LINKBLOG for December 19, 2008
Dec 19th, 2008 by AZuidhof
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*** Getting value out of your unit tests – Jimmy Bogard
‘ My first year or so of doing TDD produced exactly that, a mess. No insight into the what or why of my system’s behavior, but merely a retrospective look on what each individual class did ‘jTemplates with jQuery, AJAX and Json – Ben Griswold
Ben GriswoldUpdated version of the free Data Structures and Algorithms book available! – Granville Barnett
Cool stuff, now we’re having something to read for the Holidays…
via Alvin AshcraftOxite: Open eXchangable Informative Troubled Engine – Oren Eini
A lot of not really positive words have been said the last couple days about the code quality of Oxite> Oren – not being a difficult guy – now praises Microsoft in the figure of Rob Conery who is currently leading it’s refactoring efforts in making it a good sample applicationDid you know that today’s tip on msinfo32.exe ends the series? – Sara Ford
Sara, thanks for all the effort you put into this. We will miss your tips!ASP.NET MVC Design Gallery and Upcoming View Improvements with the ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate – Scott Guthrie
ALT.NET is the Opposition Party – Nate Kohari
‘ALT.NET is the opposition party. We’re just here to keep the “other side” (in this case, Microsoft and traditional .NET developers) honest ‘
I’d say there’s more to Alt.NET than only this, but it is among our objectives I guessHow I’m Currently Writing My BDD Style Tests – Part 1 – Jean-Paul Boodhoo
‘ In the ongoing goal of “Competing against yourself daily” I have changed many things about my coding style over this past year ‘Confusing activity with action – Seth Godin
‘ Is the online work you’re doing actually leading you where you want to go, or merely keeping you busy? ‘How IT consultants can benefit from partner programs – Rick Freedman
‘ By aligning yourself with recognized leaders in your IT consulting specialty area, you can leverage your partners’ credibility, increase market visibility, and gain access to resources; but there is a cost ‘Test Requirements, Don’t Test Code – Glen Alleman
‘ In fact, the very idea of testing code without a reference to a requirement is ridiculous ‘What is Microsoft up to with PHP? – Manuel Lemos
‘ Microsoft has been participating in several initiatives that benefit PHP. This post talks about such initiatives ‘
Crossing borders between two still completely separated countries, Microsoft and PHPTaking The Time for Software Design – Esther Schindler
‘ “Oh, good!” exclaimed our boss, Ivan. “Jan is thinking. If he’s still in the same position by the end of today, I know I’ll see some great code tomorrow.” ‘
If not taken to the extreme, that is looking outside the window for three weeks, some serious thought is absolutely necessary before we start implementingGetting Started with the Twitter API – Bob DuCharme
‘ Twitter’s API lets you read and write Twitter messages with minimal coding in nearly any programming language. In fact, you can use this Application Programming Interface without doing any programming ‘Why LINQ is better than SQL, Part 3: Query Composition – Daniel Pratt
This could be big. Sueetie is online! – Dave Burke
Coming in from multiple sources, ‘ Sueetie is a movement supporting the creation of Online Communities using best-in-class .NET Open Source Social Networking applications ‘Handling Double Clicks in Silverlight – Mike
Inspired By Your Customers – Scott Sehlhorst
‘ Should your products be designed by your customers, or inspired by your customers? ‘How to Get Parameter Name and Argument Value From C# Lambda via IL? – Rinat Abdullin
Or “How NOT to Use .NET Linq Expressions in Order to Get Parameter Name and Argument Value From C# Lambda?”An investigation into routes – Kyle Baley
Testing: What is a defect? – Mark Needham
‘ (…) a defect is something which was covered by the acceptance criteria or something which has been previously exposed by exploratory testing and reappears ‘A Journeyman’s Pair Programming Tour – Mike Bria
‘ Inspired initially by the Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdös, Corey Haines has embarked on a tour in the name of increasing our industry’s emphasis on software as a craft ‘CarTrackr on Windows Azure – Part 4 – Membership and authentication – Maarten Balliauw
Next installment of Maartens continuing series on converting his MVC application to Windows Azure. O look, part 5 is already available!How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the View State – Tatham Oddie
‘ Page lifecycle in ASP.NET is a finicky and rarely understood beast. Unfortunately, it’s something that we all need to get a handle on ‘ASP.NET MVC Design Gallery and Design Competition – Joe Stagner
Cool stuff, there’s also a competition where you can show off your design skillsCreating a Website Sitemap Using Nested DataList and a Web.Sitemap File – Amit Raz
‘ It’s been a few months since I started getting acquainted with the System.DateTimeOffset type and I can honestly say I don’t see any reason to use System.DateTime anymore ‘
Front-end developers will love this ‘ One of our products demands converting quite a large amount of HTML to equivalent scripts, written in JavaScript that create said HTML ‘White Paper on ORM – Stephen Forte
Nice introduction to this topic*** Perception is reality – Craig Bailey
Insightful! ‘ (…) it doesn’t matter what your app really is/does – all that matters is what your customer thinks your app is/does ‘Design Stories – A bridge between roles – Willeke
‘ The design story template is used as the next layer beyond an XP-sized analysis story. It provides a mechanism for crafting highly focused design with minimal transaction costs ‘Fearful people can’t make things – Bob Walsh
‘ Tina Su is an online friend of mine that comes up with these incredibly thoughtful posts on creativity, clarity and happiness. Happiness? What’s that got to do with startups, coding, microISVs and the like? Everything ‘
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