LINKBLOG for December 11, 2008
Dec 11th, 2008 by AZuidhof
Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects – Glen Alleman
8 Ways to Recession-Proof Your Programming Career – Rob Walling
Actively pursuing a couple of them already, blogging being one of them. Read the tips and spend some time digesting them. Don’t wait, act!The Feedburner to Google Domain Transition Foul Up – Phil Haack
The Case for an Agile Fringe – David Anderson
Useful statistics for web designers – Jon Hobbs-Smith
‘ As web designers we’re constantly having to make decisions on how to optimise websites while catering for as many users as possible ‘It’s Official: Visual Studio 2010 Will Ship with F# – Jonathan Allen
How to Motivate Developers – A three step framework – Frank Kelly
Audit – Bruce Schneier
‘ As the first digital president, Barack Obama is learning the hard way how difficult it can be to maintain privacy in the information age ‘How do you tame the many heads of the hydra? – Kyle Baley
‘ “That’s it. I’ve had enough looking at this code. You, Mr. Project Manager Person, tell the client that we have deemed the application unpalatable and that we are holding it ransom (…) ‘Account Sign-in: 8 Design Mistakes to Avoid – Jared Spool
Figuring out Business Value with Planning Poker – Peter Stevens
MSBuild Parsing – Chris Eargle
The Teleprompter Presentation Anti Pattern – Oren Eini
Creating IIS Applications with PowerShell – Dave Donaldson
‘ To help automate our functional testing, I need to use PowerShell to create the IIS application required to run Community Server on our build server ‘The Zen of Results Free E-Book – J.D. Meier
Script# – Literal feature… How did I miss this one? – Jay Kimble
C# Cache Helper Class – Ben Griswold
A new version of AntiXSS – Barry Dorrans
Bjarne Stroustrup on Educating Software Developers – James Maguire
C# Design Patterns – The Decorator Pattern – Geek Daily
The Myth of Discovery – Ted Neward
‘ It amazes me how insular and inward-facing the software industry is. And how the “agile” movement is reaping the benefits of a very simple characteristic ‘How Do I Say that Word In Different Languages – Amit Agarwal
Excel Formatting with Visitors, Specifications, and Composites – Jean-Paul Boodhoo
3 reasons why you should let Google host jQuery for you – Dave Ward
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If you’re doing this on a public facing* website, you are doing it wrong26 Ways To Know Your Software Development Project Is Doomed – Esther Schindler
‘ There’s always a moment when you realize that all is lost, that there is absolutely no way THIS project can be a success. Here’s a few signs that should suggest your project is headed for failure ‘
Oh, so many telltale signs here…Small workarounds: Visual Studio 2008 Tips & Tricks for Developers – Aashish
‘ This includes some shortcuts and some hidden features in Visual Studio 2008 which will increase your productivity ‘YouTube – SCRUM in Under 10 Minutes (HD)
quick paced video taking you through product backlog, scrum master, product owner and all other scrum terminologyTargeted Languages – Jay Fields
‘ Like it or not, we’re headed towards more targeted languages. It’s probably worth considering the implications sooner rather than later ‘Amazon.Com Addiction Continues Unabated… – Jon Paul Davies
Creating an extension module for .NET URL Rewriter and Reverse Proxy – Nick Berardi
Is DDD for me? – Luis Abreu
‘ So, is DDD for you? The truth is that you’re the only one that can answer this question, but don’t forget that the subset of principles now know as “DDD-lite” can (and should!) be applied to all good OO projects ‘What is the primary purpose of an ORM? – Scott Koon
‘ I asked the question on Twitter/Facebook “The primary purpose of an ORM is to decouple the domain model from the database schema. True || False? Discuss.” and got some interesting answers ‘Twittering build status from cc.net – Michael Eaton
‘ I’ve found that I’m definitely more careful before commit’s because the last thing I want is to see “build failed” come across on twitter ‘
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