LINKBLOG for November 14, 2008
Nov 14th, 2008 by AZuidhof
On Failures Of Agile Projects – Abhijit Nadgouda
(…) usually the non-programming skillset gets overlooked and [as?, ed.] the root cause for failures ‘MVC troubleshooting: If the controller doesn’t have a controller factory… Tim Stall
6 Stupid Mistakes Companies Make with Their Online Communities – Esther Schindler
Troubles downloading public symbols? – Carlo C
Software Craftsmanship – Craig Bailey
Book review ‘ This has totally changed my outlook on software development. If you haven’t read it then you probably should ‘TextBoxFor(u => u.Name) – Unleash the power – Karl Seguin
‘ (…) he did a 3-hour workshop detailing the advanced features of the tool. If you weren’t there, sorry you missed it ‘
Except for this video embedded in Dave’s postBeing professional – pt. 3 – Pascal Van Cauwenberghe
part 3 in this series ‘ Acceptance criteria #3: A professional acts ethically according to values ‘Visual Studio Fail — How not to debug .NET exception handling – Shawn Poulson
Drilling down deep into the Visual Studio Debug menuThe Future of WebForms And ASP.NET MVC – Phil Haack
‘ I’ve heard a lot of concerns from people worried that the ASP.NET team will stop sparing resources and support for Web Forms in favor of ASP.NET MVC in the future ‘
Phil says no worries. Read on (…)RunFast – Dave Donaldson
‘ a free, simple tool that allows you to launch applications using customizable shortcut commands, known as aliases. It’s a perfect example of a simple tool that does it’s job and does it well ‘
Yeah, me likes this. UNIX rulez. Ehh, sorry ’bout that. Just kidding, reallyPattern Matching in C# – Andrew Matthews
Using Crowdsourcing for Expanding Localization of Products – Scott Hanselman
‘ How can we make English interfaces easier to use for non-English speakers who want to learn English? ‘
Scott explains how the MSDN team does thisStyling a Silverlight Twitter Application with Expression Blend 2 – Scott Guthrie
The Gu is at it again, this time convinvcing me that I *really* need to start spending some time with Expression Blend and become a better designer automagically. And don’t forget the cool video showing off how all the graphs in the blog post came to beStrongly typed links for ASP.NET MVC through the power of LINQ expressions – Garry Shutler
‘ Wouldn’t it be nice if you could have strongly typed links in your ASP.NET MVC views rather than a having to use floaty strings? ‘
So of course Gary set out to write some code: takingLINQ, generics and extension methods to create a helper class to do exactly thisNew ASP.NET Web Deployment Options in Visual Studio : Rachel Appel
‘ In VS 2010, we are going to see some major changes with deployment, including a new publishing pipeline and lots of features built right into the product ‘
From now on, wherever we see ‘new’ and ‘visual studio’ we need to make a mental note that this probably means VS2010 instead of 2008The Devil’s IT Manual: Part 4 – Initiating a project with a Strategy one-pager – Phil Factor
‘ A cross-functional team has been put in place to gain buy-in to the principle of forming a sub-committee to supervise the drafting of a straw-man by an Intern or Industrial Trainee ‘
uhh, OK. Will try this next weekBack to Basics: Reference Filing – Dustin Wax
Dustin knew exaclty how to file his papers in the way that David Allen (GTD guru) descibes it, until he got too much un-filable pile got too big: ‘ And thus my empire of paper fell ‘Reducing the Cost of Change – Oren Eini
How to call controllers in external assemblies in an ASP.NET MVC application – Simone Chiaretta
‘ This is useful if you have many controllers with the same name in different namespaces: by specifying the namespace in the route definition, you are limiting where the framework will look for the controller ‘Working with an innovation consultant part 2 – Jeffrey Phillips
‘ After working with a number of companies on innovation initiatives and projects, I’ve learned a lot about the needs for innovation and how to structure an innovation program or project ‘Terminology – xkcd
Yeah right. Of course the real underlying problem here is the US centric approach
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