LINKBLOG for January 26, 2009
Jan 26th, 2009 by AZuidhof
My First Agile Project: Go-Live – The Final Frontier – Matt Grommes
Matt is done with his big and insightful “first agile project” seriesMeasure Agile Productivity in $ – Jon Arild Tørresdal
Changing Patterns of Thought for Defining and Expanding Done – Travis Birch
Why relationships are key to IT consulting success – Chip Camden
‘ If you land a consulting gig, the best way to become appreciated is to demonstrate that you intend to contribute to your client’s happiness ‘Book Review: C# in Depth – Jason Haley
Write Code. Not Too Much. Lots of Tests – Aaron Oliver
‘ Testing is the key to quality software. If you aren’t writing tests, your’e doing it wrong ‘Ultimate Developer Rig 2009 – Steve Smith
In Cloud We Trust? – Sara Perez
The software simpleton: Assert.That(TDD, Is.True); – Paul Cowan
‘ Am I the only one who has written 40 test cases only to get a bug the moment the system under test went live? ‘How do you know your tests are good? – Laila Bougria
‘ – How do you know your tests are testing what they should be testing?
- How do you know your tests aren’t testing what they shouldn’t be testing? ‘Extension Methods & Single Responsibility Principle – Jason Young
Talk: Whats New With Team Foundation Server – Martin Woodward
Links to a couple helpful resourcesThis post title made me laugh, “I’ve Left Query Analyzer Hell For LINQPad Heaven” – Greg Duncan
Ignoring Testing can be Explained, but Never Excused – Chris Missal
‘ Maybe the word “test” or “tester” is not in your job title. This doesn’t excuse you from testing your code. You probably test it visually before handing it off or checking it in anyway ‘Announcing Trinidad: In-process test runner for FitNesse wiki pages – Gojko Adzic
Beg, Borrow, Steal before Build – Tony Davis
‘ Only when the answer to all of the above is “no”, when all other ways of developing the application have proved futile, should you consider “rolling your own” ‘Guidelines for Method Overloading – Dave Donaldson
Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate now available – IE8 blog
grab the bits while they’re hotCombine Policy Injection Application Block with Unity – Alkampfer
When is a postback not a postback? – Barry Dorrans
The Friend of a Friend Plug-In for Graffiti – Keyvan Nayyeri
Leadership 101: Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff (And It’s NOT All Small Stuff) – Jim Holmes
Behavior Driven JavaScript Development with JSSpec – Fredrik Kalseth
Italian ALT.NET Conference retrospective – Simone Chiaretta
Here in the Netherlands it’s too early for an Alt.NET conference, but who knows?Capture the output from a Scheduled Task – Richard Dingwall
Trimming the fat? – Craig Bailey
On a grand scale, how bad are the recent Microsoft layoffs? Craig thinks it’s not too much of a a shocker
‘ (…) this is about timelines. Microsoft is simply indicating that they believe the current economic conditions are here for a while. No real surprises there ‘Stored Procedure Patterns – Tony Rasa
VB.Net and the Spaghetti Code Of Doom – Anne Epstein
ASP.NET 4.0: WebForm Routing (quick ’n dirty version) – Scott Galloway
via HaackedA Scripter at Heart – Jeff Atwood
‘ I didn’t know it then, but I sure do now. I hadn’t been programming at all. I had been scripting ‘How to Handle Multiple Customers – Jurgen Appelo
Since you sometimes just can get them off your chest, you need a way to handle those hordes of clients coming your wayA Disclosure – Rands In Repose
‘ My management career began with a misunderstanding ‘DDD & Many to Many Object Relational Mapping – Udi Dahan
Clean Code – Review, Part I – Oliver Gierke
Review of Uncle Bob’s book that gave an overhaul to OO principlesReaderWriterLockSlim – Patrik Hägne
..is new in .NET Framework 3.5: ‘ This is more or less a total replacement for the ReaderWriterLock-class and the wacky name is because they had to leave the old class in (…) ‘How to fix Microsoft’s Two-Tier Service Application Scenario (REST) – Sebastien Lambla
‘ I do not know if this guidance is the result of an incomplete understanding of REST architectures (which is quite widespread in Microsoft’s literature) or an attempt at over-simplification ‘
Sebastien happily comments on P&P guidance document on REST in 2-tier applications
Everything xDD in this presentation by Rebecca Wirfs-BrockCut Down on Book Hoarding – Jason Fitzpatrick
‘ Make a rule that you will read X number of books you currently own before buying another one. Set a “read-to-purchase ratio” ‘
Good advice if you’re library is littered with book that yet have to be read. Unless you just like a huge library for kicks of course!35 Free High-Quality E-Commerce Templates | Developer’s Toolbox – Smashing Magazine
A lot of folks look down on these out-of-the-box templates, but for the majority of sites they might be everything you look for. I get “nice site!” comments for a site that took me under 2 hour to both figure out how Joomla – yeah, php, I know
– works and additionally choose a template
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Busy day huh
@Chip: and a thanks back, you’re welcome!
@Jef: no, probably had too many procrastination time