LINKBLOG for September 23, 2008
Sep 23rd, 2008 by AZuidhof
Bumper-Sticker API Design – Joshua Bloch
The bug that almost drove me mad, and it’s not my bug – Sergio Pereira
Leadership and Self Examination: The 3 Coaching Styles – Jarod Ferguson
Passing objects to SubControllers – Matt Hinze
‘ SubControllers are MVC Controllers that are also parameters to your action methods. Incorporating their use in large systems allows for composition, dependency inversion, and separation of concerns ‘Arrays considered somewhat harmful – Eric Lippert
Learning and craftsmanship – Ian Cooper
‘ Don’t be put off by patterns and practices and assume you have to master all of them before you can begin work. They are there to help you when you need a solution ‘ Me thinks that is key in starting to apply patterns: knowing that you are a continuous learner, and just start to apply them. There is no pattern police to punish you if you do it wrong the first time. Or the second.Two Important Speaking Tips – Chris Brogan
So, What is Duck Typing? – Joel Ross
‘ From my understanding, it meant that as long as I pass something into a method and it supports the interface the method expects, than it’ll work ‘Book review: Pro LINQ – Language Integrated Query in C# 2008, by Joe Rattz – Jon Skeet
Would You Go Back to Fulltime Office Work? – Celine Roque
‘ If telework is as great as promised, why do some people return to the office? ‘How to Build Credibility on the Web – Dustin Wax
REVIEW: ClearContext – Craig Bailey
Never heard of this Outlook productivity tool. Now you have. ‘ It’s not revolutionising my daily productivity or anything outrageous like that, but I can tell you that whenever I re-install my machine, Outlook seems pretty vanilla until I get ClearContext re-installed ‘Tweet-SQL – Yes, even your SQL Server can tweet (coming real soon – Greg Duncan
What is your strategy for becoming a better developer? – Justin Etheredge
‘ This post is my first post about you. Yes, you. I have been thinking a lot recently about what I can do in my everyday practice in order to make myself a better developer ‘ Very inspirationa thisl, it’s obvious I’ve had some posts that cracked through the loops the last couple days. Chime in here if you haven’t already done so
‘ That isn’t to suggest we dumb down TDD or cheapen it by turning it into something else, but rather through our collective experiences come up with a pathway (…) ‘When Unit Tests Fails for the Wrong Reason – Mohammad Azam
‘ although we can use fancy attributes to decorate our unit test methods and cut down on writing more code to satisfy the condition but we make our unit tests terser instead of making it clearer ‘Using Extension Methods in .NET Framework 2.0 – Bobby Johnson
Ten tips to maximize the return on your TDD investment – Jimmy Bogard
Well thought out list. Especially the down-to-earth last one “Expect to fall down”: it is OK to make mistakes. TDD is not something you master in an afternoon (as I can tell from personal experience). My point here is: we need to show the outside majority exactly this. Not play the proverbial architecture astronauts, but take the other by the hand and teach, explain, and mostlly just *show* that it worksUnderstanding State Pattern – Mars Rovers – Sean Feldman
‘ Now it is the time to enjoy the benefit of the state pattern. The logic of what’s next based on the current state and given action is encapsulated in self organized sub objects ‘Active and Current (Stack Frame and Thread) – Daniel Moth
Debuggery tricks inside the VS IDE ‘ Developers that have not used VS2008 in multithreaded programs, tend to forget the usefulness of the red and blue cloth threads icon ‘
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