LINKBLOG for October 28, 2008
Oct 28th, 2008 by AZuidhof
writing_a_test – Sean Feldman
‘ an interesting fact is that the influence of TDD/BDD has caused to be more “expressive” ‘Composing Statements with Expression Trees in .NET 3.0 – Chad Myers
‘ I don’t believe you could craft whole, complex programs via Expression Tree manipulation, but I would be delighted to be proven wrong in this statement ‘Smart Code Generator: Use ASP.NET, NAnt and Cassini for Code Generation – Shahed Khan
Get Smart: Storyotypes in your backlog – Chris Spagnuolo
‘ (…) iinstead of “Get smart on the dojo toolkit“, try to rewrite the story to maybe say something like “In order to send complex data between the client and server as json, as a delivery team we want to research the dojo toolkit and the ASP.NET MVC ‘Failure as an event – Seth Godin
‘ (…) when you see failure as a learning event, not a destination, it makes you smarter, faster.
Some big ones from my past (…) ‘ Scott shares failures from his past with us, for our learningNot At PDC
In case you did not know that the “rest of us” also have a website. And a Twitter feedClosure Tip – Peter Ritchie
Closures are one of those things that make me dazzle. Here’s a clear and consice explanation what these creatuers are – and what you can do with themHow To Make Your Portfolio Better And Get More Clients: Part 2 – Taiyab
‘ (…) there are an abundance of ways for freelancers to market their portfolio in order to get more exposure and ultimately get better clients ‘SaaS: Amazon EC2 for Windows == Disappointment – Mitch Denny
We are all amateurs blindly stumbling in the dark! – Jonas Bandi
‘ Programming has become too complex. I suspect that we have lost it for good! ‘Microsoft and OpenID. *yawn* – Barry Dorrans
‘ I’ll cheer when I can use my existing, Information Card protected, OpenID on a mainstream Microsoft website ‘
I was a little quick yesterday in just linking to Microsoft’s OpenID support. As Barry rightfully notes Microsoft has to start accepting *other* OpenID providers than only their own, to really support more widespread adoptionCustom Validation and Business Logic in ASP.NET Dynamic Data using Partial Methods – Rachel Appel
Specifying Injection Constructor using Unity Fluent Interface for Loose Coupling and POCO – David Hayden
‘ The reason I know there are no ill effects? Unit tests, baby! None o’ this “let’s take a stroll through the application and see if it still works” nonsense for me ‘Navigating Xaml Resources with ReSharper – Christopher Bennage
Christopher realized he (you too!) can use ReSharper to also conquer his XAMLHow and when to use Extension Methods in C# and .NET – ASP.NET FAQ
The what and how of Extension methods8 Tremendously Important Ways That Gratitude Can Change Your Life – Leo Babauta
Quote of the day: ‘ “If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, “thank you,” that would suffice.” – Meister Eckhart ‘From Delegate to Lambda – Mark Blomsma
‘ The key to understanding lambda expressions lies in understanding delegates ‘ So, this article will tell you all about the latterWhat class of programmer are you? – Scott Pio
‘ (…) the average programmer does not sit on the bleeding edge nor do they sit on the back burner waiting for the coils to get hot enough to jump ship ‘Finding the Value in Niche Networking – Scott Blitstein
Networking in this day and age is so much broader than only the business area you’re working in. Scott points to some communities that extend the “one-size-fits-all” Twitters and Facebooks of this world
‘ The number one thing that makes me nervous about a potential client is when they’re hesitant to sign a contract. Not because of anything in the contract per se, they just don’t like contracts, period ‘PDC 2008 Resources – Rhonda Tipton
Rhonda conveniently lists the PDC 2008 resources, so I don’t have to. Thanks!
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