LINKBLOG for December 30, 2008
Dec 30th, 2008 by AZuidhof
And so the year is slowly but steadily coming to an end. Fire crackers to be heard on the streets here the whole day. Will be much much worse tomorrow
this came just in via Twitter / / Elijah Manor. Very cool. Just check out the “mouse speed” (the first example) and you see what I mean
‘ I was intrigued to read the code though – you can always learn something by doing so and reading code is one of the ares that I want to improve in ‘
Oxite is keeping everyone busy these days. On top of my hipster PDA now is reading it’s source code, since it is easy to have an opinion, but more important to have a well funded one. Thanks Mark!
‘ The only robot I ever liked was Wheeepony, but Twitter killed him (to make glue?) ‘
Humorous “quote of the day”, immediately making me think of Dick Francis thrillers, where dead horses are always described as “on their way to the glue factory”
‘ Oxite is the best example to show how bad WebForms are when it comes to rendering standard compliant HTML ‘
So we can conclude here that even from bad code there is something good to be learned
‘ This area of study still fascinates me and this book certainly gives a great deal of insight into the way that world class performers have made themselves so ‘
‘ Ideally, we want to develop using readable JavaScript files (even 3rd party files) and deploy compressed/obfuscated code. Our solution has simply been to apply a post-build task to our project. Here’s what we did ‘
Sometimes it’s just astonishingly simple to help ourselves as developers
‘ Part CSI, part Mission Impossible, and part MacGyver, the team hijacked the botnet so that their code was actually part of the dark network itself ‘
Read the post, or even the whole paper for an exciting inside picture on how botnets work
‘ It’s been fun watching the reactions to new features in C# 4.0. Some people love them. Others wonder, legitimately, where it is all going to end ‘
Book Review: Pragmatic Thinking & Learning – Jim HolmesStrong reasoning: we do not document undocumented features, since that means they’re not undocumented anymore.
Phil joins Jeff and many others in the ongoing programming passion meme
‘ (…) when a new tool like the Entity Framework comes out, even if you are not a fan, you still need to have a solid knowledge of it because you are going to have to use it at some point Reality bites, sometimes
‘ If you’re looking for an external, non-open source home for your code or a light-weight, web-based project management tool, I highly recommend using Unfuddle ‘
We just aren’t very creative – Jeffrey Phillips‘ There are some lies we tell ourselves that eventually we come to believe or hold as truths ‘
Insertion Sort – Ethan ViziteiWanna learn something by going to lectures, but without spending any cash? Go to iTunesU like Ethan did. Now I finally have no reasons left NOT to start using iTunes
‘ (…) a nice opportunity to create a small jQuery sample that renders a range (or ranges) of HTML characters along with their codes ‘
Includes cool worksheet helping you make that judgment call between Web Forms and MVC
How doing stuff by hand instead of automated can lead to improved insight into your application ‘ After seeing these things, we took a closer look at how the tables were actually used, and found that some things were not mapped well based on actual usage ‘
‘ Know that the world of successful businesses online is much larger than that tiny tip that peaks above the surface for a reporter to find. There’s incredible wealth being created below ‘
Via Scott Berkun comes this interesting post from earlier this month, but worth a mention here since I haven’t seen it mentioned anywhere else: by looking around on his blog we can see Rajiv Popat posts regularly on topics like agile, leadership and team building, especially but not exclusively targeted at the .NET world.
Here’s an idea: in these quiet days between Christmas and New Year, have a look at your feed reader subscriptions, relentlessly remove the ones that have not brought enough value recently and add people like Rajiv to it. He deserves some extra readers!
‘ Jeff Patton, winner of the Agile Alliance’s 2007 Gordon Pask Award, explains why one needs to embrace uncertainty in order to succeed with his/her Agile project and how to avoid some of the common mistakes leading to project failure ‘
Screenshots!
Lots of principles to be learned from RoR in this podcast, where the whole spectrum of Rails seems to be discussed
‘ 12. Stop striving for perfection, and strive for execution instead ‘
Most of us can take this last thing to heart, can’t we?
Since ultra passionate Kathy Sierra stopped bloggin under sad circumstances, we have to help ourselves with alternatives, like recorded sessions
Davy helps a bit in choosing a platform for web development, if you’re in the luxurious position to freely start from scratch ‘ So there you have it… the three options for .NET web development. I’d stay away from WebForms altogether from now on, and i’d decide between ASP.NET MVC and Silverlight on a case by case basis ‘
Ayende with a – insanely long- transcript of a conversation he had on this topic
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