LINKBLOG for October 30, 2008
Oct 30th, 2008 by AZuidhof
Wisdom From Steve Jobs: The Importance of Killing Good Ideas – Bob Sutton
Sounds counterintuitive, but it may not. Reflect on this post for a while… ‘ The idea here is that if no one is complaining about this problem, then there aren’t enough being killed ‘*** Self-printing Game of Life in C# – Igor Ostrovsky
Not just C# code that does a GOL, but code that you run from a commandline that replicates itself. Nice stuffThe road to passing the Joel Test – Stacy Vicknair
Wow, the good old Joel Test! It’s like the Ten Commandments, but for software developmentPasswordTextBox – Security Briefs – Keith Brown
Keith’s implementation of an ASP.NET TextBox that *does* keep track of a formerly typed password – in a safe way and without the additional hassle other ways would takeNHibernate: Identity columns that are not the primary key – Bil Simser
Start Development with Community Server REST API – Keyvan Nayyeri
.NET – Getting Ready for .NET 3.5 and LINQ – Exploring C# 3.0 – Part I – Dot Net Curry
How refreshing in this week that’s resonating with 4.0 (and I’m really serious here: I mean, how many of us have just recently – or not even- started with C# 3.0 and Framework 3.5)Roll Your Own IoC Container Screencast – Jeremy Jarrell
ASP.NET MVC Has Changed My Life – Nick Berardi
How Not to Use a Lawyer – A Personal Case Study (Plus: Protocol Marketing correction) – Tim Ferriss
*** Agile Adoption Antipattern: We’re Special – Scott Ambler
Good one! ‘ An organization suffers from this agile adoption anti-pattern when they start giving domain-based or technology-based excuses for why they can’t become more agile ‘
And apart from this being an excuse not doing agile, companies so often think their supposed specialness requires them to invent all kinds of wheels over and over again. Just stop it and face the truth. Or hire that expensive consultant to tell you this, if you’re not up to it yourselfAre CIO’s Indifferent Towards Quality Software – Chris Spagnuolo
According to some research, the answer is yes. Which is shocking IMHO (and in Chris’s opinion too)The Skein Hash Function – Bruce Schneier
Since the SHA hashing tends to become to weak in the near future, it must be replaced by a new one, to be decided by holding a competition. This is the contribution of Bruce and his team. Interesting to see how such a competition is taking placeCommunicating effectively with remote IT consulting clients – Chip Camden
Chip has good tips for those of us working remotely and wishing to keep a good relation with our clientsUI Object Connector Implementation of Mediator Pattern – Shivprasad Koirala
jQuery Article and Thoughts – Karl Seguin
While the code sample is not that impressive, it is a good note-to-self to root out all that node fiddling withSelectSingleNodespagetti code from our codebaseMicrosoft PDC 2008: Day 2 Wrap-Up – Alvin Ashcraft
Day 2 of the PDC was all ablout Windows 7, Office 14, Live Services, Visual Studio 2010.NET Framework 4 Poster – Brad Abrams
Spacy poster, available in PDF, and a zoomable/clickable DeepZoom version (Silverlight required of course; go ahead and grab the latest verison if you don’t already have it
‘ My motivation was to see if it was worth switching from the .NET framework hash table implementations to some other ones ‘The Problem With URLs – Jeff Atwood
‘ URLs are simple things. Or so you’d think. Let’s say you wanted to detect an URL in a block of text and convert it into a bona fide hyperlink. No problem, right? ‘I Have a Path.Combine, But How About a Url.Combine? – Mike Hall
Mike, fiddling with URL’s just like Jeff above, has a code sample combining Url.TryCreate and Path.Combine to something pretty useful
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