LINKBLOG for November 19, 2008
Nov 20th, 2008 by AZuidhof
An easy and efficient way to improve .NET code performances – Patrick Smacchia
Implementing value objects – Sander Hoogendoorn
‘ A value object is a small and simple object, such as Isbn or Email that is meaningful to the customer domain, and is used for validation, often as type of properties of domain objects ‘Dynamic Linq expression generator – Alkampfer
Encouraging .NET Reflector Add-ins – Chris Massey
Interview with Jason Haley, fellow link bloggerMicrosoft Sues to Defend Visual Studio Users – Tim M
‘ This is scary, folks. If you use Microsoft Visual Studio to create web services, you could be subject to lawsuits for patent infringement ‘Etherpad Shows Google Docs How It’s Done – Michael Arrington
‘ This instantly became a must-use application for me. It makes phone calls a lot more productive – just open up a workspace and take notes together, in real time ‘Amazon Cloudfront: Here to Make Downloads Fast and Cheap – Zee M Kane
More clouds coming towards youOwn the Crowd With Better Speaking – Chris Brogan
The Art of Laying People Off – Guy Kawasaki
‘ I hope that you never have to lay off or fire people, but the reality is that you will as you advance in your career ‘Testing WCF Service Apps (Part 0 of 4) – Brian Genisio
Create Affinity Diagrams with Microsoft Sticky Sorter – Amit Agarwal
Wow, think I’m gonna try this one!The Visual Studio Tech Roadmap — Starring Visual Studio 2010 – Rico Mariani
Pushing the Limits of Windows: Virtual Memory – Mark Russinovich
Anecdotes – Joel Spolsky
‘ This review captures what’s been driving me crazy over the last year… an unbelievable proliferation of anecdotes disguised as science ‘Programmers are not typists first – Jimmy Bogard
It couldn’t be long before a rebuttal to Jeff’s most recent post showed upDigital Identity, Privacy, and the Internet’s Missing Identity Layer – Kim Cameron
Ah, so lots of folks were eluded into handing over their Twitter credentials, just because someone asked. And they did. I can’t believe someone would do something like that, actually. Every service that asks for credentials of another service should be a FAIL. I mean, how often do you read about some website storing passwords as cleartext. A lot if you’re on top of the news. It doesn’t apply when it’s the same company howeverf. But in that case, if they have set up things correctly, it wouldn’t be neccessary to ask for other service’s credentialsMy Unified Theory of Bugs – Misko Hevery
On bugs, the different types, and how unittesting is one of your friends to root them outArticle: The Limits of Code Optimization: a new Singleton Pattern Implementation – Jean-Jacques Dubray
Is IT work true engineering or just plumbing? – Bruce F. Webster
‘ And I mean no disrespect to plumbers for that comment. Many states require plumbers to be licensed, unlike software engineers ‘Useful Logparser scripts – Rakkimk
Logparser brings back memories from the past; good ones, mind you!
via Twitter / Elijah ManorMisconceptions with Test Driven Development – Mark Levison
‘ If we accept that TDD isn’t entirely sufficient for design, then the question becomes how much architecture is required and what would a good project designed with TDD look like? ‘Specialize in Something Relevant – Jay Fields
‘ business software developers seem to have created their own definition of generalist:
(…) I know how to do the simplest tasks with many different languages/tools, but I can not be considered competent with any of them ‘Doc Scrubber Removes Hidden Metadata from Your Word Docs – Adam Pash
Handy tool if you publish Word docs online, might want to clean them up first“Subsonic” for Services found: Subsonic 3 + ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria) – Jay Kimble
How to serialize Lambda Expressions – Onur Gumus
‘ Normally this wasn’t possible but I realized the MetaLinq project allows it ‘It’s a .NET Life – David Yancey
‘ I want to encourage all developers to really look into what Agile has to offer and then take it to your business and challenge them to implement Agile as your new methodology ‘
good article, via Twitter / Dana CoffeyDon’t get fooled again… – Seth Godin
‘ Online, rely on direct, personal interactions to be sure you’re seeing what you think you’re seeing. Trust, but verify ‘Thoughts on (J / Iron)Ruby – Björn Rochel
‘ The first 2.0 release includes the full source code tree and a bootable CD image. A Virtual PC file is also available in this release ‘Extension Methods, Fluent Interfaces, and the evils of API Pollution – Steve Bohlen
‘ I am going to propose a guideline for the use of C# 3.0 Extension Methods: Don’t Use Them to Rename Existing Functionality in an API Just Because You Don’t Like A Function’s Name ‘Barcode Decoding with the .NET Micro Framework – Jens Kühner
Encoding / decoding these new barcode formats. Nice stuff
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