LINKBLOG for August 14, 2008
Aug 14th, 2008 by AZuidhof
Program Manager role at Microsoft – Daniel Moth
‘ Some view the “drawback” of this role being that: you have tons of responsibilities which you can only deliver via a team on which you have no authority. Read that sentence again ‘10 Success Patterns for PMs – J.D. Meier
Another list, 10 items, so again it is statistically proven that you will click this (and I was a statistician in a former life you know)Where did Password Minder go? SOLVED! – Peter Provost
Strongly-Typed ViewData Without A Codebehind – Tim Barcz
USe CLR notation to have your ViewData strongly types without the code-behind
‘ Contextual Binding is the ability to switch out different concrete implementations of a service (i.e. class) at runtime depending on the context in which they are used ‘Three Free Tools Any Web Developer Must Use – Amit Raz
some nice tools, e.g. WCAT, a website stresstest toolRecursing on Recursion – Continuation Passing – Matthew Podwysocki
LINQ and Dynamic Predicate Construction at Run-time – Dave Dolan
‘ Illustrating a multi-predicate injection pattern now possible with the new features of C# 3.0 ‘The Blogging Hiatus: Next Stop Shark Jump? – Russell Ball
Russell raises some good points here. Taking a hiatus from blogging is the blogger’s own choice, and (s)he has no obligations at all to readership. We blog for the love of it, and not for money – most of us anyway.Expression Tree Normalization – How Many Ways To Say “String == String”? – Bart de Smet
‘ now to what extent you want to preserve semantics (…) before you can even start to think about techniques like normalization ‘Our New Book – Beginning ASP.NET MVC – Keyvan Nayyeri
12 Unit Testing Tips for Software Engineers – Alex Iskold
of of them: unittesting for measuring desired performance of a piece of code. What a wonderful idea, maybe old news for you, but not for meDeveloper Jokes II – Tim Stall
if you got a hang for dev jokes, they never get boring – mmm, where’s the logic in there?How Variable Naming Can Significantly Impact Your Teams Productivity – Follow Steph
Warning: this one carries a picture with the words ‘on error resume next’. You might not want to ruin your eyes
Rebuttal to the ever present Microsoft bashers, containing lots of reasons why testing complex products is complex itself ‘ Dealing with yesterday’s bugs keeps part of our attention away from today’s bugs ‘Do certifications help IT consultants attract business? – Chip Camden
‘ When you’re meeting with a prospect, I recommend that you talk about the things you’ve created rather than all the things you should know by default ‘ Great advice in this post that you should take to heart. Personally I rather know about TDD, Agile, CI, team dynamics, and cool stuff like that then knowing every method in every Framework class by heart.Featured Windows Download: Look@Lan Monitors Your Network – LifeHacker.com
I’m a sucker for slick system toolsBetter URLs With Subtext and Windows Live Writer – Phil Haack
‘ Now when you publish this post, the URL will end with the slug that you specified ‘ASP.NET MVC Tip #31 – Passing Data to Master Pages and User Controls – Stephen Walther
‘ Imagine that you are building a movie database application with the ASP.NET MVC framework. You decide that you want to display the list of movie category links on each and every page in your application ‘
‘ I recently got brought on board to a new client where, true to form, a project was in a state of failure – everybody sort of knew it, but nobody would say it out loud ‘Keyczar: Safe and Simple Cryptography – Steve Weis
new Google security opensource project
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