LINKBLOG for January 19, 2009
Jan 19th, 2009 by AZuidhof
Software development is like golf … – Bernie Thompson
‘ (…) in that your chosen path to the pin is a primary problem ‘Unity Interception and Custom ICallHandler – Order Property and Firing of Handlers – David Hayden
I Don’t Really See The Problem With NHibernate’s XML Mapping Files – Davy Brion
Agile Doesn’t Fix Anything – Mike Cottmeyer
Serious piece of advice for those blindly switching over to the Agile way of life, or any other methodology, for that matter:
‘ (…) if you have problems with your development organization, making the switch to agile WILL NOT fix anything ‘How do you get business from your social and professional network? – Rajesh Setty
It’s Time to go Full-time – James Avery
James goes indy fulltime, and the best for us is ‘ I plan on blogging about it every step of the way ‘
Will be interesting to learn his experiencesMiracle on the Hudson: The Group Dynamics Angle – Bob Sutton
‘ (…) good groups instantly divide up tasks so the best people are in the best positions (…) if you are designing teams, err on the side of assembling them with people who have worked together before and on the side of keeping them together longer ‘IRepository<T>: one size does not fit all – Richard Dingwall
ASP Dynamic Data Preview – More ways to exploit ADO.NET Data Services for fun and profit – Scott Hanselman
Classic Marketing Boo Boos 101: accidentally including a screenshot of somebody else’s product in your promotional materials – Bart Read
Funny, Microsoft including a screenshot showing ReSharper on their official VS 2010 page. WhenI checked the screenshot was still thereCopy Pictures To Folders By Date Taken with Powershell – Steve Smith
For all(?) you Powershell usersTDD Firestarter Wrapup – Scott C Reynolds
With pointers to testing frameworks, including UI testing*** Frustrated With Coworkers? The Clue You Don’t Want To Hear… – Max Pool
Very good opinion piece on how we tend to put the blame on the other party far too easily… passionate and less passionate folks alike, especially when confronted with each otherConverting Dates in SQL Server – Rhonda Tipton
Code sample and some resources regarding theConvert method in SQL Server
‘ This question is for all of the TDD and unit test folks, so I’m hoping someone comes up with an answer ‘Pragmatic Enterprise Architecture Framework (PeaF) – Mike Walker
The Larry Test – Rands In Repose
It ain’t so simple, mister! – Oren Eini
Explanation of why seemingly simple feature requests might not be so simple as an outsider thinks. Interesting because this post is from developer to developer, while normally these kinds of discussions flow back and forth between the business and IT / Development.Clean Code Developer Grades – Black Degree – Michael Minutillo
How to become a Jedi, Robert C. Martin styleNetwork More Effectively by Following Up – Jason Fitzpatrick
‘ If you’re less of a networking guru and more of a wall flower, using tools to follow up can boost your effectiveness ‘
But still, tools only help you so much, if you don’t actively work to to get rid of your wall flower attitude. I mean, you don’t strive to become an arrogant twit that will never shut up. But you definitely need some ’speaking in public’ courage to make it out therePair programming is just like flying a plane – Sarah Taraporewalla
‘ And just like the cultural forces that caused so many disasters for Korean Airline, the cultural forces of the development community leads to many pair programming sessions, crash-and-burning ‘Book Review: Domain-Driven Design by Eric Evans – Zachariah Young
zachariahyoungCore Mule / Refcardz – Jos Dirksen
‘ Mule is one of the most mature open source enterprise service busses (ESBs) out there. It provides an easy to use, lightweight ESB that can easily be integrated with a large amount of technologies ‘
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