LINKBLOG for January 6, 2009
Jan 6th, 2009 by AZuidhof
Don’t lose your code – 3 methods that can help – Jason Young
found the TimeSnapper option a funny onetravel airline car rental hotels at n2cms.com
Did corporate IT depts not get the memo disk space is cheap? – Derik Whittaker
Agile Teams and Organisational Policy – Mitch Denny
‘ Agile development teams develop a can do mind-set which is good for the company because they become brave enough challenge old assumptions ‘Verifying code and testing with Pex – Maarten Balliauw
Testing WCF Service Apps (part 4 of 4) – Brian Genisio
‘ functional testing (…) differs greatly from unit testing in that a unit test is only concerned with an individual class ‘Disabling TFS Automatic Check out – Martin Woodward
21 Entrepreneurship Websites Worth Checking Out – Thursday Bram
Is “Follow” A Core Web 2.0 Pattern? – Dare Obasanjo
The Cost of Net Negative Producing Programmers – Jay Fields
Soon Hui has a responseMessaging is not just for investment banks – Gojko Adzic
‘ In a nutshell, messaging allows us to reliably break up a single process into several parts which can then be executed asynchronously ‘Education Breakdown? – Ryan Kelley
‘ Then I found the Alt.Net community and began further educating myself on these topics. The most important part of what I just discussed is, “I educated myself.” In large part this is the one single thing that separates a great developer from a programmer, initiative ‘Book Review: Professional ASP.NET 3.5 Security, Membership, and Role Management with C# and VB – Travis Illig
What would we have seen if Twitter were available in past? Historical Tweets… – Greg Duncan
Introduction to Rhino Mocks AAA Syntax – Mohammad Azam
Introducing the ASP.NET MVC (Part 3) – Installing the Prerequisites – Nick Berardi
Abstracting Away From Exceptions – Michael Feathers
‘ I use them and find them helpful, but I feel that they are a bit of a cop-out as a language construct. If an exception could talk, it would say “get me the hell out of here.” And, you have to admit, that’s a bit rude ‘7 Simple Time Management Rules For the Super Busy – Leo Babauta
‘ Throw out your schedule and you’ll never feel guilty about not keeping it again ‘Save time at startup by skipping the splash – Darren Stokes
‘ The display of the splash screen can be turned off by passing the /nosplash parameter to devenv.exe ‘
All productivity hacks are welcome, especially if they take no time to carry out and are used every dayDeveloper Scrabble – Tim Stall
Wonderful inspiration your next user group meeting or team offsite…Mapping a list of components with Fluent NHibernate – Benny Michielsen
From coding whore to opinionated developer? – Jonas Bandi
‘ I am wondering if the concept of being opinionated could be extended from software to … the developer?
No Source Control? – Where is the exit, please … ‘10-Minute Video Introduction to Scrum – Kelly Waters
Management for the self-employed – Scott Berkun
‘ It turns out that the best organization tools are a single sheet of paper and a calm brain ‘Backups: a cautionary tale – Charles Miller
‘ RAID is not a backup mechanism
any problem that occurs outside the hardware itself will be faithfully mirrored to both drives by the RAID controller before you even know it’s happening ‘The Case of the Crashed Phone Call – Mark Russinovich
new case file!DDD is not all-or-nothing – Jimmy Bogard
‘ The Domain-Driven Design book (or, the Blue Bible), is chock-full of patterns. (…) As a consequence, many readers might assume that DDD requires these patterns, that you must apply these patterns, and not following these patterns means that you’re doing DDD ‘StringBuilder Required Capacity Algorithm – Ben Griswold
‘ You’ve heard it all before, but what you might not know is how StringBuilder dynamically allocates its capacity’
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