LINKBLOG for January 27, 2009
Jan 27th, 2009 by AZuidhof
We don’t need to define good design – J. B. Rainsberger
We don’t need to define good designASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate Now Available – Scott Guthrie
Takeaways from Presenting Data and Information (Edward Tufte) – Russell Wilson
The 10 Second Visual Studio Makeover – Russell Ball
Why You Should Celebrate Your Mistakes – Leo Babauta
Mistakes are good when you draw experience from it, and bad if you try to forget them asapHouse of Cards Design Anti-pattern – Peter Ritchie
‘ A problem occurs when software is written that works in a specific observed scenario but no one knows why it works in that scenario ‘
Yup, have seen this code in the past. As we all have. Cool anti-pattern name!Tales from High Memory Scenarios: Part 1 – Sasha Goldshtein
What’s Wrong With This Code? (#21) – K. Scott Allen
‘ We can use closures and functional programming in general to create elegant, succinct solutions, but sometimes we can also create subtle bugs ‘Painful Reminder: Focus on Core Competencies (and Back Stuff Up) – Scott Hanselman
‘ Lesson: Back Up Your Stuff or Die ‘Castle MicroKernel Fluent Event Wiring – Colin Ramsay
Javascript Array Fun – Rick Strahl
Points For Stories and the Perplexing Nature of Estimating Software – Jeffrey Palermo
Free screencast on ASP.NET MVC – Onion Blog – Fritz Onion
‘ I walk you through the steps in creating a minimal ASP.NET MVC application, point out some of the differences between MVC and traditional Webforms, and discuss the roles of controllers, views, and models and their implementation in ASP.NET MVC ‘Put down the abstract factory and get something done – JD Conley
‘ In the early years of a startup only one thing should matter to a programmer: shipping your product to meet your customers’ needs. Everything else we do is simply a result of this, the humblest of goals ‘Book Review: The one minute manager meets the monkey – Kasper B. Graversen
UTF8Encoding.Default != Encoding.UTF8 (.NET C#) – Lars Corneliussen
Been bitten by this one ourselves. “Default” feels like a warm blanket, until you realize that it is nothing more than the current operating system ANSI page.
I looked up whether MSDN has to say anything about it: ” To ensure that the encoded bytes are decoded properly, your application should use a Unicode encoding, that is, UTF8Encoding, UnicodeEncoding, or UTF32Encoding, with a preamble”JQuery Shopping Cart Functionality In Less Time and Code – Mohammad Azam
Agile in the Trenches – David Starr
‘ (…) he wasn’t trying to bring Agility to his team so much as he was simply trying to bring professionalism ‘The Presentation of Self in Everyday Tweeting – Adam Shostack
Just be careful what you put out there on all these social thingiesTrack Velocity, Not Time Spent on Tasks – Chris Sims
Some Thoughts on Project Velocity – Mike Cottmeyer
‘ Velocity is fundamentally a measure of team throughput. How fast are we able to go… iteration over iteration… against a relatively stable queue of product feature ‘A Pinball Game and Teamwork – Rajesh Setty
Basically stating that if all team members strive for their own goals instead of those of the team, good luck in getting anywhereGood == Agile – Pascal Van Cauwenberghe
‘ A developer came up to me and told me something strange was happening to him since he worked in an XP team: he’d started to call everything he liked “Agile” ‘
Funny thing, but most people would disqualify you if you do this, not everyone is attracted to putting the Agile label on everything. And more: what is the use? Pascal says it’s just a phase you will go throughOptimize your team – Jared Richardson
‘ The best way to keep people on target is to provide them feedback as often as possible ‘The circle of most influencing community members – Dennis Doomen
‘ decided to name the six professionals who have been inspiring me the most in the last year or two ‘
While lists like these tend to end up in heated discussions, one can say nothing about the value each of these professionals put into the communityEssay #60 – How to be a free thinker – Scott Berkun
‘Are you free? I know I’m not. That’s why I write essays about being free, to freely show how un-free I am. Does this not make any sense? That’s ok. All is explained in the essay ‘
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