LINKBLOG for August 19, 2008
Aug 19th, 2008 by AZuidhof
Twitter / JohnCleese
John Cleese is on Twitter under the tagline “Yes, I am still indeed alive, contrary to rumour, and I am making video podcasts”. Seems to be the real John (via twitter / IDisposable)Scrum – A Not-so-bad Development Methodology – Tim Barcz
‘ If you aren’t using a methodology or your current process isn’t working, you should give Scrum a try ‘Convention, configuration and WCF – Jimmy Bogard
Why I Am No Longer Supporting IE6 – Ryan Farley
” OK. Enough for me. I’m sold. No more support for IE6 from me. IE6 users, sorry. You can still use my sites, they just won’t look as nice. As a consolation prize, you will at least get to see my cool “Eek IE6!” message ‘
Extra Features: One of the Lean 7 Wastes of Software – Peter Ritchie
‘ From an Agile standpoint, extra features mean you’re giving the user something they didn’t want. This means you’re not listening to your customer and don’t have a relationship built on communication ‘Serializable XmlDocument – Keith Brown
‘ It’s surprising that XmlDocument isn’t marked [Serializable], because it’s very natural to serialize one into a stream. I wanted to put an object into ASP.NET ViewState the other day, and quickly ran into this roadblock (…) ‘Typemock Isolator 5.0 Released; Open Source Licensing Available – Travis Illig
‘ Typemock Isolator 5.0 has been released and there are a lot of cool things that come with it ‘Null Coalescing Operator – Brian di Croce
It’s never too late to get acquainted to the null coalescing operator…Poor man’s syntax highlighting – Oren Eini
Oren gives an example he himself says is bad code. Comments might be more interesting than post itselfPractical Concurrency Patterns: Immutability (Freezables) – Sasha Goldshtein
What is the easiest way to protect data from multi-threaded access and to incur the minimal performance cost while doing so? Making it read-only!XML declarations in Linq to XML – Alex Thissen
‘ The new XML API that comes with Linq to XML has some peculiar ways of handling the XML declaration (aka the XML prolog) ‘WebResource.axd and Time Zone Issue – Keyvan Nayyeri
‘ There are some issues that you don’t know about them until they stop you somewhere! ‘Acceptance TDD Explained – Lasse Koskela
Nice, but rather long article; at the same time introducing story telling and user stories, and how TDD fits in the development cycleMetrics: An Example Approach – Bill Miller
A plea to stop moaning “software is different” and be more accountable in our software developmentHow Do You Apply Polyglotism? – Daniel Spiewak
According to the article I’ve been living under a rock lately, so if you too are not acquainted with this term, maybe read up here
‘ (…) the idea behind polyglot programming is that each section of a given project should use whatever language happens to be most applicable to the problem in question ‘The Perils of FUI: Fake User Interface – Jeff Atwood
Jeff get bitten by his own FUI’s regularly, so it comes as no surprise to him that people fall prey to browser hacks all the time. He wonders:
‘ Short of user education, which is a neverending, continuous uphill battle — how would you combat a perfectly spoofed FUI presented to a naive user? ‘Live Mesh: More Slots Available, No Wait List – Mike Walker
In case Live Mesh and slots together doesn’t ring a bell, you can safely skip thisDigital Identity, Privacy, and the Internet’s Missing Identity Layer – Kim Cameron
Kim over on the IdentityBlog has reworked his ‘laws of identity’ into the short (management?) summary
‘ I like to draw from a variety of sources for software engineering principles, patterns, and practices ‘ Pointers to some Agile methods, showing you at a glance what they’re aboutWhy the Database as a Service is a Bad Idea – Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz
‘ 7. It is just client-server in sheep’s clothing ‘
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