LINKBLOG for November 25, 2008
Nov 25th, 2008 by AZuidhof
Scala basics: What is Scala? – ‘Daan’
Not a Production Quality Software – Oren Eini
‘ A while ago I worked at a bank, doing stuff there, and I was exposed to their internal IT structure. As a result of that experience, I decided that I will never put any money in that bank ‘PTOM: Bend 3rd Party Libraries to Your Will With the Adapter Pattern – John Teague
You Weren’t Meant to Have a Boss, But It Helps… – Jurgen Appelo
Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo’s Blog – Slightly Different Way To Write Unit Tests
slightly?
Online Machine Learning Testing == Extreme Testing – Alek Icev
Code Contracts – TDD in a DbC World – Matthew Podwysocki
Clarifying the Purpose of Iteration Planning – Mike Cohn
Random quotes that could apply to development – Tim Stall
2009 Tips for Big Web Companies – Alex Iskold
The big 5: Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Ebay, Yahoo.NET systems need software architecture too – Simon Brown
RenderPartial vs RenderAction – Derik Whittaker
Text on a Path in Silverlight – Charles Petzold
ORM Is NOT Inherently Evil – Davy Brion
‘ So, for those who think that ORM’s can never work ‘right’, i have only one question: are you absolutely sure you know what you’re talking about? ‘Refresh Your Google Search Skills In 5 Minutes – Amit Agarwal
Looking back at MicrosoftPDC.com (from the inside) – Jon Galloway
If you’re working this week, you’re smart (Vacation strategy part 2) – Scott Berkun
Getting started with Automated White box Testing (and Pex) – Jonathan de Halleux, Nikolai Tillmann
‘ Pex is a new tool that helps in understanding the behavior of .NET code, debugging issues and in creating a test suite that covers all corner cases — fully automatically ‘Typemock Isolator for SharePoint – Dennis van der Stelt
Not a combination I would think of, Typemock and Sharepoint. But it’s there, and Dennis thinks it’s cool
Here’s Roy Osherove’s announcement by the wayDatabaseThaw – Martin Fowler
How to Change the World: Ten Tiny Apps That I’m Thankful For – Guy Kawasaki
What To Do When Your Work is Stolen Online – Celine Roque
Team Build Target Map – Accentient Blog
‘ (…) the Microsoft® Build Engine: Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build. This book is an absolute must for anyone who is creating and customizing build definitions in Team Foundation Build ‘Ways to distinguish yourself #199 – Exit gracefully – Rajesh Setty
‘ You are smart – so you make the choice! ‘Eric Schmidt on Management at Google- John Hunter
webcastSleep: Napping Boosts Sophisticated Memory, Study Shows – Gina Trapani
No reason anymore *not* to sleep during the day, it will only do you goodAgile and Project Management – Again – Glen Alleman
IronRuby for the Newbie
Denormalized Databases: A better example – Scott Selikoff
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