LINKBLOG for August 15, 2008
Aug 15th, 2008 by AZuidhof
Call for Votes: Top 100 Software Engineering Blogs! – Jurgen Appelo
Jurgen kindly asks you to help him in a communal efforft to create a yet non-existing list of language agnostic engineering blogs.Intution is Not Enough for Knowing About the Project Portfolio – Johanna Rothman
Stay True to Your Process – Glen Alleman
‘ (…) to avoid spending money on consultants and assessment (although both he and we are consultants) answer the following three questions ‘The Tape Method – Bob Sutton
I know people where this would apply
‘ 4. If all else failed, she would stand-up and put a piece of tape on his mouth’How do you maintain your coding skills? – Simon Brown
Good question, especially for those in the architecture / management region
‘ There’s obviously no substitute for coding on a real project, but getting involved with the code reviews is one way to at least keep your mind fresh with technology and how it’s being used ‘Welcome to Engineering Windows 7
New Microsoft blog, for those interested in super early info on the upcoming WindowsHappyFish Feed Directory Using ASP.net MVC (Preview 4) – Will
Code samples using the latest ASP.NET MVC bitsOverriding the Equals Method for object used as a key in hashtable – Alkampfer
‘ Overriding the Equals method is not a stuff for the fainted-hearts; it could seems absolutely a simple thing to do, but there are a lot of subtleties that had to be keep in mind ‘How Chinese managers do business – Chris Han
These explain why Chinese can achieve higher level goals even with not so good technologies and managerial techniques ‘Inversion of Control is NOT about testability – Jeffrey Palermo
‘ In order to do anything useful in software, you must couple. You must couple to something ‘Validation Application Block and WCF – Thomas Bruusgaard
Visual Studio SP1 and The Metification of REST – K. Scott Allen
‘ for scenarios when you need to talk between two CLR appdomains (think ASP.NET and Silverlight), this approach gives you the advantages of thinking about nouns in a RESTful model without writing all the glue code to wire up an endpoints and parse XML ‘Parsing The Payload – Mo Khan
‘ (…) one thing we tried out this week was to create a payload parser. What this guy does is take a DTO parse out the values for each of the properties on the DTO from the current requests payload and fill it ‘ReSharper Combos — Refactoring To Components – Ilya Ryzhenkov
JetBrain’s Ilya shows off a little ReSharper Kung-FuMVC Storefront Part 19: Processing Orders With Windows Workflow – Rob Conery
‘ Can you dig it? Are you experienced? Have you ever been experienced with Windows Workflow? Are you willing to try? ‘More on Device Filtering With ASP.NET Server Control Properties – Ryan Farley
If you don’t know about the stuff residing inC:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\CONFIG\Browsersand the cool uses this leads to, then definitely read on … ‘ In that folder you’ll see several config files named things like “ie.browser”, “mozilla.browser”, “safari.browser”, “palm.browser”, etc. In each of these files there are several “browser” elements, each with an ID ‘BDD vs TDD – Sean Feldman
‘ I wanted to put a simple test in place to document the behaviour of a value converter WPF application I am working on is using ‘Command Line Argument Validation with C# 3.0 Voodoo – D. P. Bullington
‘ I have found a cool use of anonymous types in C# to perform this magic ‘For Developers: How to Choose Software Components – Soon Hui
‘ The general advice is that if you can buy it, you shouldn’t build it; the best code is no code at all ‘ Since this is not always feasible, Soon Hui has some tips how to make the buy-no buy decisionASP.NET MVC Is Not Part of ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 – Phil Haack
‘ And for my next feat, I’m going to try and read your mind, oooooh! Right now, you’re thinking something along the lines of,
Ok, so ASP.NET MVC didn’t ship as part of SP1. When is it going to ship?! ‘Test Doubles: When To (Not) Use Them – Davy Brion
It can be quite difficult to see which objects need to be mocked and which not, when your starting out in unit testing. Davy’s explanation is a helpful introduction!XML Data Manipulation with XLinq – DimeCasts.Net # 36
‘ In this episode we take a look at how to use the new XLinq (the Linq implementation for XML Documents) to query and manipuate XML Documents ‘I Quit My Day Job – David Starr
Exciting times when one does things like quitting on an 11-year jobUsing SyntaxHighlighter to Format Code in WordPress – Yaakov Ellis
Isn’t it nice how we always find a good reason to do things the hard way
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