LINKBLOG for October 21, 2008
Oct 21st, 2008 by AZuidhof
How Microsoft uses TFS – Grant Holliday
Some great resources if you want to learn more about how Microsoft uses the product internallyLeveraging Existing ASP.NET Features in ASP.NET MVC – Ben Scheirman
Regarding the MVC framework: ‘ You’ll be relieved to know that many of ASP.NET’s platform features work the same way they always have ‘Memoization for dummies – Bart de Smet
‘ With memoization we’ll be able to keep our original functional definition (using recursion), while improving the performance ‘ Once again Bart goes deep into functional programming, algorithms and stuffCarTrackr – Sample ASP.NET MVC application – Maarten Balliauw
Sample app using several techniques and recent tools/apps like Unity, LinqToSQL, OpenID for authenticationSome notes on routing in classic ASP.NET web applications – Alex Thissen
‘ Routing in .NET 3.5 SP1 differs from regular request handling in many ways. Here’s a quick outline how routing works ‘ASP.NET MVC Pro’s and Con’s – Jason Young
JQuery, the very very basics – Lesson 6 – ‘xxxd’
Brad produces a wonderfully clear ScottGu-length article on building a Ajax site on ASP.NET (not MVC)
via Twitter / Keyvan NayyeriThe Quest for a Personal Information Manager: MyInfo vs Evernote – Jan van Ryswyk
I personally am using an outdated tabbed editor called Keynote (yes, just like Apple’s PowerPoint). Nothing fancy, and it is not in active development anymore, but a nice store to keep all this data that you just don’t want to loose. Reading Jan’s post though, I feel there is a need coming up for something better.Compromising Electromagnetic Emanations of Wired Keyboard – Martin Vuagnoux and Sylvain Pasini
Be careful what you type!
via nu.nl (Dutch news site)The Universal Design Pattern – Steve Yegge
Steve is completely into design patterns with his latest massive installment. No idea what it’s all about (will try to read it later), it looks patterny at least. But my goodness, 12,763 words!Planning To Redesign Your Website? Check these Simple Tips – Amit Agarwal
Amit shares quite a lot of good tips in this post
‘ MouseEmu, short for Mouse Emulator, is a free Windows utility (~10kb only) that lets you control the mouse pointer using the keyboard ‘
Just wanted to share with you, from keyboard jedi to Keyboard JediHow To Localize Your Application Using String Tables – Shahar Y
…is easy peacy*** Leaving Elcom – looking for my next role – Craig Bailey
Job switches are daily business, I don’t normally link to them. This one is different, because of the passion that just flows from it. And: Craig needs your help! ‘
My preference is to find my next role via the community. So, consider this a social networking experiment ‘
Wow, what a brave step posting this out in the open! Don’t youI think a lot of people silently would like to announce a job switch this way, only to be withheld from it by fear of… well, the unknown. But judging from the passionate way Craig closes this post, he is not afraid whatsoever! Oh, and do read his followup on what he sees as his ideal roleCAPTCHAs and Friends ‘Primal Skill’
‘ I never understood why a website punishes their users instead of punishing the spammer ‘
We would if there was a foolproof wayCopySourceAsHTML 3.0 has been released – Jan Schreuder
Sharing ReSharper settings in your team – Michel Grootjans
‘ ReSharper has a lot of customizable features, and we just figured out how to share these ‘
This is ridiculously easy: just add a file with your shared settings to source control and you’re doneException handling using Enterprise application block – Shivprasad Koirala
shows -using lots of pictures- how to use this Microsoft tool that a lot of folks seem to have difficulties with (me included here!) ‘ The best part of exception handling block is you can change policy on fly without compiling the code. You can also change the error logging source from event viewer to file or email ‘Publishing 2.0: Tim Ferriss on Using a Viral Idea to Create a Best-seller – Leo Babauta
‘ No longer does publishing a best-seller require a top name, crazy advertising budgets, or big-media exposure (at least, not at first). Now you can take your book viral ‘ Leo interview Tim Ferriss of 4 hour workweek fame
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