LINKBLOG for September 22, 2008
Sep 22nd, 2008 by AZuidhof
Don’t Go For The Doughnut – Max Pool
The intricate calculations behind doing a major amount of overtime, being rewarded with a seemingly nice $100 gift card. Which translates to $0.31/hr in this case. Don’t know anything about current wages in the US, but my take is that 31 cents per hour is not what most of you would like to work for… Max has some advice for usWhat Was Stack Overflow Built With? – Jeff Atwood
Everything on StackOverflow that is two days old is really…old news probably. Still I found it nice to see the technology used behind the site. Although (apart from SVN and BeyondCompare a bit predictable, knowing it is built on top of .NET. Will be interesting to see how ASP.NET MVC scales though.Is Teaching TDD Worth It? – Davy Brion
‘ There’s a debate going on the ALT.NET mailinglist about whether or not teaching developers TDD for a project is worth the cost ‘ Man, I’m missing out on interesting stuff! On the other hand – as Davy himself mentions – a lot of potentially interesting stuff is discussed over there, but you have to seperate the wheat from the chaff, which just costs me too much timeWhy SOLID? GIMME AN L! – Dave Laribee
Arriving at the ‘L’, Dave today talks about the Liskov Substition Principle, another basic tenet of OO design ‘ I believe LSP and everything it supports form part of the justification for another principle: favor composition over inheritance ‘
… and more on basic design principles here in this post from JeremyPromoting Your Community Efforts the Right Way – Dawn Foster
‘ I wish there was an easy answer to the best way to get the word out about your community; however, it really comes down to basic marketing principles ‘Downloadable Slide-decks: “Build your own Tiny Software Company”/”F# eye for the C# guy” – Leon Bambrick
‘ Here’s a fistful of powerpoint slides from the talks I gave at tech-ed australia ‘Castle ActiveRecord with multiple databases – Changhong Fu
Commented-Out Code and Broken Windows – Jan van Ryswyk
‘ To me, a piece of code that contains commented-out lines is just another piece of crap ‘ I always feel like Ive done civilization a service when I remove old commented-out code from version-controlled source, so agreed here. Davy, on the other hand, has some situations where he leaves it, thoughTop 10 Windows Forms Articles You Must Read – Suprotim Agarwal
Options have value. Options expire – Corey Ladas‘
Pending work requests are always temporally contextual. They can only represent current understanding and intent, and the world will change before they enter production ‘ Morale here is that, while change is a given, this is not a problem as long a you know what has to be done *next*: sounds very like the GTF concept of NextActionJavaScript gets Faster: Brendan Eich, CTO of Mozilla Corporation and Creator of JavaScript – Hanselminutes Podcasts 130
Another ‘Hanselminutes’ carrying a big name
Step-by-step description of installing a Windows service on a remote machineLINQ to RSS/ATOM (Kind of) – John Papa
Praise for SyndicationFeed and SyndicationItem: ‘ I’m just thrilled we have these types of tools at our disposal, instead of writing RSS/ATOM parsing routines from scratch using the XmlReader ‘ Another reason to spend more time inside the .NET FCL
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