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LINKBLOG for December 29, 2008

Dec 29th, 2008 by AZuidhof

- Corporate IT Departments Trends for 2009 – Chris Woodill
  ‘ Entrepreneurs focus on delivering high value services on a shoe-string budget – this is what is required in an economic down turn ‘
  2009 is gonna be a great time for the entrepreneurial types among us, according to Chris. Tend to agree here. These times of crisis will have businesses look for short term gains more than ever
- A Programmer’s View of the Universe – John Hunter
  Programmers…‘ also are more likely not to accept what most people are willing to accept and can therefore be annoying to some ‘
- *** Do you have the consulting skills IT managers want? – Susan Harkins
  ‘ Our characters and our ability to think logically and soundly and communicate clearly are more important than the sum of our technical credentials ‘
- Examining the Dependency Inversion Principle – Derek Greer
  Thorough explanation of this important principle, accompanied by making the link with Dependency Injection
  via Twitter / Kees Dijk, who is having a little linkblog himself over there with his morning reading
- Page Design with CSS using Microsoft Expression Web – Minal Agarwal
- Podcast: Keyvan Nayyeri on Microsoft ASP.NET MVC Framework – Mohammad Azam
- SOA Principles of Service Design – Colin Jack
  review of this book, and it’s not a positive one I can tell you
- Unit testing in Silverlight part 3 – Maurice de Beijer
  ‘ This post continues on my previous two post on using the Microsoft Silverlight Unit Test Framework ‘
- find-to-set-alias.ps1 – Brad Wilson
- Testing the OnActionExecuting event of a Controller – Peter Eysermans
  ‘ I was doing a bit of refactoring on an ASP.NET MVC web application and was using the OnActionExecuting event in a controller to do authentication. I had not yet written a test for it, blasphemy I know, so that had to be corrected ‘
- Limit Your Input to Increase Productivity – Jason Fitzpatrick
- Tired Of Working With Big Visual Studio Solutions? – Davy Brion
  ‘ Ever noticed how Visual Studio can be painfully slow when it comes to working with big solutions? ‘
  Yup. Davy offers some help here
- File and Directory Path help from the man who brought us NDepend – Greg Duncan
  Making interaction with the Filesystem a bit easier. Even the fact that you have strongly types file and directory paths helps tremendously!
- Exploring a Model-View-ViewModel Application; WPF Password Manager, Cipher Text – Karl Shifflett
  ‘ exploring Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) WPF UI Design Pattern as leveraged in a WPF Password Manager. Password Manager allows user to modify the shape and behavior of a record at run-time ‘
- Retro gaming at its best… – Eric Gunnerson
  ‘ Back when I was in high school, in the early 1980s, was when I was first introduced to computer games. What we called “arcade games” at the time ‘
- *** Thinking of leaving the industry – Joel on Software Discussion Group
  The leaver gets a thorough response from Joel himself. An interesting comment thread ensues
  via Twitter / rands
  Later the other StackOverflow fella joined the discussion… ‘ I’m betting you’ve also wondered more than once why some of your coworkers can’t, well, program ‘