LINKBLOG for November 17, 2008
Nov 17th, 2008 by AZuidhof
XML Documentation File For Your .Net Project - It’s Important - Shahar Y
A reminder to have those XML doc files created for your projectDrinking from the Fire Hose – How to Stay Informed Without Drowning - Dana Coffey
Dana teaches you how to be social++ without getting crazyPTOM: The Decorator Pattern - Sean Chambers
Pattern time, Sean explains this one clearly: ‘ As you can see the Decorator Pattern is a powerful, easy to use/implement, flexible design pattern that should be in everyones arsenal ‘Cuyahoga - Oren Eini
Ayende/Oren recommends… ‘ Now I suggest people should look at this as a great sample app in general, not just for NHibernate patterns ‘Being Joe the Software Plumber - Nick Maiorano
Single Letter Variable Names Still Considered Harmful - K. Scott Allen
‘ For the time being I’m going to avoid one letter variable names in all but the simplest lambda expressions ‘SVN-Monitor – Better, Faster, Stronger - Adrian Aisemberg
21 Extensions to Make Firefox Work For You - Zee M Kane
Seeing that I really missed a couple cool new extensions, it’s time for some procrastination!The 3 Musketeers: - Model, View and Controller using ASP.NET MVC – Part 2 - Shivprasad Koirala
Be Heard. Speak Plainly - Dustin Wax
‘ (…) the gibberish that many business people write and speak, leveraging their synergistic solution platforms in order to maximize the extraction of secondary revenues in the blah blah blah ‘Scared Of Technology? You’re Old! - Sarah Perez
‘ Apparently, growing up digital doesn’t just mean being used to technology - it means not being scared of it when things go wrong, either ‘WWD Roundup: Surviving the Coming Shakeout - Mike Gunderloy
10 Steps to Take Action and Eliminate Bureaucracy - Leo Babauta
Focus on action, not on bureaucracyRendering A Single View Using Multiple ViewEngines - Phil Haack
‘ One of the relatively obscure features of ASP.NET view rendering is that you can render a single view using multiple view engines ‘Thoughts on the Decline and Fall of Agile - Jeremy D. Miller
James Shore has really stirred things up in the Agile world with his piece on the demise of Agile as a methodologyUpdate on Silverlight 2 - and a glimpse of Silverlight 3 - Scot Guthrie
The marketing machine keeps on spinningThe 2nd Law of Software Development - Jurgen Appelo
Empowering people and finding the right balance between total ordering and complete chaos in the organizationCompiler Enforced Disposal? - Davy Brion
‘ I don’t know about you guys, but the thought of Base Class Library developers not being sure on when Dispose should be called is something that makes me quite uncomfortable ‘What Does that .NET Namespace Mean: System.* and Microsoft.* - Brad Abrams
Brad asks for your input on the difference between these root namespaces. Lot’s of people already chiming in. One of the scenario’s is “putting stuff in System.* or Microsoft.* doesn’t matter at all”, which worries me a bit: making this distinction assumes that some thought has been put in to the underlying reasons why. One would hope that it *does* matterA Compilation of Euphemisms for Layoffs - Bob Sutton
Showing all the ways managers try to avoid coming to the point. What about “fitness plan” (!?)Weekend Project: Make Your Own Custom Gummy Candies - Jason Fitzpatrick
Might be dangerous to report this just after the weekend, but I trust you guys have enough responsibility not to dive into jelly stuff immediatelyRepetitive Calls to Find the Same Element Using document.getElementById and Performance - Mohammad Azam
‘ As, you can see that moving the value of the TextBox into a variable and then referring the variable is little faster then searching for the element in the complete DOM tree ‘Chain of Responsibility Using Castle Windsor and a First Experience With StructureMap - Part 1 - Jan van Ryswyck
” I’m using Castle Windsor to chain together the different processors in the particular order that I want ‘
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