LINKBLOG for November 16, 2008
Nov 16th, 2008 by AZuidhof
The fallacy of IRepository – Oren Eini
Controlling authentication with the WF 3.5 SendActivity – Jon Flanders
Book Review: Essential WCF For .NET 3.5 – Jim Holmes
‘ This book’s very well written and does a great job of explaining a lot of the features around WCF. (…) right off the bat they do a solid job of showing a service hosted entirely in code, then do a comparable service hosted in IIS ‘Common Interfaces for Tool Families – Colin Ramsay
‘ What I’d like to see is a community effort to publish an ILogger interface to which various logging libraries can adhere, and an IContainer interface for IoC libraries, and other interfaces for various tool families which have enough common features ‘Software [In]security: Web Applications and Software Security – Gary McGraw
‘ Is Web application security commanding too much attention at the expense of other security issues? ‘Keeping those users in line – Ethan Vizitei
‘ Users are fickle, impatient, self-important, cantankerous, destructive monsters who will rape your software if you give them the chance ‘ … to be exact, from *our* position as developers who LOVE our product, not in the literal senseDamn it feels good to be a gangsta – Lee Brandt
‘ We complain about work, bills, co-workers and spouses and sometimes forget to look at how awesome our lives really are ‘How to close a multi-threaded .NET Windows Forms application and prevent the ObjectDisposedException from getting thrown – N Humbad
Your Favorite NP-Complete Cheat – Jeff Atwood
Not being much of mathematicion, Jeff bluffs his way into science ‘ What do expert programmers do when faced by an intractable problem? They cheat. And so should you! Indeed, some of the modern approximations for the Travelling Salesman Problem are remarkably effective ‘Lean and Kanban for Software Developers – John Hunter
‘ Time-boxing allows us to employ a very powerful aspect of Kanban. The cards in each column represent capacity for each stage of the value stream ‘John Shook on pull-based authority – Jason Yip
‘ I’ve encountered a common perception, even amongst people in the Agile or Lean community, that positional authority is required in order to change anything ‘
Jason points to a very interesting article, claiming that you should take leadership as required, creating it on-the-fly, so to speakDo you know enough? – Seth Godin
‘ If not, what are you doing about it?
If so, who do you think you’re kidding? ‘
Chew on this for a while todayDevHawk – IronPython and WPF Part 2: Loading XAML
‘ If we’re going to build a WPF app, we’re going to want to be able to load some XAML (…) Luckily, loading XAML is fairly easy ‘jQuery + Rails or NO? – William
‘ While I really like the way how unobstructive jQuery is, there are some issues I kinda feel its complicating things ‘Update for the ActiveRecord “Mock” Framework – Brian Genisio
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