LINKBLOG for November 7, 2008
Nov 7th, 2008 by AZuidhof
Sessions from PDC2008 now available! – Brian di Croce
For those who missed PDCThere’s nothing worse… – Jeremy D. Miller
‘ Leaving work without solving the issue just leaves a very sour taste in my mouth ‘
We’ve all gone through such things, haven’t we?Decoupling Your Classes – Mike Hall
Mike decouples his all too coupled classes, throwing in a design pattern here and there (well, here, not there)
‘ Don’t you hate it when you go back to some old code and then just want to vomit? I had an experience like that recently ‘Solving Problems with TDD – Christopher Bennage
‘ This is one of those posts where you throw up some code and hope you’re doing it right (if I’m not, do tell) ‘Application Architecture and the Agile Architecture Method – Ade Miller
Clearing the cache of a LINQ to SQL DataContext – Garry Shutler
The 90/10 rule of marketing a job – Seth Godin
So it’s 90-10 instead of 80-20 these days?WCF and http (gzip/deflate) compression and Silverlight – Ramon Smits
Becoming a ReSharper Samurai – Part 1 – DimeCasts.Net # 61
Man, I look like a walking ReSharper ad – should get a licence for free; hint, hintÂ
50 New Features of SQL Server 2008 – Microsoft .NET Support
Everything you always wanted to know about SQL Server 2008Simple Ways To Save Time With A Default Code Library – Thord Daniel Hedengren
Improved Google with Firefox – Mike Gunderloy
‘ there are some Firefox add-ons that can make using Google a much improved experience. Two in particular are worth looking at: CustomizeGoogle and GoogleResultsWalker ‘Lance Armstrong on Politics, Ego, and Twitter at Web 2.0 Summit – Rick Turoczy
Webcast with *that* Lance, who is an ” internet entrepreneur” these days – whatever that means in his casemTAIL Tracks Log File Changes – Jason Fitzpatrick
Small Windows tool based on the UNIX tail programBranding 101: How to Promote Your Blog Like the Big Guys Do – Leo Babauta
How to Compare / Test the Equality of two Queries in SQL Server with SQL – Troy DeMonbreun
‘ I often find the need to compare two different queries for equality in Microsoft SQL Server. By equality, I mean that the two queries return the same data ‘Agile Software Development – How Agile Are You? – Kelly Waters
Recent Readings of Interest – Mark Levison
Marks has an interesting set of Agile related posts, save for later reading…Three Great Reasons Why Even Lonely Developers Need Source Control – S Chipps
‘ As programmers, sometimes our brain writes checks our fingers can’t cash ‘ good quote! But Sara gives me a good kick to go and see why SubVersion does not work anymore on my machine.NET 4.0’s game-changing feature? Maybe contracts… – Jon Skeet
‘ the goodness of Design By Contract can be put into a library, then everyone can use it. Enter CodeContracts… ‘How Much Time Should You Spend Working Each Day? – Joel Falconer
‘ What sort of lifestyle were you interested in when you decided to do this? Was it so you could work less, or so you could work through the night instead of in the blistering sunlight hours? ‘Free addin to help make your Visual Studio fly (well a little at least) – Free CodeRush Xpress for C# Developers – Greg Duncan
Reflection Tips on Nested Classes: Use (+) plus instead of (.) dot with Assembly.GetType – Shahed Khan
Scriptable vs Visual? – Patrick Kua
‘ Most programs tend to follow two schools of philosophy in their design, one that I’m going to call ’scriptable’, the other, ‘visual’ ‘Reflections on KaizenConf – Chris Patterson
The Weekly Source Code 36 – PDC, BabySmash and Silverlight Charting – Scott Hanselman
Cloud Gazing with Silverlight – John Papa
John’s latest MSDN article ‘ answers some of the most common questions I get when I start talking about Silverlight 2 programs being used for data centric and service driven apps ‘
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SQL Server 2008 New Features at Microsoft .NET Support
http://msdotnetsupport.blogspot.com/2008/11/sql-server-2008-new-features.html
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