LINKBLOG for December 23, 2008
Dec 23rd, 2008 by AZuidhof
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I’m Sorry Robert, But It’s Time For A Friendfeed Intervention – Michael Arrington
2500 hrs a year on Twitter and FriendFeed is *a lot*, even for a Scoble. One wonders how a human being can stay sane spending such insane amounts behind a computer…should our new year’s resolution be to spend more time offline maybe?Top 100 Products of 2008 – Richard MacManus
Useful Exception Extension Method – Get Full Stack Trace With Recursion – Yoann B
Implementing the MVCA Pattern – The Adapter – Payton Byrd
The Syndrome of Verbose Blogging – Keyvan Nayyeri
VAN (Virtual ALT.NET Meeting) Update – Chad Myers
If it is inconvenient to meet in person, you can consider virtual meetings, as Alt.NET people in the States do. Unfortunately that means for us, west-europeans, we have to get up at 3 or 4 A.M. to join. Fortunately, there seems interest from the european side to start something over here ourselves. Good plan!Hidden Windows Gems: Extensible Storage Engine – Oren Eini
‘ Did you know that Windows came with an embedded database?
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The embedded database is called Esent, and the managed library for this API was just released ‘3 Things The Auto Industry Could Learn From The Computer Industry – Jeff Blankenburg
DslExceptionalism – Martin Fowler
Werner Vogels – Chief of the Year 2008 – Craig Bailey
The Zen of Results and Evernote – J.D. Meier
Where Is Your Community? – Dawn Foster
Dawn FosterWhy Projects Don’t Need Specialists – Johanna Rothmann
As a generalist I would be happy to agree. However, here in the Netherlands at least you see a tendency towards specialization in software development. A generalist is seen more and more as a jack-of-all-trades, who is “master of none”Crashing your Process with Timers – Tomas Restropo
‘ Here’s a bug I had to diagnose this weekend that had me scratching my head for a bit before getting it ‘How I’m Currently Writing My BDD Style Tests – Part 2 – Jean-Paul Boodhoo
The Unrealistic Deadline Anti-Pattern – Davy Brion
‘ Being in technical debt is like owing money to Tony Soprano… you better get out of debt fast or things are gonna get much worse, very soon even ‘Using NHibernate mapping overriding to extend Rhino Security – Bart Merchtem
‘ Now I am able to do whatever I want with the Rhino Security Operations. You can of course also use this way of working to build a dynamic domain model ‘How to Use .NET 3.5 Features and C# 3.0 Syntax in .NET 2.0? – Rinat Abdullin
‘ It is possible to benefit from some of the .NET 3.5 features and new syntactic sugar in C# 3.0, while still targeting customers that have only .NET 2.0 Framework ‘
As I as reminded recently, I make a note-to-self to spend a little time going under the hood of the framework and language versions…Framework Guidelines V2 – Glenn Block
Testing First vs Testing Last – Mark Needham
‘ I recently posted about my experiences of testing last where it became clear to me how important writing the test before the code is ‘An appreciative inquiry of work in 2008 to prepare us for 2009 – Jason Yip
*** Managing Passionate Employees – John Hunter
‘ A passionate employee can seem like a bother, not willing to just go along but constantly challenging and pushing for new ideas ‘ There’s a lot of managers out there that should act on the advice in this article instead of just *saying* they are looking for passion
I missed this a couple days ago, but Rod has been busy refactoring his Twitter application, that was built on alt.net principles. Nice tutorial!Holiday Goodie Bag: Free C# and VB Coding Standards Reference Documents – Clint Edmonson
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