LINKBLOG for December 8, 2008
Dec 8th, 2008 by AZuidhof
How to debug crashes and hangs – Kirill Osenkov
Cool, love those reproducible bugs that let VS crash… ‘ Viacheslav Ivanov reported an interesting crashing bug in our language service recently. Save all your work and then paste this code in a C# Console Application and change ‘object’ to ‘int’ ‘Integrating User Interface & Domain Specific Languages – Oren Eini
The only technology trend you need to be aware of – Mitch Denny
Humbling Post – Shawn Wildermuth
How To Guarantee That Your Software Will Suck – Justin Etheredge
‘ Building software is hard. Really hard. Really really really hard. Given the best possible situation, and the best possible developers, it is still quite likely that you will fail. Donald Knuth also came to this startling conclusion ‘ (read on…)Advices on partitioning code through .NET assemblies – Patrick Smacchia
‘ The tenet is: reduce the number of your .NET assemblies to the strict minimum. Having a single assembly is the ideal number. This is for example the case for Reflector or NHibernate that both come as a single assembly ‘Using Sealed in CSharp – Dave Bush
My First Agile Project Part 14: Did We Need A Coach? Does Anyone? – Matt Grommes
If you missed the first 13 parts (I did not!) you absolutely should catch up with them, in this entertaining and helpful hands on description of Matt’s first project don the Scrum/XP wayThe Essential Time-Saving Guide for Busy People – Leo Babauta
The part of “no” that I didn’t understand – Chip Camdem
‘ Whenever I get a “no,” I visualize each side of the non-agreement as two big blocks that can’t get past one another. To get to a “yes,” you have to figure out how to break one or both of those blocks down ‘Identity Maps – K. Scott Allen
‘ There are a couple of important patterns in play when you use a persistence framework ‘Silverlight in Visual Studio 2008 – Chris Eargle
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship – Adam Goucher
Should Branch History Be Kept After a Merge? – Dave Donaldson
‘ Initially, we thought of course we’d want to keep the branch history. Check-in history and revision comments are very important to us and that seemed like the obvious decision. However, we’re now having second thougts (…) ‘Starting with BDD vs. starting with TDD – Sean Chambers
Dynamic Linq and Expression Parsing in .NET as a hint of C# compiler extensibility – Rinat Abdullin
Unit testing in Silverlight part 2 – Maurice de Beijer
‘ The core of agile is shipping with confidence often enough to maintain feedback cycles ‘Conway’s Law – Kevin Seal
So What’s NHibernate Development Like? – Davy Brion
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