LINKBLOG for October 24, 2008
Oct 24th, 2008 by AZuidhof
The Aaron and Mike Show – 10. 23. 2008 – Mike Hall & Aaron Lerch
Mike Hall and Aaron Lerch just started a new webcast/show, that will be broadcast on a weekly basis. It’s a random talk between two geeks on several topics. I’d say that more of us should start doing something like this. Can’t be too difficult, can it? And it would be a great way to share experiences, and basically just a good way to see how we all look like (guess most of us have never seen most of the other ppl they know online)Our “Opinions” on the ASP.NET MVC (Introducing the Thunderdome Principle) – Jeremy D. Miller
‘ So many of us are so thrilled at seeing an official Front Controller / MVC framework for ASP.NET development that I think we’ve forgotten to ask ourselves “Is this thing any good?” ‘Product Owner as Lifeguard – Jared Richardson
‘ If we want our projects, and our company, to succeed we’ve got to look around, see what’s not working, and go after it ‘Including Impediments on the Burndown Chart – Fredrik Kalseth
‘ (…) by including a series in the chart which shows the time spent on impediments subtracted from the burndown, we can see where we would have been if there were no impediments ‘Throughput vs. Velocity – Wayne Allen
‘ Throughput and velocity are ways of measuring how fast a team can do work. Knowing how fast a team is going allows the team and their stakeholders to know when something is going to be done ‘ I never worked with these agile estimation techniques before, but a couple week ago we had an Agile workshop with 2 external trainers. We did an exercise just like the one described here, and it was absolutely insightful to see how former estimations can be used to predict how fast you can expect to be able to deliver in the future. Also, we saw that it velocity differs from team to team, and that it has little value to compare the rates between themSoftware Testing – Revisited – Alex Mueller
Alex, former developers turned tester, shares the difference in attitude between the two fieldsNow a New Life Begins – Keyvan Nayyeri
What I want from an ORM – Colin Jack
‘ (…) some of the things I’d like to see in an ORM in the future, particularly to support DDD cleanly ‘Tricksy Dispatcher & Running Tests in TDD.NET – Christopher Bennage
Dependency injection with Castle Windsor: Source code and links – Gojko Adzic
Linking here for wanting to dig deeper into the Castle stack of products myself. You might want to consider this too if you’re looking for a set of open source tools that is aimed to make you more productive as a developer. In case you want, a tip: start out with NHibernate, as Castle is standing on NHibernate’s shoulders, so to speakMy Year With TDD – Brian Genisio
Brian started using TDD a year ago, didn’t find is yielding enough improvements. Until he got a good tip (which sounds simple but was actually an exercise in self control: ‘ Try it completely for 30 days. If you don’t find the value in it, then move along and look for something else ‘Windows on Amazon EC2 – Jeffrey McManus
‘ Three weeks ago, Amazon announced a private beta of their Windows hosting service on EC2; today they are opening EC2 on Windows up to everyone ‘
Not an Amazon plug from my side, only want to show that “the cloud” is developing in such a fast pace. So don’t blame me later for not telling you
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