LINKBLOG for September 29, 2008
Sep 29th, 2008 by AZuidhof
Typemock Isolator : Getting internal variables – Dennis van der Stelt
Defining the “Unit” in Unit Testing – Chris Sterling
Big Learning Up Front is wrong too – Jason Grundy
‘ Regarding my philosophy for development in general I believe in incremental design over BDUF. And I’m going to apply this principle directly to TDD, in fact to learning in general ‘Abstraction Is For Both Humans And Software, But Not Software – Max Pool
‘ It is funny how software engineers always tend to simplify problems with one additional level of abstraction; that is, the answer always lays in the next tier of thinking ‘Is ASP.NET MVC Learning Independent from ASP.NET Webforms? – Keyvan Nayyeri
Introducing Lucene.Net – Andrew Smith
‘ A plunge into creating a fast full text index, with advanced searching capabilities ‘1Password + Dropbox = Password Sync – Mike Gunderloy
Visual Studio Team System 2010 Week on Channel 9 – Alvin Ashcraft
’nuff said11 Refreshing Ways to Bring Out the Awesomeness in Life – Jonathan Mead
‘ Drop unwanted commitments ‘ This is a good one, I performed recently. Just give every commitment, whatever small, you have at this moment, serious thought. Do you really want to keep on being tied to this one, preventing you to go into new ones. Or can you, for that matter, just cancel it (without offending or letting someone in need fall, of course: stopping to visit your ill parent twice a week is NOT a particularly good idea). But just give it a thoughtFirst two weeks at Microsoft – Ben Watson
Development Tools I Use & Recommend – Dave Schinkel
A couple dozen tools, almost certainly you’ll find some new ones to investigate
Add functionality to good old Solitaire using some good old disassemblingWhy Server Virtualization – Ad Weterings
Lists some reasons why you should at least consider the option of virtualizing your machinesRequest for Help: Need better guidance for beginners – Chad Myers
Chad was astonished to see an article on coding standards to contain a lot of bad practices. Unfortunately the article is retreated by the original author, making it difficult to judge (I did yesterday however, and I agree with Chad here…)
Wanting to turn a negative into a positive he proposes that we find a way to offer a general concensus on fundamentals to beginners that all can agree on. Great idea, always like it when someone want to get novices into the community!Focus on the Cloud, not the Clouds – Dan Pritchett
‘ Storage is just beginning to mature in the cloud and (…) nobody has clear answers yet on the security and compliance related issues ‘*** jQuery to Ship as Part of Visual Studio – Dare Obasanjo
Saw this announcement first here at Dare’s; read on over there. ScottGu has more, as usual. An official VS1 compliant download will be available in a couple weeksScott Hanselman’s Computer Zen – jQuery to ship with ASP.NET MVC and Visual Studio
… and Scott already prepped a nice clean tutorial post!Agile is more disciplined than Waterfal, so sayeth Jason Yip (and me) – Jeremy D. Miller
‘ Agile development, assuming that you’re doing it competently, is far more disciplined in the small, day to day activities than we were in my old waterfall shop ‘ Jeremy gives one of the best Agile things to do is to throw overboard all process ceremony that flows around Waterfall. I know personally that different departments can keep each other in a deadlock situation really: waiting for something the other party has to deliver before resuming action. Terrible thing that can completely grind your development to a halt. This post carries an important message!
Btw: this post refers to an Agile/Lean oriented blog from Jason Yip, looks interesting
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