LINKBLOG for October 8, 2008
Oct 8th, 2008 by AZuidhof
MassTransit 0.4 Released – Chris Patterson
MassTransit is a ‘ a lean service bus implementation for building loosely coupled applications using the .NET framework ‘
‘ I’ve had the opportunity to do some additional study and teaching of DI, and I’ve had that light bulb moment for the proper use of an IoC container ‘10 Programming Proverbs Every Developer Should Know – Kevin Pang
Another version of the 10 **** every dev should knowTest-driven Learning – Andy Hunt
Andy has the idea to apply TDD also to learning a new technology or programming language
‘ Try to write a program in that new language you’re studying’-you’ll need to retrieve the key information to do so ‘Removing duplicate page addresses in MVC – Jason Young
jQuery in ASP.NET – Alt.NET Podcast Episode 11
TortoiseTFS? – ‘Zark’
The new TFS power tools, planned due date at month end, has a slick looking Windows shell extension includedDebunking Productivity Myths – Celine Roque
‘ If your office looks messy, should you clean it up? Before we start criticizing ourselves for not being neat enough, we need to get our semantics straight ‘Things In IT I Am So Tired Off – Andrew Wulf
‘ After you work in IT organizations enough, eventually you build up a list of things you would really like to never see again. Sadly they never seem to go out of style ‘
So trueBeware of the second worst programmer – Gojko Adzic
‘ Code reviews matter. Do them often, read code that other people wrote and get them to read your code ‘
A theory is presented here in a bit of a humorous way that teams know the worst programmer, but forget about the one following the worst. Though there may be truth in there it sounds ilke a negative theory when literally put into practice. I’d rather focus on what these individuals *can* attribute and make it posiible to use them at * their* level of competency. This way you can both use their knowledge and prevent them from doing additional harm to the overall code base
‘ Since I separate my UnitTest code from my production code using separate Visual Studio projects, I am now forced to move the type definitions into a separate project ‘ Not fun if you have to do this all the time. Luckily, ReSharper has a reasonably accessible plugin model to extend it’s default behavior5 Suggestions for Leaving With Style – Thursday Bram
How to deploy a webservice by hand – Gerhard Stephan
‘ “Setup a Web Setup project” Sure, that’s the easiest solution, but not if you see it in a wider scope ‘MSBuild Extension Pack – Mitch Denny
‘ Always happy to see more people taking Microsoft kit and extending it ‘Creating and Applying patches with Subversion (SVN) – DimeCasts.Net Details for # 52
(…) We will walk you though two different ways to do this and explain the pros and cons of each way ‘Starting and Finishing – Johanna Rothman
‘ You certainly can’t finish something you don’t start. But the real question for all of is: Should we start this project at all? ‘Status Reports – Glen Alleman
‘ (…) the basis of Deliverables Based Planning.
Tell what you’re going to deliver. Tell that you delivered it. If not, tell me when you will deliver it ‘Non-nullable reference types – Jon Skeet
(…) on my way home this evening I considered what would be needed for the reverse of nullable value types – non-nullable reference types ‘
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