LINKBLOG for August 27, 2008
Aug 27th, 2008 by AZuidhof
Agile Development: why it rocks, who it helps, and why it’s failing - Sara Chipps
‘ Not because Agile doesn’t work, but because when people aren’t happy they don’t care if your company succeeds or not ‘
Sara’s problem is not the methodology, but the implementation, if I interpreted correctlyReddit Now Fully Customizable: Bring Your Own Design and Domain - Frederic Lardinois
Seems a nice idea, letting users fully customise your site. Still I cannot imagine this will be a killer feature if you do not already have a big base of loyal followersThe true meaning of readonly for value types - Andre Loker
Let me not spoil Andre’s conclusion by quoting it here. I was - as Andre - unaware of this, so a bit amazed as to why the test was failing hereMy Agile Wall (Plus A Few Tricks) - Max Pool
Max has another video, explaining how his employer uses the wall for Agile purposes. Like the “social hacks” he explains around 10 mins into the webcastRevealed: The Internet’s Biggest Security Hole - Kim Zetter
Seems to evolve into a bigger issue than Dan Kaminsky’s DNS flawsNHibernate 2.0: Changes Overview - Patrick Smacchia
Once again, Patrick takes his favorite tool to investigate changes in a new release; and raises some points, as the big interdependency between the NHibernate namespacesApplication Profiling Using DotTrace - Mohammad Azam
Mohammad has a small demo of how to get results from a profiling toolUse ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib to write directly to Response.OutputStream in a asp.net application - Alkampfer
Investigation of some unexpected behavior of this useful 3rd party library, and a pretty solutionHow to respond with code 404 (Not Found) in ASP.NET - .NET Tip of The Day
code tipC# String Assignment Optimization - Ade Miller
One of those nitty-gritty detail thingies that you can spent a lot of time investigating. Instead you better spend your time thinking about your algorithms than about how the compiler would try and optimize your code, as Ade advisesASP.NET MVC Tip #38 – Simplify LINQ to SQL with Extension Methods - Stephen Walther
‘ (…) create new LINQ to SQL extension methods that enable you to dramatically reduce the amount of code that you are required to write for typical data access scenarios ‘ActionResult method extensions for unit testing - Torkel Ödegaard
Creativity as the Root of Software Development - Jurgen Appelo
‘ (…) with creativity being the root of software development, and people being very effective creative systems, it is clear that software development is all about people ‘Completely Scripting a SQL Server Database - Justin Etheredge
… was not too hard doing it by hand, Justin found outSo where were you? - Oren Eini
Oren got triggered reading a Microsoft-basher’s post, and respondsHow Hard Could It Be?: How I Learned to Love Middle Managers - Joel Spolsky
‘ (…) unbeknown to us, people were getting grumpy. The staff members would routinely gather in one of the senior programmers’ offices for gripe sessions ‘ Joel shares some experiences on how he learnt management the hard way
These days virii have taken the world, and now go for space…Personal information can be a toxic liability… - Kim Cameron
Kim has a wise remark here, reminding that everything is not always what it seems ‘ If you are wondering why Britain seems to experience more “data loss” than anyone else, I suspect you are asking the wrong question. If I were a betting man, I would wager that they just have better reporting -more people paying attention and blowing whistles ‘6 Reasons to Track Your Progress, and 3 To Forget About It - Thursday Bram
I’d say that there is a point above which tracking starts to work against productvity, that is, it starts hurting more than helping
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