rewrite all your LINQ queries to save a 5 milliseconds here and there ‘ Specific research here with a general applicability: a total savings of 5 ms will never make a difference, except in the most critical…Defending my thoughts on Active Directory – Mitch Denny
AD has a company centered approach by nature, but ‘ My argument is that over the past decade that center has started to move away from “the company” and towards “the individual” ‘
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