LINKBLOG for January 22, 2009
Jan 22nd, 2009 by AZuidhof
The Data Management Body of Knowledge (DMBOK) – Craig Brown
‘ another BOK to add to the list! ‘Five strategies for handling stubborn clients – Chip Camden
‘ When a client asks you to implement a project’s solution that isn’t up to your standards, what do you do? ‘Presentation: Textual DSLs Made Simple – Abel Avram
Presentation that takes you through ‘ (…) the steps needed to create a textual DSL from defining the grammar to processing a domain model ‘Examining Acceleration – Scott Ambler
Tales from hashes, null and boolean evaluation – Björn Rochel
C#: Builder pattern still useful for test data -Mark Needham
‘ I had thought that with the ability to use the new object initalizer syntax in C# 3.0 meant that the builder pattern was now no longer necessary but some recent refactoring efforts have made me believe otherwise ‘Good programmers: nature or nurture? – Adrian Wible
‘ From where do good programmers sprout? Do they come from top-notch collegiate computer science programs? Do they stem from a gene correlated with good problem-solving abilities and ability to think in higher level abstractions? Where does the balance lie between nature and nurture? ‘
very good read, via Twitter JurgenAppeloThe Software Cure For A Financial Meltdown – K. Scott Allen
C++ Tip: How To Get Array Length – Shahar Y
jQuery – Retrieving HTML Fragments – Dave Bush
Test Drive with database – Alkampfer
Learning some new tools – Ian Cooper
Ian is looking at Spark View Engine, SpecUnit and Fluent NHibernate, among othersPhasing your software project – Simon Brown
Web Platform Installer 1.0 Released – One package, tons of web platform installs – Greg Duncan
ASP.NET MVC Tip #46 – Don’t use Delete Links because they create Security Holes – Stephen Walther
Foster Success with Small Victories – Jim Holmes
‘ As a leader you need to build the confidence of your team with a regular parade of victories and successes, even if it’s a parade of small victories ‘Getting Started with Facebook Desktop (Client) Applications, C#, WPF / XAML and JSON – Murray Foxcroft
Agile Metrics: The Nelly Threat Level – Ade Miller
More Web Design Trends For 200 – Smashing Magazine
Don’t make ‘readonly’ fields less readable – Leon Bambrick
‘ There’s a common UI anti-pattern of making “readonly” fields harder to read than editable fields ‘
Ahh, *those* readonly fields…but good thoughts anyway, rethinking things we take for granted is always a good ideaGTD’ing the Economy – Dustin Wax
‘ At times, it’s easy to feel like no matter how neatly you draw up and categorize your to-do lists and your project files, you are at the mercy of massive forces beyond your control ‘40 of the Best Twitter Brands and the People Behind Them
See how companies are jumping the social media bandwagon
via Twitter / ScottHaLeadership Qualities of an Enterprise Solution Architect – Mike Walker
‘ (…) whatever type of architect you are soft skills are critical. EI [Emotional Intelligence, ed.] provides a great way to think about these skills ‘When to use Dependency Injection – Miško Hevery
Pulling the Plug on IT Projects – Bruce F. Webster
‘ Shutting down an IT project should be a methodical process, whether the job is being put on hiatus or killed once and for all ‘
viaOne of the Most Useful “Web” Tips I Have Ever Learnt: Unique Password for Every Site – Zee Kane
This will actually work, when the unique part of you password is not too easy to guess. Point is that “they” don’t know about you password strategy, so as long as the seperate ones are difficult enough to guess, you should be save. By the way, here is an online tool checking the strength of your password
You might have seen this in the news already: the nerd’s way to prove the new president is more transparent than the old one
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