LINKBLOG for October 3, 2008
Oct 3rd, 2008 by AZuidhof
Loading Assemblies in Silverlight – Ruurd Boeke
‘ Loading assemblies in Silverlight can be a bit hard because everything is packaged up in a Xap file. If you want to get to all the assemblies and start instantiating types, you’ll quickly run into a wall. However (…) ‘ read onThose pesky indexers! – Marcus Bratton
‘ What I’m suggesting here isn’t revolutionary at all but I’m constantly surprised at the number of shops that let this sort of behaviour go on ‘ToDelimitedString Extension Method – Chris Brandsma
‘ Take a given generic list (or something that implements IEnumerable, and convert it to a delimited string ‘How to Install Your Own Subversion Version Control Server Using Visual SVN – Amit Raz
Epiphany on a plumber – Kyle Baley
‘ I told a condensed version of this story on Twitter but it bears repeating in a more rambling format ‘A few thoughts on the role of software architects – Joe Duffy
Great article, though a bit long‘ The word “architect” means different things to different people in the context of software engineering. And it varies wildly depending on the kind of organization you’re in ‘Management By Getting Out of the Way – Bob Sutton
‘ (…) sometimes the best thing a person that high status leaders can do is to physically remove themselves from the setting (…) ‘ Great post! Just wishing more ‘leaders’ have the guts to trust their minions to fulfill their tasksBook Review: Clean Code – Jan van Ryswyk
Jan just finished another bookWhat the Certification Sales Lady Said… – James Bach
James finds himself in an actually hilarious conversationThe A-Z of Programming Languages: C# – Naomi Hamilton
Computerworld.com interview with the Father of C#, Anders Hejlsberg
via devtopics.comPlaying around with ASP.NET MVC – Patrick Steele
A simlpe MVC-howto, in case you haven’t tried it so farHave you ever wanted to monitor a website for changes? – Don Hughes
Tool alert!Introduction to NHibernate: Setting up your Mappings – DimeCasts.Net Details for # 51
‘ In this episode you will learn about how to install NHibernate as well as how get started with XML mappings to your object domain mode ‘ And indeed: as I was setting up NHibernate two days ago for the first time (really!), this is quite a hassle to get done correctlyUsing the ASP.NET MVC ModelBinder attribute – Second part – Maarten Balliauw
Back to the basics: should I initialize my variables? – Luis Abreu
Running Windows 2008 Server as development machine – Simone Chiaretta
Simone shares the list of tools for his shiny new installNew White Papers – Steve McConnell
Steve has some new seemingly interesting white papers on his site (you need a free registration, just so you know if that bothers you)7 Requirements Analysis techniques – Greg Brown
wonderful quote: ‘ (…) if you are just going and collecting information and then passing it onto the development team you are a waiter, not a business analyst ‘Slim – ‘Uncle’ Bob Martin
‘ Slim is a new testing front-end and back-end that I’m adding to FitNesse. Here’s what it’s all about ‘More Tips For Working Remotely – Scott Watermasysk
‘ Friends and family always say, ‘”it is great you don’t even have to leave the house to work’” but what they don’t get is I don’t have to leave work to go home ‘ForEach method exceptions and events – Ramon Smits
‘ I experienced weird application behaviour and the cause was that a subscription raised an exception causing other subscribers not receiving my precious event! ‘When you stand for something – Seth Godin
‘ It’s frustrating to watch marketers, politicians and individuals fall into the obvious trap of trying to stand for something at the same time they try to please everyone or do everything ‘Introducing The Equationater – John Graham-Cumming
Create mathy looking equations, export in png. The fact that you write LaTeX code to achieve this makes it worth twice as much to me: some years ago I tried to do all my documents in LaTeX. Which is cool, but the rest of the world thinks otherwise. So unfortunately I dropped it since. But nothing beats LaTeX when it comes to eleganceTesting Pre-Requisite – Care About Your Code – Tim Barcz
(…) I will fix the code as I see it. The codebase is being phased out but that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be cared for ‘ Around me I see people thinking “well this code is obsolete in 6 months, so let it rest in peace”. Tim is of the opposite opinion: care about both old *and* new code as you go. Agreed!ASP.NET MVC Routing and Parameters – Daniel O’Connor
‘ (…) it turns out, if the variables are passed through as part of the query string then MVC is able to address the variables to their correct names ‘ASP.NET MVC, What about SEO? – Jason Young
Mainly: beware of duplicate links/text as the Google doesn’t like thatASP.NET MVC and Dojo: dojo.xhrPost to a Controller – Dave Bouwman
Welcome dear visitor! I'm your host, Arjan Zuidhof. Have a look around on this opinionated linkblog, take a peek at the links, and if you like what you see, don't forget to subscribe to the feed (at the top, on your right) and receive fresh links daily in your reader.
Dutch? You might be interested in my -new!!!- link blog 
[...] LINKBLOG for October 3, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof) [...]