LINKBLOG for August 23, 2008
Aug 23rd, 2008 by AZuidhof
The Website Is Down: Sales Guy vs. Web Dude – Max Pool
Probably linked to it before, but if you haven’t seen this video yet you absolutely should. We all had a good laugh about it here. If it could be nominated for ‘geek video of 2008′, it should beQuick Quiz on Tasks – Daniel Moth
Explaining My Book … To Myself : John Papa
John writes a book (on data access in Silverlight 2) and has to remind himself to keep on trackSoftware Patents are evil, here’s why – Frans Bouma
‘ It’s good the EU forbid software patents for now and it’s likely they’ll never be valid here. Let’s hope the US patent office is following suit ‘Don’t tell me you did that with JavaScript – Sergio Pereira
‘ As soon as I started showing how clear and well-structured good JavaScript code could be I could see the light bulbs go off and some of those folks ‘
‘ By implementing the PRG [Post/Redirect/Get - ed.] pattern, I get nice clean urls that are bookmarkable. My users also get a nice site that is traversable and aren’t presented with confusing security dialog messages ‘Console 2.00.140 – Tomas Restrepo
‘ just noticed that Console 2.00b140 was recently released on its SourceForge site ‘CodeThinked | Exploring System.Web.Routing – Justin Etheredge
‘ System.Web.Routing has two core concepts. One is the concept of a route and the second is the concept of a route handler ‘.NET vs PHP in the Enterprise comics strip – Simone Chiaretta
Have to be careful with .NET vs PHP humor, where PHP is ridiculed (just a bit), but it was just too funnyThread synchronization: Wait and Pulse demystified – Nick Butler
Appropriate use of Local Variable Type Inference – Bart de Smet
‘ In the end, as usual, there’s no silver bullet. However, one should optimize code for reading it (write-once, read-many philosophy) ‘ Bart really is on a spree with good posts lately!Learning From Every Job -Mike Gunderloy
Excellent advice from Mike today: never take a job where you know you won’t learn anything. Expecially for freelancers, who tend to have multiple jobs this is important, as you might be tempted to do a gig ‘just for the money’Developing With Just-In-Time Information – Andrew Wulf
‘ The only way to really survive the modern programming world is to learn to be flexible and refuse to over-specialize unless you work in a stable job where nothing ever changes (and these do still exist) ‘ This post by the Codist hits the nail. These last people really don’t have a problem… until their current gig goes extinct. Then you just hope they are preparedExperts, Generalists, and the Tyranny of OR – Jarkko Laine
‘ How To Embrace The Genius of the AND ‘ Yes, it is about *that* OR, AND’s counterpartDownload Free PDF Book from Amazon – Blue Planet Run – Amit Agarwal
A free (but 38MB!) PDF download containin 250 awesome photographs by top photo journalists, covering the everlasting fight against water from people all over the world
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