LINKBLOG for August 28, 2008
Aug 28th, 2008 by AZuidhof
Async Operations in Wcf: Handling Exceptions – Dan Rigsby
Software Estimation is hard (right)? – Andrew Stopford
The Importance of Community Driven Events – DevLink – OH WOW !!! – Joe Stagner
Screencast: Hosting WCF services in ASP.NET/IIS – Aaron Skonnard
Another screencast in an interesting continuing series on WCFLINQ to XSD – Martin Hinshelwood
‘ Disappointed that is only works in C#, but having to use C# for a single project out of a solution it is a small price to pay to get the functionality ‘ Won’t take long and we even have LINQ-to-fridge…An entry into lean – Raymond Lewallen
‘ Today I just want to give a primer into lean so those of you who haven’t done much reading into it have a foundation from which we will build ‘How To Increase Your Blog Page Views – Amit Raz
‘ This one is for all you bloggers or all you who intend to open a blog ‘ Or if you don’t have plans, let it be a stimulus to start one…you won’t regret it
‘ The first realization if there is no image – there is only a shape, or more specifically a Path ‘ Cool: “there is no image”. What does this remind me of?Self-signed SSL certs on IIS 6 – Matt Hinze
‘ Q: How do I install a self-signed SSL certificate on an IIS 6 website?
A: Use the SelfSSL utility that comes with the IIS Resource kit! ‘
Until you install two certs on one server… Matt helps outGreat Design Pattern Resources – Rhonda Tipton
Rhonda has some nice pointers to pattern resources, both blogs and webcastsWorkaround for missing “Edit WCF Configuration” menu option in Visual Studio – Alex Thissen
Tip in case you lost this context menuLegacy Driven Development – Oren Eini
A scenario where TDD does not cut it: continually having to change your tests can reach a certain level that comparing with oldfashioned trial and error might be more appropriateData Structure and Algorithms eBook – Simone Chiaretta
New book, download the PDF if you want to investigate a fresh contemporary look at algorithmsWhy XAML is Powerful – Patrick Braga
ASP.NET Myths Busted – Mike Borozdin
Some of the standard nonsense arguments againt ASP.NET. Good if you need some bullets to shoot at your opponents
Memory Profiler Eating Up My Memory – Yaakov Ellis
Not what you expect from a profiler, eating up 1.2 GB’s of your precious RAM
is, as, typeof. That is whyAlt.Net Canada – Wish I was there! – Igor Moochnick
Great effort. As not everyone has the opportunity to visit events like these, we should strive to make more audio/video available for others to learn
Roy investigates Rake like scripting and visual tools, of which he personally favors the last. It’s a comprehensive post with lot’s if samples and visual comparisonsExplore Stack Trace in Resharper – Josh Twist
Josh experiences some serious productivity improvements after a couple weeks of ReSharperMocking and Dependency Injection in ASP.NET MVC – Emad Ibrahim
‘ I am like a kid in a candy store with all these things: mocking, dependency injection, inversion of control, unit testing… I am loving it ‘A Look At The ASP.Net MVC Framework – George P. Alexander
George has a handy overview of all good stuff in the upcoming ASP.NET MVC frameworkHenrik Kniberg and his list of top 10 ways of screwing Scrum – Pawel Pabich
Changing Table Names in an OR/M – Jacob Proffitt
Can be done several ways, but ‘ (…) the LINQ to SQL solution is much cleaner because I’m simply not going to use all the other goo that the Enterprise Framework includes ‘Not another mapping markup language! – Andrew Matthews
‘ (…) what the world needs from an organization like the W3C is the kind of abstract thinking that gave rise to RDF, not another mapping markup language! ‘.NET 3.5 SP1 is out…what’s inside – Hanselminutes #145
‘ Carl and Scott chat about what’s new in .NET 3.5 SP1. There’s a lot of new additions and improvements…should you care? ‘Is that the story of my life? – David Brabant
I sure hope not… geek video aheadLeadership: Do You Believe That Your People Can Learn? – Bob Sutton
Interesting piece of research looking at the difference between people who think their IQ is fixed vs. those that think it’s changeable
‘ (…) I applaud the researchers for not only uncovering a fascinating pattern, but also going through the work to change the people they were studying, apparently for the better ‘The No. 1 Lifehack You can Implement Today to Make the World a Better Place – Mark Hayward
‘ In a word: Kindness ‘ take that!
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