LINKBLOG for August 22, 2008
Aug 22nd, 2008 by AZuidhof
ASP.NET Futures – Generating Dynamic Images with HttpHandlers gets Easier – Scott Hanselman
ResDump Code – D.P. Bullington
‘ (…) a tool which would dump all image and image list resources from an assembly, resx, or resources file ‘ Handy!Recouping Lost IQ Points from the Internets – Russell Ball
‘ (…) what can be done to counter-act this GIADD (Google Inspired Attention Deficit Disorder)? ‘ Russell started by reimplementing the way he reads his feeds, GTD styleCR/R! Wrap up – Jay Kimble
Jay got rid of ReSharper for a month, replaced it with Code Rush/Refactor! Pro, and finds mainly likes and a couple small gripes… he’s a convert!Announcing the Debut of MVP TV! – Angela Binkowski
Screencast: Creating your First WCF Service – Service Station, by Aaron Skonnard – Pluralsight Blogs
Pluralsight is starting a new screencast series, together with the Microsoft WCF/WF team. In the first webcast you get an introduction into setting up a WCF service. As expected you will see a lot of boilerplate stuff has already been done by the VS IDE (like setting up a WCF Test Clent and Service Host, all automatically, leaving you only with the ‘real stuff’: implementing your own business rules. By the way, there is already a second webcast Screencast: Configuring WCF Services with Endpoints available. Reccomended!How healthy is your code? – Joe Ocampo
‘ (…) your code is not in a healthy state and has the possibility of contracting a terminal illness that will lead to its death if you don’t take care of it now! ‘WPF for Business Applications, ready for the average user? – Bil Simser
good question. The answer according to Bil is, it depends on the type of business app you’re building, and -on a more personal level- on your experience with design(tools)*** And we’re off… – Karl Seguin
some very good quotes in this piece from Karl, concerning your career
‘ Of course, as has been shown numerous times before (don’t managers read these things?!), top programmers are unbelievably cheap with respect to productivity ‘
‘ Stay at one place for too long, and you get really good at doing one thing, but opportunities to learn become few and far apart ‘
‘ Source files rebasing enables a common CI scenario where the code is compiled in one location and analyzed in another one ‘ Little new feature, because this creates a problem for NDepend. Though, apart from that it’s a problem in general if you are debugging on PDB files not in sync with source filesLocalize text in JavaScript files in ASP.NET – Mads Kristensen
Mads shows a way to trigger translations in your .resx directly from JavaScript
‘ Because ASP.NET MVC is such a great framework for doing Test-Driven Development, in the first set of these videos, I pair with Charlie Poole “ Mr. Test-Driven Development himself ‘Hive Five: Five Best FTP Clients – Adam Pash
A decent 21th century FTP client was the last thing in my toolset that had to be replaced. Did this only recently, getting rid of some stone age 1998 implementation. You should too, in case being in the same situationNo act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted – Friday Reflections
Love the quote The true measure of a person is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good*** Glorifying Agile – Matt Hinze
‘ I guess I’m discovering what practitioners have known forever: Agile is anything but laissez faire. It requires serious mental discipline ‘ Matt realised something important about agile: someone else could have told him this, but going through the process on his own is much more worthwileImproving On Traditional Release Burndown Charts – Mike Cohn
A traditional burndown chart excels in simplicity, but that is at the same time it’s disadvantage. Therefore, Mike shows how you could make an extension to make it more usefulFinally – a solid metric for code quality – Christian Gruber
Hilariousis the music inside the piano? – Leon Bambrick
Leon refers to an insightful Alan Kay phrase, which I don’t want to hold back from you on this Friday edition
The important thing here is that the music is not in the piano. And knowledge and edification is not in the computer. The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideasMVC Storefront Part 19a: Windows Workflow Followup – Rob Conery
‘ (…) this is a 10 minute followup wherein I add some more services and buff out the Order submission process, and wrap it all with unit tests ‘The Software Project Manager’s Bridge to Agility – Clarke Ching
Hmm, I know a PM that can use this… (thanks Jason!
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