LINKBLOG for October 20, 2008
Oct 20th, 2008 by AZuidhof
Beware of future creep – Jamis Buck
Yes, you read the title right ‘ It is so easy to fall into this trap, since it runs under the heading of “saving myself work down the road ‘Software Development Methodologies Zoo – Johnny Idol
From Waterfall to XPThe scalability of Scrum – Chip Lemmon
‘ (…) Can Scrum scale? Can a single Scrum Master effectively run multiple scrums? And can a team truly follow Scrum if they are an on-shore/off-shore mix? ‘Should a Team Swarm on to One Backlog Item at a Time? – Mike Cohn
‘ (…) while I think swarming in this way is an excellent technique to use sometimes, I don’t think it should be the default way of working for very many teams ‘Getting ReSharper and VS to play nice with MSpec – Aaron Jensen
Bending ReSharper to your will even moreSpeeding up ASP.NET with the Runtime Page Optimizer – James Newton-King
FriendDA – Rands In Repose
From now on we’re covered when sharing a possibly ground breaking idea with our most intimate friends: Rands developed the Friend Disclosure Agreement!Podcast Roundup – Russell Ball
Nice list. See some other contributions in the comment. Together they almost cover *my* current reading list, saving me from a post on podcasts that was already planned somewhere this week
‘ This discussion should finally draw the curtain on the idea that ALT.Net is anti-Microsoft ‘ This would be terrific, if all the unnecessary negative discussions finally seize, and everyone gets back to work. There’s stuff to be built, not people to be offended, you knowVisual Studio Tips and Running an Agile Team with Sara Ford – Deep Fried Bytes #15
Looks like a must-listen podcast for us (me?) alt.netters and agile aficionadosNHibernate 2.0, SQLite, and In-Memory Databases – Justin Etheredge
‘ (…) anyone who is having issues with in-memory SQLite databases and NHibernate 2, check this post out! ‘Spikes Must Be Accounted For – Dave Donaldson
‘ The word “spike” is an agile term, but it’s certainly not specific to agile-only projects; in non-agile projects, a spike is commonly referred to as a proof-of-concept ‘Macro for quickly selecting a complete X(a/o)ml tag – Ruurd Boeke
Automate relentlessly, as long as you are pretty sure you will get the investment back! ‘ I often use the control-m-m shortcut to collapse a tag and then select it. However, a few days ago I took 5 minutes to automate this ‘The Code Review Potluck – Ben Northrop
Ben is defining CodeReview 2.0, ’cause oldskool 1.0 is too time consuming ‘ (…) I came up with something that worked for us. I call it the Code Review Potluck. Here are the rules ‘WSCF.classic: WSCF 0.7 now open source on CodePlex – Christian Weyer
Saw Christian on a conference earlier this year, where he was demonstrating WCF and WF. Think he refered to this project in that speach, but don’t know for sure. If you do DesignByContract, then you definitely want to see this!
via Chris AlcockEventing in WCF – Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz
via Alvin AshcraftJack – Confluence
‘ (…) a toolkit for mocking JavaScript objects and functions. The project aims to help developers write short and readable JavaScript tests ‘
via Steve PietrekHow to Do Many Projects (Part 2): Matrix Management – Jurgen Appelo
‘ I believe it is imperative that managers understand the work their employees do. There’s little reason for software developers to work with a manager who cannot distinguish a bit from a byte ‘
Jurgen shares his strong opinions on project management, strong in the sense that not everyone will be convinced that a direct manager should know his/her employees domain intimately. I personallly think this is really important, cause if you don’t at least you’re completely dependent on the employee’s technical judgment. You are managing technical people, not soldiers, plumbers or whatever
‘ Unlike vanilla TDD, the artifacts produced by BDD can and should be read by more than just developers ‘Bloglines: Bloglines Not Updating Feeds – Gina Trapani
Don’t know about your feedreader of choice, but mine has been Google Reader for some choice. Somehow I think I made a wise decision, even though I sticked to Bloglines for a very long time
Glenn discusses basic OO principles in regard to how much coupling to something like WPF is desirableIs Product Splintering The Future Of Software? – Max Pool
Max has been analyzing toothpaste intensively, noting an analogy with software, and concludes: ‘ Software in the future may also become smaller and more specialized solving only the one or two biggest problems ‘
‘ Whilst dynamic controls have their uses in a small number of cases, they come with a significant amount of extra baggage. For example (… read on…) ‘
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