LINKBLOG for October 9, 2008
Oct 9th, 2008 by AZuidhof
From Tesla Motors to the “Patriot Hack” – Martin Eberhard on Protecting Your Privacy Online – Tim Ferriss
Reprint of an article by Martin Eberhard, evolving around building an application that – in an attempt to project your privacy online – silently performs thousands of random search engine calls in the background
‘ Although I care a lot about privacy and recognize its defense as a patriotic act, I am not the one to write Haystack.
Are you? ‘Cheat Sheet: patterns & practices Catalog at a Glance Posted to CodePlex – J.D. Meier
9 Options, 4 Icons, 1 MessageBox – Bil Simser
‘ You know there are things in life that you never notice or worry about. This is one of them ‘Having Console apps write out Xml so you can parse their output – Tim Stall
Dealing with Content Theft on Blogger vs WordPress – Amit Agarwal
Amit finds his contents copied by a splogger. Had to put in some effort, but was successful in removing the culpritDesign Patterns — Part 6 – Granville Barnett
‘ When you have an existing API that is heavily reliant on certain interfaces within it and a newer side-by-side (SxS) API comes into production that is reliant on very similar interfaces what do you do? ‘How to build an application – Oren Eini
‘ I am currently working (well, sort of, more playing around) on the NHibernate Profiler. I thought that this would be a good time to describe how I approach most development tasks ‘Have I lost my faith? – Jonas Bandi
Jonas has seen just a couple too many projects that use their own YAGNI ‘mother of all frameworks’:
‘ (…) then the 80-20 rule kicks in and all the special cases threaten to turn TheFramework(tm) into a big ball of mud ‘MSBuild Extension Pack First Impression – Chris Eargle
Using Brail View Engine with ASP.NET MVC – Keyvan Nayyeri
‘ Brail is a view engine designed for MonoRail and is a part of Castle project in which you are able to build text-based views for your applications (…) ‘Resorts Aren’t Necessary for Strategic Planning – Johanna Rothman
‘ You might still need to do an offsite once a year. But not a really ritzy resort, where the booze, the golf, and spa treatments take you away from the business at hand ‘Is Google the new Real Networks? – ‘Angry Hacker’
A look into the hidden world of Browser Helper Objects and more that Google might have silently installed on your machine. Result: these objects might be less helpful than you realizeDisassembling .Net Notes and Field Signatures Part 1 – Jason Haley
Jason dives into the world of assembly signaturesjQuery – The Man, The Myth, The Legend – Dave Bush
‘ I admit it. I’ve been ignoring jQuery for quite a while. But I have a tendency to do that with most new things ‘ But now Dave jumped in and discovers the beauty of jQuery. Me? I still live in ignorance…The growing productivity divide – Seth Godin
Seth has a simple quiz to check if you can handle being a knowledge worker in 2008. Combined with the implication that this leads to a new divide: those that get things done more efficiently because they live and breathe online, and those that don’tBlogs I Follow – October 2008 – Justin Etheredge
Justin shares his big list of (.NET) software development blogs
Shameless plug: I already cover the majority of them for your convenience. And discovered some interesting new ones while skimming through this list. Thanks Justin!Increasing the productivity of software development – Sander Hoogendoorn
‘ Developers tend to go along with every new tool, framework or language extension that comes of the Microsoft, Sun, IBM, Oracle or open source band wagons (…) resulting in much time being spend on solving technology issues, rather than customer issues ‘Exceptional Exception Handling Behavior – Davy Brion
Help out here and receive the “Davy Brion’s Hero Of The Week” awardOld Code, New Testing Tricks – breaking old habits – Steve Hebert
‘ I ran into a variation on an old threading problem the other day that I found nearly impossible to unit test ‘Building better web forms: Validation best practices – Janko Jovanovic
‘ Poor validation can make considerable damage to the system and user experience. Not having any kind of validation is out of the question ‘Use Risk Management to Make Solid Commitments – James Shore
‘ Making and meeting commitments. Over and over, when I ask executives what they want from their teams, I’ve found this to be one of the top priorities ‘Hair on fire – Joel Spolsky
‘ I didn’t know what AutoUpdate was, but the eleventh time I heard that it was going to be done “today” I started to detect a pattern ‘Mapping from a type to an instance of that type – Jon Skeet
All you need to know about .NET Remoting – ‘Onxonx’
Nice listFive tips for Low Friction Projects – Paul Stovell
‘ This is a short list of things I see people doing on projects, or things I wish I could see them doing on projects, that can have a profound impact on their productivity and quality ‘
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