LINKBLOG for December 10, 2008
Dec 10th, 2008 by AZuidhof
SubSonic 3: Alpha Is Ready – Rob Conery
JP’s Daily Dose Of Inspiration – #4 – Jean-Paul Boodhoo
cool story!Real life: Automation and teaching your kids – Tim Stall
On the resemblance between automation and your kidsIT Industry Revolutionised By Labour Saving Device – Leon Bambrick
‘ The ’self-clicking’ “next” button is set to revolutionize how computer users ‘Get Things Done’ — but a wave of fear is sweeping an industry facing wide spread redundancy ‘
World, watch out!Blogging Till Death Do Us Part – Zee M Kane
Will you ever stop! Err, well, just gimme 5 minutes, OK?Consenting Adults – Oren Eini
To break or not to break your public contracts / API’s, that’s the question. And makes for some good comments on Oren’s postAn Early Start – Christopher Bennage
‘ I’ve been kicking around ideas for teaching her how to program for a couple of years actually ‘ If Christopher can get *his 6 1/2 year old daughter to program using this cool Small Basic IDE, so can I my 6 1/2 year old son. Or at least, I’m going to try! He’s quite the creative person, and already able to read just a little, so it will be an interesting thing to see if this is possibleSilverlight controls toolkit december released – Ruurd Boeke
IFileSystem Dependency Inversion Part 3 – Steve Smith
Designing reusable solutions: Here’s what to keep in mind – Rick Freedman
‘ One of the holy grails of the consulting business is the reusable solution. You know ‘build once and sell many, especially if you can build the first version on the customer’s dime ‘Hooking into the world wide web – Kees Dijk
Lots of resources for starting architects and developers (flattered to see my little linkblog mentioned b.t.w., thanks Kees!)Design and Testability – Jeremy D. Miller
‘ (…) we can use Testability within design techniques like Test Driven Development and/or Behavioral Driven Development to inform and help guide our design decisions ‘Rhino.Security – AddPermissionsToQuery – Bart Reyserhove
Amnesia – Joel Spolsky
‘ We have a theory, here, that this is a bad idea. Using timesheets as a performance metric can lead to only one thing: bad data in timesheets ‘SharpSessionCacheManager: What’s in your Cache? – Mohammad Azam
‘ What would you do if you want to purge an item from the cache? The most common solution is to restart the application by altering the web.config ‘
since this has it’s obvious side effects, Mohammad has another solutionHire the Best – Planning – Keyvan Nayyeri
Hiring people for your team depends on the role they have. Keyvan explains what to look at in this regardTDD: One test at a time – Mark Needham
Scaling Scrum Without the Scrum of Scrums – Chris Sims
‘ The type of information that individual developers need to know is unlikely to get transmitted up and down a tree effectively ‘
‘ Code coverage is a useful tool, but not quite as useful as it might first seem. The fundamental problem with code coverage (…) is that it does not measure meaningful execution ‘Your Web 2.0 App is a Security Threat – Sarah Perez
Or is it? IMHO companies that ruthlessly exclude everything web2.0 like (and this review suggests there are already smart tools that will do this for your IT department) it shooting itself in the foot in the end. The winners will be the ones making a smart tradeoff instead of just reenforcing the gates and keeping them totally closed
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