LINKBLOG for January 14, 2009
Jan 14th, 2009 by AZuidhof
Happy 3rd Birthday, jQuery – Marshall Kirkpatrick
If They Are Genuinely Defining Your Work Culture, You Probably Don’t Even Know It – Rajiv Popat
Love the M.I.B. analogy!Four wireless security tips to share with clients – Susan Harkins
How Hard Could It Be?: Thanks or No Thanks – Joel Spolsky
‘ A young employee came up with an idea that added a million dollars to our bottom line. How do we reward him for the contribution? Do we even have to? ‘Top 10 Reasons Why I Hate the Internet – Michael Eaton
Click. You. Must.Monitoring HTTP Output with Fiddler in .NET HTTP Clients and WCF Proxies – Rick Strahl’s Web Log
Shields Up, Captain! – Steve Bohlen
Developer Faceoff: Sergio Pereira vs. Angelo Anolin – Max Pool
Leadership 101: Calm in a Storm – Jim Holmes
‘ Great leaders project calmness, even during crises. Your team doesn’t benefit from you losing your cool when times are tough. They need the feeling that things are being handled, even in tough situations ‘NHibernate + XML Columns – Joey Beninghove
DSLs: Ready for Prime-Time? – Ted Neward
Bad Apple Behaviors – David Starr
‘ The jerk is someone who attacks or insults others. The jerk is a voice of derision and operates by tearing down others ‘When Websites Trade Security for ‘happiness’ – Rachel Appel
‘ you’re reading this and thinking ‘Well, it’s just twitter’ or ‘Well, it’s just a another social networking site, it’s nothing really important”, then think again ‘Crunch Time – Ethan Vizitei
‘ Stress is high, task list is endless, and I ask myself “Is being part of a startup worth it?” ‘Hardcoding Considered Harmful – or is it? – Jeffrey Palermo
Interesting opinion: hardcode everything until it doesn’t cut it anymoreChecklist for high quality websites – Mads Kristensen
Mads provides a nice long list of ways to validate your websiteUnit Testing in VB.NET – with Typemock Isolator (with a free license offer) – Roy Osherove
Head First AOP – Ben Griswold
Ben gave a presentation about AOP, with his slide design heaviliy leaning on the Head First way of presentation. Looking very slick. Give him a nod if you want to see a blog post series
‘ why, then, do we still have customers that insist on big design up front, waterfall based methodologies, and other practices that we know are wrong? ‘
Excellent question that I face regularly…DDDD: Master-Detail Question – Greg Young
Why is Enforce.Argument Named Like This? – Rinat Abdullin
Is Product Architecture the same as Solution Architecture? NO! – Mike Walker
‘ … sometimes folks blur the perspectives of looking at a products architecture vs. looking at a solution architecture. All too often we combine the two as if they are the same ‘Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Mistakes – Jeff Atwood
Jeff reflects on the latest version of this important CWE/SANS listThe Pragramatic Programmer – Hans-Eric Grönlund
‘ A somewhat shallow “classic” ‘Burndown User Stories, Rather Than Tasks – Kelly Waters
‘ Estimating only in points also allows a team to realise the full benefits of Velocity, which causes a team’s estimating to be self-correcting ‘Chad Myers and Jeremy Miller on FubuMVC – Herding Code Episode 31
In the podcast this project FubuMVC is explained as the “Ruby On Rails for ASP.NET”. Interesting enough to put it on you playerRocks Into Gold by Clarke Ching – SlideShare
Wonderful description of real life layoff scenario in book form
via [don't remember]Pastie# 360261
public void it_should_default_to_human_friendly_mode()
via Twitter / Scott C Reynolds
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