LINKBLOG for November 22, 2008
Nov 23rd, 2008 by AZuidhof
Dude, Where’s My LINQ DML? – Bart de Smet
Overcommitted? Face the music and talk to your client – Chip Camden
‘ You use your most diligent combination of research, rock(et) science, and haruspicy to come up with your best estimate for the project ‘ And then dark clouds are gathering above your head because you messed up the estimates or whatever. What you do now? Chip tells youWhat’s A Good Plan Look Like? – Glen Alleman
Dependency Inversion for Dummies: Unity and StructureMap – Ben Hart
series on dependency injection, next installmentAdvantages of Using Class Diagram – Dave Bush
‘ If you haven’t broken out the class diagram recently, I suggest you give it a try ‘Back to Basics: Generics – Karl Seguin
‘ It can be hard to pick and choose what to learn and what can wait. Let me be straight up though: if you haven’t mastered generics yet, you’re starting to fall dangerously behind ‘If I Started Today – Chris Brogan
Chris describes what he would do, would he start today in his field, social mediaHow important is the problem of whether or not P=NP? – Leon Bambrick
Why On Earth Would A Developer Do This? – Davy Brion
‘ Do these people simply don’t care or do they genuinely not know how bad this is? If they don’t know, that’s truly sad ‘ IMHO a lot – and I mean really a lot – of developers I meet really don’t know. Smell a big divide hereAgile and innovation – J. B. Rainsberger
Practicing Agility in Application Architecture – Abel Avram
‘ Microsoft has published a How-To Design Using Agile Architecture guide under patterns & practices providing detailed guidelines to follow when architecting an application, the Agile way ‘I Am A Better Programmer Than You – Andrew Wulf
‘ Now that I have your blood boiling, the real point of the post is wondering how do you compare the skills and abilities of programmers? ‘Setting up Subversion on Windows Home Server – Ade Miller
ICollectionView explained – Marlon Grech
‘ ICollectionView is really a great tool especially when you are trying to separate the UI code from the business logic by using patterns such as M-V-VM ‘Implementing Methodologies – Oren Eini
‘ If your methodology assumes competence, and most of the methodologies that we (as in I and like minded people) would find favorable do assume competence, it is going to fail in the trenches ‘
Interesting observation!ADSdotNET – Access NTFS Alternate Data Streams from your managed languages without P/Invoke – Greg Duncan
Do not test private methods – Chad Myers
Any class, including test fixtures, that care about private methods on another object exhibit the “Inappropriate intimacy” code smell stenchThe Continuing Quest for DEATH of string-literals in my Code… – Steve Bohlen
‘ if we as developers can agree (…) that literal SQL strings are generally BAD, then I think we have to agree that literal HQL (hibernate-query-language) strings are generally BAD as well ‘lTop 10 Things You Can Do with a DVD – Kevin Purdy
Pair Programming – Marketing FAIL – Aaron Erickson
O yeah, know exactly how this feels. Asked “the question” once, only to be met with blank stares… Aaron offers great help: ‘ (…) before anyone in the software development business wants to come up with a great idea, they should run it by some people in marketing to see if the thing will fly ‘
Really, this is wonderful advice. Far too often we think that the amazing wizardly we’re pulling off is blowing the others away, but it isnt. You risk just getting alienated from the rest of your company when you stay on your big Cloud of TechMVC ModelBinder and Localization – Melvyn Harbour
‘ (…) the team [ASP.NET MVC team,ed.] are publishing the source code as they go along. This makes it very simple to dig into the framework when something slightly surprising is happening ‘Why I speak of Agile/Scrum and not XP – or Language matters – Mark Levison
These days it looks like it’s all about Scrum, the pragmatic version of agile. Agile practices, or even using the world agile, are they on their way out?Don’t Waste a Recession – Ed Cone
‘ Given the continued, rapid decrease in the cost of information technology, it is essential during a recession to search for new places to automate ‘ Those companies that act now, have a better chance of survival….
thanks Jason!
Beta has the coolest new features, so Gina likes it. And so does the majority of us who are concerned with software. But maybe not the other 98% of the world, they deserve software that just works…
This pictures me, if I watch 4 hrs a week, it’s a lot, probably even less. TV is mainly just a waste of time IMHO5 Tips for Better jQuery Code: jQuery, Tutorial – Marc Grabanski
‘ I’ve been coding using jQuery since shortly after it came out, and well — I’ve been using it almost every work day. Here is a few tips that have saved me time ‘
thanks Scott Koon!
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