LINKBLOG for December 12, 2008
Dec 12th, 2008 by AZuidhof
(Sorry, last 11 links were removed, since they were inadvertently put in today’s edition, after already mentioned yesterday)
From where do you all get so much inspiration this week, is this the big burst before the holidays?
‘ Need applications to talk and share data? You can learn several formats and languages to get the job done, or you can use middleware to translate ‘
‘ January 1st looms, and the new year always holds the promise of a fresh start, another go-round and another try at the golden ring ‘
‘ Chasing the “what” can be a red herring. It’s living your “why” and “how” that helps you be your best and it’s where your inner strength comes from ‘
Keyvan did his research to find out how educated we are as a community
‘ the title to this post was a little misleading (…) but there have been studies (ok, may just suggestions) that you should NOT use the CodeBehind in a MVC application (for anything other than strongly typing your ViewData) ‘
shows some screenshots, so you get to see Oxite in action if you haven’t tried yourselves already
Internet Explorer and the Z-Index (or, how I wasted a whole 3 hours of my life) – Ethan ViziteiI’m just so happy that I can leave all that Z-indexy CSS stuff to front end designers and developers (until now at least)
‘ When you try to profile the default instance (usually “.\SQLEXPRESS”), you’ll discover that your user instance databases don’t show up in the database list and cannot be profiled ‘ If you never muddle with SQL Server Express, no problems. If you do, things are “just a little bit different”
‘ The genius of Steve Jobs however has always been that he sees beyond just another new product (though sometimes it seems like it takes him a while to realize it) ‘
‘ The Unit of Work (let’s call it UoW) is another common design pattern found in persistence frameworks, but it’s new to many .NET developers who are just starting to use LINQ to SQL or the Entity Framework as the “new ADO.NET” ‘
‘ Why are you running manual tests? Automate them. If you are running manual tests, that is the smell of technical debt. Technical debt, I say! Automate them ‘
‘ I really just wanted to populate the reader with a single row of data, then the Read() method should return false. Using Rhino.Mocks it was a piece of cake ‘
‘ Finding bugs in somebody else’s code is dead easy. Preventing them is next to impossible. Well, on second thought, scratch the “next to” part ‘
Well, in your own code too, probably
‘ (…) in honor of the impending machine rebuild that I will likely face soon, I thought I would create my own essential tool list to document my current thoughts on the matter ‘
‘ Last time we introduced setting up the configuration file. This time we will look at the basics of mapping ‘
‘ A distributed VCS lets you isolate your code, while in development, and merge it back when it is ready. Which is why more and more open source projects have started using it ‘
The best remark here being “let the debate begin” since certs have different value to different people
Google Chrome 1.0 Released – Alex ChituYou might know him from this cool presentation explaining Identity 2.0 a couple years back. Guess this means big things for Microsoft’s Identity strategy
As following a Twitter conversation can be quite haphazard, Rod set out to build an tool for this himself, the Agile way
VMWare is certainly a viable solution. The only disadvantage I see is that you have to keep up with multiple updates on multiple systems, which can be quite a hassle if you haven’t ruthlessle automated it
‘ In this interview, Bill discusses new features of the C# language, his views on ‘effective code’, and the future of C#. ‘
‘ I recently set up Hudson as the continuous integration server for FitNesse. I was impressed at how very very simple this was to do ‘
Video time
‘ (…) for anyone out there searching for any available combination of social with another word that might make a good name for a social media business, don’t worry. “Social” is not over yet ‘
thumbtack – A new link, bookmark, note, photo sharing, thing – Greg Duncan‘ A kind of fun little new site/service from Microsoft Live Labs to play with. A simple way to save and share web “stuff” ‘
‘ I recently saw a piece of code in a project that was throwing an exception that I did not understand ‘
code sample
‘ This post will show how to create a simple console application that executes tracking queries in Windows Workflow Foundation 3.0 ‘
Of course it doesn’t
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with a couple lines C#
How to host a Bug Hunting Party – Part II – J Rasmusson‘ Let me explain why having both outside developers and business trying to break your app is the best of both worlds ‘
‘ I’m working on a medium size project that eventually may blow into something larger, which given the current economy would be great ‘
MVC, NHibernate, DDD and more
‘ Should they abandon a relationship because the organization has a security problem? To answer this, we first need to look at the type of organization ‘
Jason always finds these interesting innovation topics, that I completely overlook!
Understand each others habits, relax, change chairs
An unexpected combination for sure, women and LEGO
Jurgen has a long series of Q&A with some wellknown people in our field. Since Scott is occupying well deserved space in my bookstore, for this time I’ll plug it! Not to say that the other “industry leaders” don’t deserve to be mentioned
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I am totally thrilled with the interview I found on the link named NET Fireside Chats – Bill Wagner on ‘More Effective C#’ – Alvin Ashcraft….I mean I didn’t know anything about the new features of
C#…that is until I heard what Bill said about it..:) Thx for providing the link.