LINKBLOG for August 20, 2008
Aug 20th, 2008 by AZuidhof
The Easy Way to Writing Good User Stories – Max Pool
‘ Many development shops have opted to writing user stories over traditional feature/requirement documents; however, almost all of them struggle when writing their first batch of user stories ‘Pair programming. What researches say on the costs and benefits of the practice – Artem
While paring is no silver bullet, the article gives you several reasons why in certain circumstances pair programming is better than working in singular modeOnly In A Database Can You Get 1000% + Improvement By Changing A Few Lines Of Code – SQLDenis
How to Redirect user to “Down for Maintenance” page in ASP.NET ? – App_Offline.htm – Sandeep Aparajit
In case you didn’t know app_offline.htm yet, it’s a cool hidden gemProbably The Most Powerful LINQ Operator: SelectMany – Bart de Smet
Once again, Bart takes LINQ and peeks under it’s hood to check the gory inner working (well, not gory, actually) ‘ What’s the magic SelectMany all about? Where could we better start our investigation than by looking at one of its signatures? ‘Pitfall: Static Field Inline Initialization Order of Execution – Omer van Kloeten
Omer points us to a tricky scenario that might play up with static fields ‘ (…) Apparently, when initializing static fields inline, the order of execution is from top to bottom, regardless of dependencies ‘C# Inline Methods and Optimization – Ade Miller
And even more optimization trouble here in this issue from AdeHow I started to really understand generics – Kirill Osenkov
Kiril already knew his Generics, but found some new thing he hadn’t realised before. A good C# read hereException handling with Action Filters in Asp.Net MVC – DimeCasts #37
‘ In this episode we take a look at how to handle exceptions with Action Filters in the ASP.Net MVC framework ‘Bare bones ASP.NET MVC Project Template – Chris Carter
‘ One minor annoying thing about starting a new ASP.NET MVC project, is the template that’s installed has a bunch of stuff that belongs in a Starter Kit type project, not a new project template ‘Testing Private Methods – James Shore
‘ (…) tests are supposed to document the public behavior, not the internal implementation. So testing a private method can be a sign of a problem ‘Depth Of Automation – Abhijit Nadgouda
Good question: how far should you go in automating
‘ (…) a company might keep a database of its employees, and might want to verify the address of a new employee. Here too, the software can perform automation upto different levels ‘Email Apps: Email Innovations You Want in Your Inbox – Gina Trapani
‘ Undo Sent Message ‘ No, this one isn’t automatically incorporated in any mail client -yet-, would be cool though, saving you an embarrassing situation every now and then. If you use Outlook you can defer sending emails, however
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