LINKBLOG for October 29, 2008
Oct 29th, 2008 by AZuidhof
MVC Storefront Preview 1 Available – Rob Conery
‘ There is a lot of work left to be done but I thought it would be a good idea to package up a Preview so that people can play with the site and the code ‘The Devil’s IT Manual: Part 3 – Phrases with which to discourage ideas – Phil Factor
‘ Write me a paper on the sub ‘
Yes, yes. Flash from the past coming up..the pain!Getting jQuery Intellisense Functioning in Visual Studio 2008 – Robert Bazinet
QuakeLight, the Silverlight port of Quake, is coming… – Adam Kinney
Ahhh, Quake! Haven’t played in maybe 8 years, but clearly remember playing on the Quake servers till 2 A.M. very wellAutomatically Attach Current Timestamp to File Name – Haroon Shafiq
Not a code sample, but a handy good ole’ batch file. Remember them?
Alt+InsertJean-Paul S. Boodhoo’s Blog – Updates to improve readability of tests using mocks
Jean-Paul’s code is slowly getting to 100% readability. I really dig methods likeshould_tell_the_log_4_net_initialization_command_, but find it another story to apply this in my own coding
to_runFinding Design Smells In Non-Design Related Places – Derick Bailey
‘ This is an exercise that gets the customer to think about the different types of behaviors that certain roles and personas can perform in their software ‘Autocomplete box accessing a webservice walk-through – Ruurd Boeke
‘ The autocomplete box is a control that will popup a combobox based on what the user is typing. You see a lot of these on the web, and for good reason: they really help make your enduser more productive! ‘LinkedIn: Application Directory
Just to show that Microsoft is not the only one coming up with new stuff this week. Amit Agarwal has more background informationC# 4.0 New Features Part 1.1 – dynamic keyword second look – Justin Etheredge
OK, ok, if I ignore PDC too much, there’s nothing to blog this week
so here goes C# 4.0
‘ People using computers should be in control of giving out information about themselves, just as they are in the physical world ‘
Trimmed down set of lawsMicrosoft PDC 2008: Day 1 Wrap-Up – Alvin Ashcraft
Alvin’s recaom so you can still keep up with PDCTerminating a fluent interface – Alkampfer
‘ (…) the error detail contains all the field that does not match as well as detailed information. With this little helper I can write concise assertion on database data ‘Gmail Modes – Google Operating System Blog
‘ If you can’t access Gmail, try some of these URLs (…) ‘Review: Personal Development for Smart People – Thursday Bram
‘ This month, Pavlina’s book “Personal Development for Smart People” hit shelves ‘Simple Ping Utility with GUI – Mladen Jankovic
Announcing CodeRush Xpress for C# – Mark Miller
Free stuff! ‘ Developer Express and Microsoft are proud to announce a new version of CodeRush licensed exclusively for C# developers working in Visual Studio ‘Book Review: Microsoft Visual Studio Tips (Awesome Book) – Rhonda Tipton
Sara Ford’s new book, taking her Did you know… Visual Studio “tips of the day”Encodo C# Handbook – MSDN
‘ This document covers many aspects of programming with C#, from naming, structural and formatting conventions to best practices for using existing and developing new code ‘Collecting Errors – Mo Khan
‘ I lean towards the idea of not allowing your objects to enter an invalid state. So far the easiest approach I have found to do this is to raise meaningful exceptions in the domain to ensure this ‘Working With Agile Methods (Scrum, XP, Lean) – Travis Birch
‘ Asking meaningful questions, therefore, is an essential aspect of learning together, and nothing is a more powerful contributor to the success of an organization than a team that learns as a team ‘
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