LINKBLOG for November 12, 2008
Nov 12th, 2008 by AZuidhof
Remotely connecting to a Hyper-V virtual machine with networking disabled – Grant Holliday
"C:\Program Files\Hyper-V\vmconnect.exe" MyHyperVServer VS2010CTPThe Myth of Self-Organizing Teams : Jeffrey Palermo
‘ In order for a team to exist, it must have a mission, a purpose in life. This mission must be directed, and is probably what caused the team to form in the first place ‘Cloud Computing (and Azure) – Right for your site? – Jason Young
Fluent Interfaces and Flowcharts – K. Scott Allen
A Gem of a Lesson from Rails – Billy McCafferty
‘ For the past few months, I’ve gotten the privilege to develop a good sized, production Ruby on Rails application. I say privilege because it has shed light on many lessons for the way we develop in the Microsoft community ‘The Worst Software I’ve Ever Written – David Starr
‘ I have been stupid busy and am stacking up blogging topics like cordwood. Maybe it’s because of that guilt that I am about to tell you about the absolute worst piece of software I ever gave birth ‘
We need more war stories!Writing Tests to Catch Memory Leaks in .NET – Brian Genisio
Why So Many Overloads for StringBuilder’s Append? – Jason Bock
Once Again, the Long Tail Refuses to Be Buried – Mathew Ingram
‘ Contrary to what some might think, Chris Anderson didn’t invent the idea of the “long tail” ‘*** Jumping off the SharePoint Train – Maggie Longshore
Maggie worked on learning SharePoint, but jumped ship due to other more important topics for the moment. I can relate here, in the sense that I try to stay out of SharePoint a bit more deliberate, as it is such a huge overwhelming world of it’s own (Maggie talks about literally hundreds of SP bloggers alone!). I can only restate the question I asked earlier: Do you have time to learn everything?. My answer is a definite no, and it’s key to decide what we learn and what we consciously put aside, for the sake of staying sane
Review of this tool which is, IMHO, still unsurpassed in it’s ease of use and – above all – slick interface, in the range of .NET toolsHow to Do Many Projects (Part 4): Resource Planning – Jurgen Appelo
Jurgen gives his opinion on professional resource planning and concludes: ‘ Resource planning is not difficult. It just requires some discipline to do it right’ Read on for an interesting view, think it’s the first I see someone make a case for setting apart developer time for both self improvement and improvement of the company tool base and principlesMultiple threads to improve UX (User Experience) – Jay Kimble
‘ The idea (…) is this: if we could predict what the user will do next we could fire up a thread and attempt to pre-load the result into a cache before it is even requested (…) ‘The Landmine of Parsing HTML and Stripping HTML Comments – Phil Haack
Funny how something basic like parsing HTML is still such a tough job. Phil even created it into a challengeSubSonic and Projections – Ben Scheirman
(Mostly) praise for the new version of SubSonic ‘ With the most recent release of the new query API in SubSonic, we were given a lot of flexibility. This was much needed in our project because getting single results and collections off of a single entity is rarely sufficient for complex applications ‘
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