LINKBLOG for November 6, 2008
Nov 6th, 2008 by AZuidhof
Train consulting clients to monitor their own systems – Susan Harkins
‘ You can’t possibly keep tabs on all the PCs in your consultancy network, so train users to monitor systems themselves ‘KaizenConf, MVC, and Internal DSLs, OH MY! – Chad Myers
Unity Application Block and Decorator Pattern – David Hayden
Donut Caching in ASP.NET MVC – Phil Haack
‘ With ASP.NET MVC, you can easily cache the output of an action by using the OutputCacheAttribute like so ‘ But…Using Active Directory to authenticate users to your ASP.NET Web Site – ‘Bartek’
Five Great Delicious Hacks, in Five Minutes, for Delicious’s 5th Birthday -Marshall Kirkpatrick
Writing Testable Code – SoftDevTube
video ‘ There is no secret to writing tests… … there are only secrets to writing testable code! ‘Innovation Notes: November 6, 2008 – Jason Haley
Jason’s innovation notes rock, pointing to several interesting posts like Working with an innovation consultant part 1 that I would never have found otherwise!How to keep track of ideas with a mind map – Simone Chiaretta
Simone needs to keep overview over a lot of stuff, and mindmapping tools are a handy aid to achieve thisOn Misusing ORMs – Abhijit Nadgouda
‘ I do not think ORMs are there to shield the programmer from DBs, they are there to help you extend your object modelling in to the relational domain ‘ Abhijit has a data centric approach to OR mapping toolsGmail Tip: Search for Conversation Starters in Gmail – Jackson West
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EasyPitchEngine: Social Media Changes the Way We Do PR – Aliza Sherman
The social revolution also changes the way companies do their marketingConvert docx and other Office 2007 files to HTML with Gmail – Amit Agarwal
‘ You need no hacks to read those Word 2007 files (docx) files without Office 2007 ‘Why Microsoft may be in the lead again – Rupert Meindl
‘ On this years PDC Microsoft has shown several interesting products and projects which maybe will give them a step or two in advance to the Java application stack (…) ‘Watermarked TextBox in Windows Forms on .NET – David Vidmar
‘ I’m glad I googled before I started coding. It turns out, the feature is only SendMessage away ‘How (or how not) to do a presentation – Adam Goucher
A series of tipsA custom publish/subscriber appender for log4net – Alkampfer
‘ Logging is one of the most important part of an application, the ability to detect cause of failures or malfunctions from the log is invaluable, but generating good logs is not easy ‘Code contracts are here! – Luis Abreu
‘ Ok, I know I’ve asked for design by contract on C# and that didn’t made it into C# 4.0. However, I’ve just discovered something even better (…) ‘U.S. Court Rules that Hashing = Searching – Bruce Schneier
‘ Really interesting post by Orin Kerr on whether, by taking hash values of someone’s hard drive, the police conducted a “search” ‘Where is your identity more likely to be stolen? – Kim Cameron
Invalid length for a Base-64 char array – Carlo C
Exercise Caution When Using Floating Point Numbers – Tim Barcz
These floats and doubles can really bite you. Read the comments for additional explanationZones of Quality – Oren Eini
Oren applies a wellknown principle here, which I’d like to extend to “first make it work, then add business value, then make it work”
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