LINKBLOG for August 26, 2008
Aug 26th, 2008 by AZuidhof
Freelancers and Credit Cards – Making a Tough Relationship Work – Jonathan Leane
Some tips,maybe open doors when freelancing, but still
‘ 4. Consider registering yourself as a business ‘ASP.NET MVC Validations using MVCContrib – Shiju Varghese
‘ MVCContrib is a cool contrib project to ASP.net MVC that extends the functionalities of an ASP.net MVC application and it provides rich set of validation helpers and it also provides different validation groups ‘*** Why The ALT.NET Community Needs To Change Their Ways – Davy Brion
Nice opinion piece by Dave (on a pet peeve of mine lately, so I might be biased). Agreed that we see too many elitist opinions floating around in the Alt.NET world. We need to rethink what the central goal is here: voice our opinions as much as possible to – in our view – the unknowing masses, or reaching out and helping other developers who are struggling to find a better way to do things
‘ If we really want to spread these practices and principles that we value so much, we can’t afford to rub so many people the wrong way ‘Scraping, or Programatically Accessing, a Secure Webpage – Ryan Farley
Grab the page’s cookie and scrape secure sites that don’t offer a public API ‘ Not bad. We can now scrape any data we’d like from the secure page contents ‘MVC Storefront Part 20: Logging – Rob Conery
Latest MVC Storefront webcastLinq Compiled Queries Q&A – Rico Mariani
A bit of insight in compiled LINQ queries
Omer changed some code after realising the execution of theyieldmethod is defered. Must say defered execution is one of those things that you don’t see from the code, meaning you *must* know it for understanding the flow. The first time I realized LINQ queries are deferred in execution was also one of those eye opening momentsGreat Fiddler Tip For Localhost Testing – John Papa
If you use Fiddler and it doesn’t work, John has a small tip that might be of helpBDDDo -Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo
Jean Paul is continuing to put out a lot of stuff that I don’t understand, so it must be good
Code Reviews using TFS Tools – Carel Lotz
Carel describes how his team does code reviews by using a special Scrum style TFS process templateHigh Quality Image Resizing with .NET – Mike Borozdin
‘ I want to proceed with telling how to deal with uploaded images with ASP.NET ‘Lean Software Development – Jay Fields
Jay has a ‘raving review’ of his favorite methodology ‘ (…) I had the opportunity to try out Fred George’s Lean process. To date, it’s absolutely my favorite way to deliver software ‘Marriage Proposal in Google Street View – Ionut Alex Chitu
Google’s sense of humor (not too bad a sense, mind you)Productivity – ‘Jeremy’
Explanation of productivity and velocity, and why we mix them up so easilyGood Example of How Tricky Security Is – Even for Banks – Chris Woodill
Chris has a good example here, that might have you wonder at first: ‘well, so?’. But then, quickly, you will see the uselessness of this “security question”Thoughts on Evolutionary Design – Sam Gentile
Sam, the man carrying the biggest tag cloud on a blog I’ve ever seen, argues the importance to keep design in sync with our requirements and developmentInclude File Operations in Your Transactions Today with IEnlistmentNotification – Chinh Do
Chinh Do wonders why something like transactional file management takes off so slowly, and implements his own (source available)The Importance of Scheduling Downtime – Joel Falconer
‘ (…) do you want to become more productive so that you can maintain a better work-life balance, or so that you can fill up your newly freed hours with more work? ‘ Good question we have to ask ourselves honestly every now and thenURL rewriting in ASP.NET web applications – Janko Jovanovic
‘ There are several ways to accomplish URL Rewriting. I’ll explain how to do this by using HttpModule and how to overcome the postback bug that is the outcome of URL rewriting ‘Refactoring towards deeper insight – Sean Chambers
‘ While not the most important or well documented aspect of DDD, Refactoring plays an integral role when performing DDD. It feels slow and sluggish at first (…) ‘
Welcome dear visitor! I'm your host, Arjan Zuidhof. Have a look around on this opinionated linkblog, take a peek at the links, and if you like what you see, don't forget to subscribe to the feed (at the top, on your right) and receive fresh links daily in your reader.
Dutch? You might be interested in my -new!!!- link blog 
[...] LINKBLOG for August 26, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof) [...]