LINKBLOG for September 16, 2008
Sep 16th, 2008 by AZuidhof
Bindable LINQ: Threading – Paul Stovell
Paul has a look at threading issues he had to overcome building his Bindible LINQ toolMore comments on generics – Kirill Osenkov
‘ Here are some more unsorted thoughts on generics to continue this post (which has some interesting comments too) ‘
‘ The TFS system will retry every two hours for 6 retries ‘ so gives no guaranteesWF and WCF resources – Matt Milner
Lots of good resources, mainly from Microsoft itselfHanselminutes Podcasts 128 and 129 – Ajax with Scott Cate and JavaScript with Bertrand Le Roy – Scott Hanselman
Two podcasts for the price of oneMulti-tasking Isn’t Always a Bad Idea – Joel Falconer
‘ Multi-tasking; it seems that people are going to have big debates about this topic until the end of time ‘SDEdit – Free Sequence Diagram Editor – Shahar Yair
If you lack MS Visio or one of the other bog boys, you could give this one a tryFault Resilience support in publish/subscribe paradigm using WCF and socket programming – Razan Paul
‘ UI and Functional Testing through different Tools using .NET Technology ‘ALT.NET, a year or so later from an observer and occasional participant – Chad Myers
‘ What have I seen come out of this ALT.NET thing? ‘A Look into the Ajax Frameworks – Mohammad Azam
‘ (…) a look at the three different Ajax frameworks which include Ajax.NET PRO, MS Ajax Framework and the JQuery Library ‘How to survive password hell – Albert Alberts
use a password manager! This example uses the new Dropbox as the cloud tool synchronizing your (encrypted!) password fileDMZing the Backlog – Dave Donaldson
‘ “If it’s important, it will resurface later” (…) Think about that for a second and realize how liberating it is ‘ Wonderful. And why not? Priorities tend to change constantly in the light of new development. Meaning a thorough reassessment *must* be done every now and thenDigital Identity, Privacy, and the Internet’s Missing Identity Layer – Kim Cameron
Sounds scary: ‘ f you have a huge site like Google, which brings together many hundreds (thousands?) of services, then with this approach, if even ONE of them “goes bad”, the penetrated service can use any tokens it gets to impersonate those users at any other Google relying party service ‘Software Metrics: A Software Example – Bill Miller
‘ Software metrics, when used properly, is a tool for measuring the project not individuals; it’s a tool for controlling project deliverables, assessing and communicating status, and making better decisions ‘ Bill touches on the itchy subject of metrics. Key is in this case the goal: to measure *team* productivity. Cause I am still convinced that every effort to focus on employee productivity will result in the opposite: devs gaming the system (there will always be a way). Other ways than metrics alone must be used to assess someone’s effectiveness in an organization or teamHow to diagnose creative failures – Scott Berkun
Some ideas on why and how promising ideas just don’t make it; or: the hidden secrets of innovation, as Scott probably would call it ‘ (…) in many organizations ideas die at the pitch. People fail to convince others to support their own ideas ‘Debugging and The Five Stages of Grief – Kevin Pang
This grief is exactly why I’m thinking for other ways to write code that will have me end up in the debugger less and less: I am not so radical as to say we should strive for debug-less programming, but we should try hard to write code that can be understood without the need for a debuggermy take on things: How To Do Continuous Integration and TDD? – David Tinsin
‘ The problem that I faced concerning TDD and CI actually sounds very trivial: when should you check in code? ‘ Interesting post laying out reallife problems David faces when cheching in his code. The comments make the post complete as they offer just as reallife solutions to his problem (note-to-self: check out what all this Git stuff is about)Build a Web Page Monitor with Google Docs and Track Changes Automatically – Amit Agarwal
‘ (…) not all web content is available via feeds. For instance, Amazon, eBay and Google Product Search (Froggle) are good places to find discount deals on books and electronic gadgets but unfortunately, none of these shopping sites publish feeds ‘ Luckiliy there are handcrafted ways to overcome this, if you like soKnow The Cons – Abhijit Nadgouda
‘ I like working with new tools, (…) However, the challenge in that is to understand the tool before using it for work ‘ Too often we see people having a problem and trying to solve it with just another tool. Please stop and ask yourself the obvious question: “will this new shiny thing help me solve this problem, or should I sit and think for a while first”. The same reasons here as why the adage shoot first, ask questions later never worked
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