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LINKBLOG for September 19, 2008

Sep 19th, 2008 by AZuidhof

Too much type information, or welcome back System.Object and boxing – Kirill Osenkov
‘ I hit a rare case recently where I had too much static type information about my code, so I had to use System.Object (and boxing) to get the desired effect ‘
ASP.NET MVC Beta1 in a few weeks and v1 by end of year – Simone Chiaretta
‘ ScottGu says feature complete MVC beta “in a few weeks”. final v1 by end of year ‘
Avoiding Dependencies – Steve Smith
Nice job of showing how to refactor all too coupled code into a clean solution
TDD, Contracts, and Reading the Fine Print – Dave Laribee
‘ When we’re driving out interfaces and using a nice mock objects framework, we need to think about our consumers when we dive into a dependency and drive it out ‘
ASP.NET MVC Application Building: Family Video Website #4 “ Paging, Silverlight and Flip – Stephen Walther
ASP.NET MVC RedirectUrl on Login – Tyler Jensen
SubControllers in ASP.NET MVC – Matt Hinze
‘ We wanted the ability to push behavior decisions to smaller and smaller pieces, and reuse those pieces on other pages. We needed testability, dependency injection and minimal friction. We needed composition ‘ They needed SubControllers, so “they” implemented them theirselves. What a wonderful world that we can implement features ourselves these days through things like MVCContrib
Coercion is not Sustainable – Jim Benson
‘ Tell me and I will forget, show me and I may remember, involve me and I’ll understand ‘
Wow, this is enough Chinese wisdom to make my day!
Agile projects and the project context – Craig Brown
What’s next for Microsoft’s Visual Studio – Mary Jo Foley
‘ The next version of Microsoft’s Visual Studio development environment, known for now by its “Visual Studio (VS) ” codename, is beginning to take shape ‘
via FriendFeed / Jon Galloway
How Decoupled is The Innovation Economy From Rest of The Economy? – Bernard Lunn
Good question in these harsh times
Keyboard Shortcuts to Use with Remote Desktop – Peter Provost
Network Monitor 3.2 has released – Erwin
TDD design trade-offs and junk food – Jimmy Bogard
‘ When doing TDD in a top-down behavioral design fashion, I create interfaces well before I ever create an implementation for them. And that’s reducing cost (…) ‘
Dependency Injection (DI) with Generics (or maybe not)? – Jay Kimble
Jay creates his own implementation of DI. Read the comments, they add tremendous value here
Creating a menu for your ASP.NET MVC website using HTML helpers – Peter Eysermans
‘ The advantage of using ActionLink is that it takes the defined routes into account so you don’t have to worry about that ‘
Mother’s Maiden Name – Charles Miller
So Sara Palin had her mailbox broken into because of an all to easy to guess “security question”. Apparently she doesn’t read my linkblog, cause I warned for this some weeks ago . Now everyone talks about it. Maybe that is the positive twist to this whole issue. Greg Hughes shows exactly why these questions are such a bad idea. By the way, this is mainly (only?) a problem if you forget the password of your email box itself and you don’t have a secondary account to have a resetted password sent to. If you forget the credentials of an online service, it can safely reset your password and send it to your email box. No security issue there.