LINKBLOG for September 25, 2008
Sep 25th, 2008 by AZuidhof
Beware of slow descents into unmaintainability – Jason Grundy
Strategy Pattern With Ninject – Steve Smith
Steve shows hands-on how a Inversion of Control container such a Ninject, helps you setting up a decoupled Strategy scenario. This is new stuff to me, so I replayed this scenario. Wonderful how this IoC thing resolves your dependencies. At first it looks like magic and some weird trickery going on, but do spend some time if this is all new to youHow many test should I write? – Alkampfer
‘ More tests you write, and more you will appreciate them, do not try to introduce difficult metrics (like high percentage of code coverage), because you will only make developers hating tests ‘Manage Passwords in the Cloud Across Platforms and Devices – Kevin C. Tofel
Put your encrypted password file in something like the free Dropbox, and access it from every machine you use (and if you cannot install Dropbox, you can even access your files via it’s web interface‘Pre-crime’ detector shows promise – Tom Simonite
Cool, not long before we can check whether our leaders are lying. Just get a truck with this FAST stuff and drive it up to the White House.
Seriously, how far do we want to go with this. 1984 anyone?Boxing / Unboxing and passing by ‘ref’ – Chris Skardon
lots of MSIL code: pop, call and ldloc floating all aroundReading Erlang: Inspecting CouchDB – Oren Eini
Oren is on a trip into a wonderful and strange language called Erlang. To me it’s as much abacadabra as Perl, so I politely skip it. But you might give it a chance, if you do something like a ’source code reading adventure’Blogging God Steve Pavlina Interview: On Motivation, Handling Email, Daily Routines, How He Got Started, and Much More – Leo Babauta
Honing your Craft – Ethan Vizitei
‘ Why settle for a professional when you could get a guru? ‘Little Secret – Jan van Ryswyk
‘ I’ll let you in on a little secret. The key to writing good comments is … (rolling the drums) … not writing them at all! Let me elaborate on that ‘Browser Rendering Differences and Browser Resets – Rick Strahl
Abstract for Application Architecture Guide 2.0 – J.D. Meier
The Art of Agile Development (Book) – Sean Feldman
Agreed. Good book. I’m somewhere halfway in it at the moment; you can even buy it from the Amazon widget on my blog (hint, hint)The Case of the Slooooow System – Mark Russinovich
After a long break, Mark finally has another installmentGetting Things Done – Mohammad Azam
Mohammad explains how he gets so much done while still having a lifeHow NOT To Optimize LINQ Statements – Nick Berardi
Syntax error? Really?!?! – Jan Schreuder
The Me Game – Chris Brogan
‘ If you see me at a conference, I’ll be the guy with my hand out, shaking with someone and trying to lead them into my little circle of friends, to see if there’s someone you’ll find something in common with amongst the group I’ve gathered together ‘The Weekly Source Code 34 – The Rise of F# – Scott Hanselman
On Identity and Collaboration – Kaliya Hamlin
The Driving Forces Behind My Coding Compulsion – Russell Ball
In what seems like a continuing quest to receive a $100 Amazon gift cert, Russell today continues to talk about the positive side of things
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