LINKBLOG for October 11, 2008
Oct 11th, 2008 by AZuidhof
Book Recommendation: Letting Go of the Words - Joshua Porter
‘ If there is one book you should read next, it’s “Letting Go of the Words” by Ginny Redish ‘Keys To Web 3.0 Design and Development When Using ASP.NET - Jon Davis
Long article carefully laying out a plan for the future it you’re an ASP.NET developer (and I should mention one that is more interested in MVC than WebForms)Lesson 1 of 3 from “The Big Moo”: The Problem With Compromise - Brian di Croce
Good lessons to learn from the Japanese car manufacturers in the eighties using a principle they called Kanban: ‘ (…) It turned out to be cheaper and faster to build cars right the first time than it was to fix them later ‘Don’t miss out on the power of “Done” - Scott Schimanski
If you can’t estimate mie-stones, go to “inch-pebbles”: ‘ take smaller pieces of work until you get to an effort/time combination that you can estimate with a feature set you can commit to ‘New ASP.NET MVC Tutorials - Stephen Walther
What is Agile? - Travis Birch
‘ Agile refers to a discipline defined as the middle way of excellence between chaos and bureaucracy. Agile refers to the philosophy that humans do work in a complex world ‘Xml Design Patterns - Tim Stall
‘ So, your xml files are storing lots of mission-critical information. They’re getting huge, being modified by tons of developers, and getting hard to maintain. It’s time to refactor them ‘ Tim kindly provides some ideas to do thisDownload Managers: Integrate Launchy with Wget - Adam Pash
Already use a tool like Launchy that makes you even more of a keyboard Jedi? Gives you all kinds of ways to accelerate finding software and files on your machineSins of Omissions - Oren Eini
‘ I have seen salespeople that push a project that they knew wouldn’t be profitable, just to pocket their commission. When they were called on the carpet for that, they called that Strategic Loss Leader Projects, and continued doing so ‘Rails - Database Access - Kevin Jones
Rails is ‘ an ‘opinionated’ framework, and one of the opinions it has is on the pattern to use for database access. Its choice in this case is the ‘active record’ pattern ‘Agile Estimation using Risk Management Techniques - Carel Lotz
Ninject and Singletons: How To Ensure One Instance per Variation of Activation Parameters - Fredrik Kalseth
‘ I came upon a need to ensure that there only ever existed a single instance of a type, per variation of transient parameters in the activation context. An example will help clarify… ‘WPF: DelayBinding - Paul Stovell
‘ When you use the Outlook 2007 search, Vista’s start search, or the Search bar in Explorer, there’s often a short delay between when you press a key, and when the search begins ‘ code tip to reach something like the same effect using WPFBook review: the myths of innovation - Luis Abreu
Small review, but link to it anyway because this book is so cool and interesting (and I have said that even yesterday…..Polymorphic View: Using the ASP.NET MVC Framework as a JSON Service Provider for Richer Web Applications with MS Ajax Templates and jQuery - Corey Gaudin
‘ Wow, that’s a really long title, but that is what this post is actually about, and why I think it is a great way to handle many web applications today ‘Disassembling .Net Notes: Field Signatures Part 3 - Jason Haley
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