LINKBLOG for January 13, 2009
Jan 13th, 2009 by AZuidhof
10 Useful Web Application Interface Techniques – Smashing Magazine
Signs of a GOOD Manager / Team Lead – Adam Goucher
referal to a great post about leadershipCargo-cult commenting – Richard Dingwall
Fluent NHibernate’s AutoPersistenceModel – Chris Missal
Typemock Isolator Has a New VB.NET Friendly API – Travis Illig
Running before you can walk – Tony Davis
‘ I admire a person who can take a subject that has apparently been “done to death” and bring a new clarity to it ‘If Microsoft is so good at testing, why does your software suck? – Jan Schreuder
Acronym Seeking Abbreviation: ASP.NET MVC – Elijah Manor
Seems we need to talk about MVC.NET from now on…As is in CSharp too – Dave
Building a WPF Application: Part 6 – Christopher Bennage
Vulnerability of the Dynamic Linq – Rinat Abdullin
Book Excerpt and Interview: Rails for .NET Developers – Robert Bazinet
Making the Entity Framework Fit Your Domain – Part 2 – Justin Etheredge
‘ In this post we are going to go over the entity that I have created and talk about the issues that I had along the way ‘Introducing the ASP.NET MVC (Part 6) – The View – Nick Berardi
How would the CLR Be Different? – Matthew Podwysocki
Criteria for a Disciplined Agile Team – Scott Ambler
Innovative design is simple – Chris Spagnuolo
Continuous Integration – When and why? – Willeke
Beginning F#: Card Tricks – Seth Livingston
‘ Discover the power of F# by writing a complete card-shuffling program in only 92 lines of code ‘10 Reasons ASP.NET Webforms Suck
and the rebuttal here ASP.NET WebForms DO NOT SUCK! – Mohammad Azam
I tend more towards the rebuttal, since mentioning “Other web developers assume you’re inferior” as your main problem with ASP.NET web forms rule you out in making an informed post about it, me saysPutting controllers into different assembly on MVC project – Luis Abreu
DotNetNuke Moves to Microsoft Codeplex ! – Joe Stagner
‘ It’s great to see the growing vibrancy to CodePlex and the Open Source ASP.NET Community ‘Framework Configuration: A Different Approach – Davy Brion
Why LINQ to SQL is not a proper ORM – Garry Shutler
How many unit tests are sufficient? – Tim Stall
‘ By this time, every developer probably knows that along with a hundred other tasks, they’re also supposed to write unit tests ‘
I can assure you that this is not the case, unfortunately…Good Design is Easily-Learned – Scott Bellware
‘ The essence of “good design” is it’s ability to be absorbed by a human mind. Design is “good” when it can be easily-learned ‘
Scott has another great essay!100 Interview Questions for Software Developers – Jurgen Appelo
I sincerely hope Jurgen doesn’t ask all these questions in each of his interviews
On a serious note: it’s quite a inspirational list, offering ‘…starting points for interesting discussions ‘ as he himself statesInnovate on Purpose: Innovation isn’t free
‘ Innovation isn’t free, in fact it isn’t even cheap. But the rewards can be tremendous ‘
Interesting stuffReasons people IGNORE your request – Rajesh Setty
If You Don’t Change the UI, Nobody Notices – Jeff Atwood
After inspecting Win7 screenshots, Jeff finds a reason to give it a try …
‘ That’s right, Microsoft finally improved the calculator app! ‘Starting a User Group, Entry #1 – Jason Haley
‘ This is the first entry of a series of entries in which I’m going to discuss what is going on with starting the downtown Seattle .Net user group … ‘What C-3PO Can Teach You About Job Security – Max Pool
‘ Proving that you know how to learn, unlearn, and relearn is the greatest thing you can offer an employer ‘
Nice overview of how the .NET Framework, language and CLR versions relate. It tells you, e.g. that Framework 3.x builds on top of 2.0, meaining if you install 3.5, you don’t need to separately install 2.0 and 3.0
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