LINKBLOG for August 17, 2008
Aug 17th, 2008 by AZuidhof
Debugging in .NET – Resources – Rhonda Tipton
‘ There is always a need for pointers on good debugging techniques, so I thought I would post some debugging resources here ‘Interesting Finds: August 16, 2008 – [Rough Cut] – Jason Haley
Jason tries something new on his blog: personal commentary to the posts. I really like adding a little something to my links, since giving your own opinion, or posting a typical quote from the article gives your readers a bit extra, also probably persuading them more to click through. The most difficult thing is… it requires the blogger to *really* at least skim through the article, and not just link to it, but I’ve gotten an expert at that
Good luck Jason!.NET Memory Management – Davy Brion
‘ (…) there is a lot more to automatic memory management in .NET than simply relying on the GC to take care of all of the details for you ‘If I Was Building a Twitter Client, I Would … – John Papa
‘ So if you were looking for a Twitter client, what would it include? I definitely want a searching feature, basic tweet replies, direct messages, etc. Anything else? ‘Design Patterns – Proxy Pattern – David Cumps
David publishes his last article on Design Patterns… since he finished the Head First book. Hmm, me’s still halfway in that, so a good reminder to go back to the PizzaFactory in ObjectvilleDare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life – Explaining REST to Damien Katz
Code Security In .NET – Abhishek sur
‘ All about vulnerabilities with Code Reverse Engineering and best step to fix them with Included DotFuscator ‘Unit Testing Validations Controls on ASP.NET Page Using WatiN – Mohammad Azam
‘ I have been playing around with WatiN and quite frankly I think it is an awesome product. Today, I need to test if the validation controls are working properly or not so I used WatiN to write simple unit tests ‘How to Get Around Corporate Internet Blocking Policies – Mike Gunderloy
OF course a word of advice: don’t do anything on your employer’s network (s)he *might* deem illegal; you don’t want to spoil your relationshipSorting Algorithms: The Bubble Sort – OJ Reeves
First of a multipart series on sorting8 Ways to Take It to the Next Level - Dustin Wax
It being the personal brand: “You”!Case study: Distributed Scrum Project for Dutch Railways – Marco Mulder and Martin van Vliet
‘ After 3 years, the project was cancelled because the vendor failed to deliver a working system ‘ Ouch. The story takes off from here, when these guys got the project, and gets you on an Agile success story, using the Scrum method. The story particularly attracted me because I’m a -though not too heavy these days- user of the Dutch railwaysFive risks of solo programming – Artem
‘ Pair programming is one of the most debated practices of the Extreme Programming ‘ True. Can confirm that from personal expericence. Guess it’s just one of the most visible agile techniques, making it easier for people to attackFunctional code != Good code – David R. MacIver
‘ Hopefully not too many people would come out and actually claim this, but it seems to be an unstated common belief. It’s also utter bollocks ‘Preparing for Agile Maintenance – Knowledge Management – ShriKant Vashishtha
‘ With this documentation and knowledge base in hand, it becomes relatively a lot easier for the new team to go into maintenance phase without much hiccups ‘
‘ Ask the right questions – you will get the right answers ‘Evolving Architectures – Architecture Retrospective – Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz
‘ A retrospective is a meeting where the team takes a look and inspect the past, in order to adapt and improve the future ‘Resistance to the Right IT Project Solution – Bruce F. Webster
‘ From my own observations, it usually boils down to three interrelated factors: internal politics; budget; and fear/pride ‘An Engineering Mantra: Availability Enlightenment – ‘Adding Simplicity’
‘ The path to enlightenment is often only visible after failure, if at all ‘Microsoft’s Biggest Mistake with ASP.NET – Dave M Bush
interesting followup on Rick Strahl’s latest ASP.NET post
thanks Alvin!The Bluffer’s Guide To Yegge: Business Requirements R Bullsh*t – Leon Bambrick
‘ If you are at a cool party with cool people you must pretend to have read all of Yegge’s stuff ‘ but, alas…. ‘ All Steve Yegge articles are awesome, but no one has time to read them ‘
So Leon gives the quick guide to Yegge’s latest, where he has some harsh words to say on requirements gathering
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