LINKBLOG for December 4, 2008
Dec 4th, 2008 by AZuidhof
Balsamiq – quick (and dirty) UI mockups – David Vidmar
Professionalism And Thermodynamics – Derick Bailey
‘ For the last month or so, I’ve been having a serious problem with the apparent lack of professionalism in the software development industry as a whole ‘The need for speed – Wendy Friedlander
‘ I say this a lot, but I love TDD. Besides the list of reasons about how it improves code or simplifies solutions, TDD is fast ‘Fluent NHibernate’s AutoPersistenceModel: I Love it! – Chris van de Steeg
‘ I checked out the latest version of Fluent NHibernate today and noticed the AutoPersistenceModel. I looked at the unit-tests to see what it’s supposed to do and I loved what I saw… ‘C# Design Patterns – An Overview – Geek Daily
‘ Over the next number of posts I am going to be exploring the world of design patterns. We’ll look at some of the most commonly used patterns and how they look in C# ‘Companies Who Use Social Media to Become Heroes – Dana Coffey
CoffeThe Weekly Source Code 28 – ASP.NET MVC Beta Obscurity – ModelState.IsValid is False because ModelBinder pulls values from RouteData – Scott Hanselman
Don’t Be Afraid of People Better Than You – Sara Chipps
‘ (…) it never sucks to learn new things. Things about yourself especially. We, as software developers, can have egos as big as all out of doors. A little humbling ever so often can’t hurt ‘Isolation frameworks – lessons from the wild – Roy Osherove
The book writing process – Simone Chiaretta
Simone and Keyvan Nayyeri both blog about the book they’re writing togetherConfused by WEP, WPA, TKIP, AES & Other Wireless Security Acronyms? – Darknet
Web Dev .NET: 20 People .NET Developers Should Follow on Twitter
‘ I have been tweeting for quite some time now and I have found it to be a very interesting way to stay top of the technical pulse of .NET, jQuery, and numerous other technologies and tools ‘
Btw, Jurgen has even more developer reccomendations!
Warning! You risk nightmares if you click!
via Twitter / Keyvan Nayyeri10 Signs You’re a Productivity Junkie – Jonathan Mead
The Fat Controller – Ian Cooper
‘ (…) we are building a MVC web application. As a result of that experience I wanted to talk about one of the anti-patterns we find ourselves encountering ‘Seven Principles of Lean Software Development – P Bbielicki
*** What It Takes To Be A Great Technical Lead – Davy Brion
‘ No matter how good you may be, if you can’t transfer that knowledge and those skills, you’re not doing a good job as a technical lead ‘
Laely Davy is churning out quality posts on a daily basis…Panic mode – Michael Stal
‘ If you look at software development projects, you’ll often find the same issues. As soon as deadlines are getting delayed or dropped, participants are increasingly starting to get nervous ‘Mo Khan: My Blog! – Look Ma! Real Proxies…
‘ I took some time today to pull down the source code for SvnBridge today, and man, I was blown away ‘The Startup Success Podcast: Show #7: Joel Spolsky, part 1
Wanna hear good old Joel be interviewed about his latest adventure Stack OverflowCreating Temporary Passwords – Bring in da’ Func<T> – Tim Barcz
Set Operations in the Unix Shell Simplified – Peteris Krumins
Unix (well, Linux to be exact) was a long time ago for me. Still it attracts because of the wealth of utilities available out of the box, and the underlying prniciple: do one thing only, and do it wellCalling Remote ASP.NET Web Services from JQuery – Jason
Beware the Hero
Nice real life story abour a here attitude getting out of hand
‘ By taking so much on his own shoulders, Fred was doing something Ken Schwaber cautioned me about when I took the Certified Scrum Master class: he was being responsible to the point of irresponsibility ‘Working Around Entity Framework’s Large Data Model Issues – Jonathan Allen
Jan refers to a site that will analyze your blog, and give an indication about what kind of personality you are. Me? I’m a Guardian type, whatever that means. At least I like the ‘organised and efficient’ characterization
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