LINKBLOG for September 21, 2008
Sep 21st, 2008 by AZuidhof
Passive View and Cyclomatic Complexity – Nick Harrison
Starting off today with some theoretical infoCosmos – C# Open Source Managed Operating System – Chad Z. Hower
Heavy stuff, but you can leave that to Chad. I’ll never forget seeing him speak last year on a UG meeting, where he successfully demo’ed a rocketlauncher directed by his Wii remote.Codebehind files in ASP.NET MVC *ARE NOT* evil – Luisabreu
After an “… are evil” piece you can just wait for the counterpart. Here it isMvcContrib – now with SubController support for ASP.NET MVC : Jeffrey Palermo
Jeffrey points to his addition to MvcContrib
Dissection of a reallife XML file, right from Blizzard’s serversIntroducing the “Dirty Little Secrets” Screencast – Shawn Wildermuth
Shawn launches a new screencast. This first one is on Silverlight, and gives a nice impression in how Expression Blend works. As I have never used it before, I was quite intrigued by the bling-bling of the IDE (do we still call that an IDE?)5 Remote Support Tools for Small Business – Jason Richards
Programming Bytes Part-1 & Introduction to The Series – Gaurav Kalra
While the introduction is not too original (a ScottH copy-paste) this is a nice list of introductions to several languages. Cool stuff for your weekly after work readingInterfaces and isolation – Jimmy Bogard
‘ When I’m using interface-based design, I’m doing so not because of some innate desire to increase testability, but because I want to separate concerns and invert my dependencies ‘ Jimmy explains why he does not need the term Isolation for mocks etc. that Roy coined yesterday.*** Do the right thing. Assuming you know what that is. – Kyle Baley
‘ Let no one forget that learning how to properly use mock objects is *not* an easy task and until you “get” them, they will seem like unnecessary overhead ‘
We can draw at least two lessons here: (1) since learning is hard, we should be kind on the poor souls who haven’t yet seen “the light” and (2) we too are never done learning. And an extension might be that we must not forget to put into practice what we learned. A possible danger (to me at least) is that one learns so much stuff that one might forget to do just that… oopsRelease It! Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software – Jan van Ryswyk
Book review: ‘ (…) go buy and read this book. I have written down so much stuff while reading it, that I probably have enough material for writing blog posts until the end of this year. The book practically pays for itself
‘That Agile Thing – Oren Eini
‘ I usually never mention agile to the customer at all. What I am doing, however, is insisting on a regularly scheduled demo. Usually every week or two ‘ I know someone who insists of asking the customer that we need extra time for unittests. This is not the right approach I’d think. Just like Oren doesn’t mention that he ‘does Agile’ – point in case is: the customer doesn’t care *at all* what technical and methodological stuff you do behind the scenes. They want working software. On time. And they’re totally rightRecommended Books: Working Effectively With Legacy Code – Davy Brion
Note to self: As I currently work with a lot of legacy code, I should really consider reading this bookSimple Trouble Shooting Application Now Fixes Everything – Leon Bambrick
Funny selfrefreshing list. Warning: as useful and dangerous as a doctor who tells you to come back if it still hurts after three weeks
(TFS) Build Tweeter – Now your Team Foundation Server/TeamBuild can tweet too – Greg Duncan
‘ The very cool TFS subscription services is something that has interested me since TFS came out. There’s some pretty cool stuff you can do with it, as this project demonstrates ‘ Sound like cool stuff
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