LINKBLOG for November 24, 2008
Nov 24th, 2008 by AZuidhof
MVC Storefront: Episode 25 Preview – Rob Conery
For those still capably of keeping up with Rob’s enourmous series implementing a webstore using ASP.NET MVC. Really interesting as he has been drinking the DDD kool aid recentlyHow to clean up a folder tree with NAnt – Simone Chiaretta
‘ If you want to redistribute the source of a Visual Studio project you cannot just zip the folder tree because otherwise the archive will contain lots of useless files and folders ‘TFS 2008 (Team Build) Reference Desksheet… – Greg Duncan
‘ Tons of TeamBuild Properties, one little sheet… ‘Can You Really Rent a Coder? – Jett Atwood
Today I completely agree with Jeff’s feelings towards sites like RentaCoder, where you work for maybe $5/hour (need a $500 Ebay clone, anyone?). Outsourcing does not work! Having to manage the programmers to do what you need will probably cost you more than even coding it yourself.Don’t worry about how valuable it will be, just tell me how much it costs? – Jason Yip
Austin and Kaizenconf Part 2 – Peter Eysermans
‘ Being a huge fan of ASP.NET MVC, I couldn’t miss the opportunity to see guys that are much smarter than I am show off how they use the MVC framework ‘Populating Entities From Stored Procedures With NHibernate – Davy Brion
‘ (…) how to get the data returned by the stored procedure into the entities without actually having to write the code ourselves ‘Validation Scopes: Draft – Paul Stovell
On extending WPF builtin validationThe Devil’s manual for IT Managers: Part 5. Looking busy – Phil Factor
‘ Spend your time at a PC. The PC is a wonderful invention because it is almost impossible to detect whether the user is doing productive work or not ‘ Whoa. No way that people would pull tricks like that. Or wouldn’t they?The 12 Best Questions for Team Members – Jurgen Appelo
‘ In order to get a feel of your team’s motivation, you would do well to use these questions as the basis for an in-depth conversation ‘Book review: Peopleware – Luis Abreu
A groundbreaking book, still relevant after all those years. Found it absolutely refreshing when I read a a couple years ago. If you still only know it from word of mouth I recommend that you get yourself a copy of Peopleware today!My First Agile Project Part 13: Reflecting on The Decline of Agile – Matt Grommes
‘ The point of Agile is to help teams. If a team is having problems, the point should be to help them, not to make Agile look good. If parts of Agile or Scrum are helping, great. If something isn’t going to make a team’s life better, it should be left behind ‘Considerations For Using PostSharp – Mike Nichols
‘ I recently started using PostSharp for implementing AOP into my current project. It’s a great project and really simplifies some specifications we have that could have been cumbersome ‘.NET – Some Common Operations using LINQ To XML – Part III – Suprotim Agarwal
With LINQ so much has improved, that messy code that handles XML files is just one of those things that can be set next to the door*** Don’t Be Afraid of Easy – Justin Etheredge
‘ (…) it isn’t going to be all ponies and gumdrops, you will have to put some serious effort into finding patterns and leveraging these tools effectively. But once you do, you will never look back. Just as our most of our friends in construction would never dream of going back and hand chiseling a piece of stone ‘
My poiny exactly! In our business we’re still growing up, and probably haven’t even become teenagers yet. As compared to our parents construction and “real”architecture (with buildings and stuff)LINQ Reference Documentation – Charlie Calvert
JQuery Hover Fading on Mouse Over and Mouse Out Without Images – Thomas Williams
‘ It’s a testament to the robustness and flexibility of JQuery that I could do this in so little code, with so little knowledge ‘ jQuery is really the first on my Technical Todo list. Now how to finish the other list first…Quit Putting Your Solution In My Feature Request! – Max Pool
‘ A timeless process anti-pattern is when customers create a feature request and completely neglect to frame it in the phrase of a problem, rather they fill in what they perceive to be the solution ‘ Nasty users. But really, what Max proposes too, is that developers at least have to have a bit of domain knowledge. For more ways to get out of this requirements gathering nightmare, read on…
‘ We added our Application Architecture Diagrams (Visios) to our Application Architecture Knowledge Base (KB) on CodePlex ‘Distributed Teams – Jeremy Jarrell
‘ Building a distributed team allows you to choose the best and the brightest from anywhere in the world, without you having to worry about all of the baggage ‘Detecting Session Timeouts using a ASP.Net MVC Action Filter – Tyrone Davis
Back to basics: good source control check-in habits – Richard Dingwall
‘ The other day at work I went over a few good source control habits (TFS-centric) for new developers, and why they’re worth doing. Here are some tips: ‘Reflector.Snippy Addin – Jason Haley
Jason converted a helper utility that Jon Skeet created for C# in Depth and conveniently converted it into a Reflector addin5 Tips For Vetting a Business Partner – Aruni Gunasegaram
Finding the right business partner is probably the most important business decision you can make. Do it wrong and life is miserable. Do it right and the whole is greater than the sum of its partsHow Much is Spam Costing You? – Zee M Kane
Give the number of employees, spams / day and and average salary, and you know how much spam costs your company? Not so, these numbers don’t say anything, IMHO. It too simplistic: spam is just a side effect of the information highway (remember that one?). A side effect that has to be fought with all means though; but spammers will always find a way to thwart every of your efforts. Just imagine that you can remove spam by just revoking internet/email access for all employees, and you realize this is just not feasibleBe-A-Magpie Is PayPerPost For Twitter – Michael Arrington
All I want to say is that if I see ads starting to show up in your twitter feed, no problem: I’ll just unsubsribeDepend Upon Abstractions – reiteration – Sean Feldman
‘ I (…) realized that the core “Depend upon abstraction. Do not depend upon concretions.” principle is underused by myself ‘Emergent Chaos: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? – Adam Shostack
‘ It turns out that for some things, the watchmen watch each other ‘
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