LINKBLOG for October 31, 2008
Oct 31st, 2008 by AZuidhof
Making the Leap from Spectator to Newbie with Ruby on Rails – Russell Ball
Russell has been diving into RoR seriously over the last weeks. Has mostly likes, and some dislikes too. And got a complete new appreciation for the MVC wayRefactoring Service Dependencies to Separated Interface – Billy McCafferty
Careful explanation of making smelly code more testable and maintainable, but this always somes with a disclaimer: ‘ (…) care should be taken before the introduction of any design pattern to ensure that the pattern itself is “pulling its weight,” so to speak ‘Distributed Agile Development at Microsoft patterns & practices – Ade Miller
‘ As you might have noticed there have been slightly fewer blog posts in October. Why? ‘ The result is certainly worthwile!Bulk Data Operations With NHibernate’s Stateless Sessions – Davy Brion
Microsoft kills Linq to SQL – Oren Eini
‘ In a typical management speak post, the ADO.Net team has killed the Linq to SQL project. I think this is a mistake from Microsoft part ‘ I’m lacking a bit of time to further invest this, but you might spend some time reading up.NET – Some Common Operations using LINQ To XML – Part I – Suprotim Agarwal
Balsamiq Mockups: Deliberately Not Slick – Mike Gunderloy
Google Too Offers OpenID, But With A Twist – Abhijit Nadgouda
MVC Zen Garden – Leon Bambrick
Leon unleashes the combined power of the CSS Zen Garden and the ASP.NET MVC sample app
Authorization in ASP.Net MVC using XML Configuration – Jigar Desai
Creating a generic Linq to SQL ModelBinder for the ASP.NET MVC framework – Maarten Balliauw
Maarten continues his interesting series on MVC ModelBindersIs this a blog? – Scott Koon
Of course it is!FxCop Rule Recommendations – Travis Illig
Bend FxCop to your willing with excluding just a small set of superfluous rulesGoogle Now Indexes Scanned Documents – Jason Kincaid
Antiviral ‘Scareware’ Just One More Intruder -John Markoff
“I’ve got this message from Antivirus XP, what should I do?” My brother recently asked me. This article in NYT explains his situation. This fake antivirus application is actually a profitable business, if the information here is correctToString() or Convert.ToString(), that is the Question – Payton Byrd
Personally likestring result = myVariable.ToString() ?? (string)null);
?? being the null coalescing that returns a value, and if it’s null, returns the other. ymmv. I never used Convert.ToString() but it looks clean enough, though
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This is important stuff you should work a bit on ever now and then; if your credibility is worth something to youSam Spade – Network Investigation Tool for Windows – Darknet
Cool tool, certainly not for hackers onlyLeveraging Cecil to inject code into your Assemblies – DimeCasts.Net Details for # 59
‘ You will learn how to use Cecil (an assembly reader-writer from the Mono project) to inject common code implementations into an assembly ‘Read It Later Comes To Google Reader – Sarah Perez
Little tools that make me more productive, love them!
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