LINKBLOG for January 25, 2009
Jan 25th, 2009 by AZuidhof
Permanent bug fixes – Ethan Vizitei
Ethan reminds us of something we all to easily forget in our quest to resolve a bug ASAP: ‘ make sure it doesn’t happen again ‘Convention over Configuration in MSDN Magazine – Jeremy D. Miller
8 Inspiring Stories Of ASCII Art – Smashing Magazine
‘ (…) we’ll stroll through the past and present of ASCII art, assessing the influence of key pioneers, so that you might feel inspired to go forth and create ‘Contributing to Open Source Without Committing a Line Of Code – Tim Barcz
Since starting to write real code for an open source project can be a tough and daunting task, Tim proposes to start following the associated mail list and answer questions there. It could also be regarded as ‘contributing’NHibernate and Future Queries – Davy Brion
Davy has another trick on his sleeve to make get to optimize his way to database roundtrip zenLearning alone or Learning together – Mark Needham
‘ One of the things that I have been curious about since we started running coding dojos is whether people learn more effectively alone or when learning as part of a group ‘Creating an ASP.NET SiteMap dynamically using LINQ and bind to a TreeView – Suprotim Agarwal
RFID: What I really want it for – Jon Skeet
Apart from the obvious privacy issue, Jon sees enormous potential for practical everyday usage of RFID
‘ Working out which wash cycle to use for a whole washing basket. Can’t see the dark sock hidden in the white wash? The RFID scanner could alert you to it ‘Want to play with the new WPF based code editor that’s coming in VS2010? See Windows 7 and the PowerShell ISE – Greg Duncan
A common class for executing tasks with a responsive UI – Paul B
The Core Elements of Program Planning and Controls – Project Accounting – Glen Alleman
MVC Storefront Part 26: Finis – Rob Conery
Rob finishes this impressive and monstrous series, that has gotten a history of his ownReflector Addin: CopyPath and VS Command Prompt Here – Jason Haley
Visual Studio Team System Web Access 2008 SP1 Power Tool – Robert Shelton
Top 10 Tools for Sticking to Your New Year’s Resolutions – Kevin Purdy
XamlCruncher for Silverlight – Petzold
‘ The static XamlReader.Load method — implemented in both the Windows Presentation Foundation and Silverlight — is a wonderfully simple and powerful tool ‘Building WCF services with F#, Part 2 – Ted Neward
and Building WCF services with F#, InterludeSearching Encrypted Data – John Magnabosco
Don’t shoot yourself in the foot and just mindlessly encrypt everything for security sake
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