LINKBLOG for September 17, 2008
Sep 17th, 2008 by AZuidhof
How Important is Formal Education in Web Working? – Celine Roque
The idea here that being successful is not completely dependent on your formal education but mostly what you make of it; apart from the fact that it is not a requirement to succeedAgile Development Cheat Sheet – D. P. Bullington
Back To Basics: Algorithms and Going Back To Virtual School – Scott Hanselman
See some cool demo’s of a professor (yeah, turns out professors can be cool) in teaching how for example a sorting algorithms worksXAML Power Toys v2 Released (finally) Code Name: Hawaii – Karl Shifflett
Developing PHP On Your Visual Studio 2008/2005 – Amit Raz
Hmm, I do have a Wordpress blog, but that’s more for pragmatical reasons. Couldn’t image having to do php stuff, and if I had, can’t imagine doing this in VS. Stupid?Important questions for your prospective employer – Jason Young
You know, asking questions like these to a possible employer is just as important as questions the other way around: you *have* to know your possible new environment, otherwise you (and them) might end up disillusioned. And doing the Joel test the other way around in this regard is a nice ideaThree Rules That ASP.NET Developers Should Know About SEO – Adam Tibi
Things you might forget, e.g. how not to loose your Google juice when you change your site from classic ASP to ASP.NETC# vs Ruby – Simone Chiaretta
Simone shows a curious trend, interesting but probably true (both his observations…)Type-safe (but generic) import of ‘char’ separated line based files into objects – Christian Vogt
‘ An article on a generic approach for importing text based data into objects, using Reflection. Supports mass data processing, filter, advanced processing and converting, and some other gimmicks ‘On Proper Role of Mockup Tools and My New Tool Crush – Russell Ball
‘ In the spirit of LEAN and attempting to trim waste from existing processes, I’ve been pondering the optimal amount of effort to spend doing mockups lately ‘ Warning: new tool alert!Functional C# – Pattern Matching – Matthew Podwysocki
Useless Meetings – Jason McDonald
Take away is that ever meeting must bring at least something for *every* attendeeThe rewards from struggling to learn something – Tim Stall
‘ It’s inevitable, so get used to it. The goal of a developer is to solve technical problems, and problems often entail a struggle ‘ Absolutely! Can count the times that I learned something from only someone else’s explanation directly on the fingers of one hand; practice, blood, sweat & tears is necessary. Without it you are not a developerAre Cocky Developers Worth It? – Eric Spiegel
They are there for a reason, but can be o so tough to deal with ‘ I actually believe the majority of the team was intimidated by Tyler’s technical prowess ‘Wiggio: An Extra Simple Collaboration Tool – Thursday Bram
Tools. This week I had a revelation: someone refuses to use our 100K tool – a fully functional Application Lifecycle Management tool; +1 for the first one who gets it right
. Reason: there are already so many tools. This one could easily replace them all. Lesson learned. It’s not about buying the tools, it’s about selling them to users. What does this all have to do with this link? Nothing. Sorry.Gmail: Turn Gmail into a Tagged Knowledge Base – Adam Pash
What is an Architecture Style? – Mike Walker
What to Do with Left Over Stories – David Starr
‘ Re-estimate the story and put it back on the backlog ‘GitHub blog – David Baldwin
this is absolutely the w00t-geek-cool link of the day: hosting your blog *inside* a source control repository
via Twitter-Matt BlodgetWhat to do if your MS SQL Server 2005 eats 100% CPU at idle – Szymon Kobalczyk
Solution is nice, but in this case I’m a bit worried, would like a root cause here, otherwise you just know you will be in trouble againHow you outsource…. – ‘William’
‘ What you don’t know can hurt you. Sometimes the world can change under your feet and you never saw it coming ‘ J.D. doesn’t like this feeling – who does? – so dug in and did some investiging into recent trends in software developments. He lists a multitude of pointers to other people’s opinions, and (Wikipedia) resources. Interesting stuff if you like to stay on top of thingsHow to Write a Spam Rule for Community Server 2008.5 – Keyvan Nayyeri
Integrating StructureMap and NHibernate with WCF – Jimmy Bogard
‘ Typically, in an ASP.NET environment, we’ll follow a Session per Request pattern, and only one ISession object is associated with one request by storing the ISession in HttpContext.Items ‘Forms interaction with ASP.NET MVC (screencast) – Maarten Balliauw
‘ This screencast is a short demonstration on how you can handle form interactions using the ASP.NET MVC framework ‘Typewriter – xkcd (by Randall Munroe)
This is for all of you who are now wondering what on earth a typewriter is
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