LINKBLOG for November 15, 2008
Nov 16th, 2008 by AZuidhof
Clean Code – A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship – Sean Feldman
Using PostgreSQL in your C# (.NET) application (An introduction) – Adrian Pasik
Early thoughts on MEntity – Alex Thissen
Stories Too Big – Vertical Slices – Steve Smith
‘ How Do You Break Up an Epic into Stories? ‘Giving IT consulting clients realistic estimations – Chip Camden
‘ The first rule of estimating time requirements for an IT consulting job is: Don’t do it ‘ Of course there is a slightly more subtle reasoning than this, as Chip wil tell youIn These Dark Times, We Turn To Lolcats For Comfort – Jason Kincaid
‘ Times are tough, but Pet Holdings, the company behind ICanHasCheezburger, isn’t complaining (…)’Growing your Career: Do at GUT Check – Jeremiah Owyang
Grow Your Network Before You Need Them (G)
Uncomfortable, Leads to Growth (U)
Tout Your Successes (T)7 Ways to Talk Your Way To the Top in a Down Market – Abigail Johnson
SoftMaker Office Is a Fast and Lightweight Office Suite – Adam Pash
If you want something more lightweight than MSOffice. Or OpenOffice for that matter (which is also consuming 315MB of my harddisk)Pressure and Performance – The CTO’s Dilemma – Abel Avram
webcast.NET Code Contracts and TDD Are Complementary – Matthew Podwysocki
Implementing the MVCA Pattern – The Controller – Payton Byrd
‘ (…) we will learn about the Controller classes and how they are used to centralize the business rules of the application ‘Testing is hard but debugging just sucks A$$ – Derik Whittaker
ASP.NET MVC In The Clouds – Phil Haack
XmlSerializerFactory caching issues and leaks – Daniel Cazzulino
‘ You’d think that after the serious leaks people was hitting with the XmlSerializer, the “new” (in .NET 2.0!!! … ) XmlSerializerFactory would do away with those ‘SEO starting guide for ASP.NET – Simone Chiaretta
‘ (…) the main point is:
have the full url (without the query’s parameters) of the page, the page title and the H1 all with the same keywords ‘
Good info if you’re interesting in SEO, especially with regard to ASP.NET. Simone has a couple more pointers you might want to check outLive Search API “Silk Road” – Scott Watermasysk
HighOnCoding Gets You High! – Mohammad Azam
‘ Check out www.HighOnCoding.com and get high in valuable information ‘It’s common sense, stupid: Software Developers In a Rush – Soon Hui
How I use multiple desktops to get things done – Eric Wendelin
Just use a bunch of virtual ones if you cannot afford of get more physical ones
‘ The advantage I see here is that I never have to think to get to any window, I can seamlessly move between exactly what I want all the time ‘The Decline and Fall of Agile – James Shore
James, being someone who wrote an infuential book on Agile, has enough explanations in this post ‘ eople look at agile methods as a chinese menu of practices, choose the few that look cool, and ditch the rest. Unfortunately, the parts they leave out are the parts that make Agile work ‘Sigh… Why Must Microsoft Keep Disappointing Me – Davy Brion
This is one thing I never understood: instead of the license scheme Microsoft has on it’s Windows OS’es, why didn’t they choose something like InstallShield’s scheme: the application checks on the local network (or wherever you want it to) if an app/os with the same key is already active: in that case it refuses to run. Much more fair toward us, the customersWhy is the maximum boot.ini delay 11 million seconds? – Raymond Chen
Trivia via Jason Haley So, Raymond is still putting out more blog posts on more or less weird Windows stuff than there are days, a quick look in his archives shows. And this since 2003!Shoulder Surfing a Malicious PDF Author – Didier Stevens
‘ I’ve been patiently waiting for a malicious PDF document with incremental updates to come my way. Thanks to Bojan, that day has finally arrived ‘
Intriguing stuff, I mean from a learner’s standpoint
via Bruce Schneier
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