LINKBLOG for February 2, 2009
Feb 2nd, 2009 by AZuidhof
WPF XAML Data Binding Cheat Sheet – Nbd-tech blog
Background Unit Testing: New Evolutions in Unit Testing and IDE Integration – John Ferguson
‘ An emerging innovation in unit testing is the idea of Continuous Unit Testing, or having your unit tests run in the background whenever you modify your code ‘Ten Signs of EA Maturity – Jane A. Carbone
‘ A maturity assessment measures how well your EA process operates as a business function – much like an ordering function or data center operation ‘Book Review: Don’t Make Me Think – Max Pool
Leadership 101: Stop Talking and Listen – Jim Holmes
‘ This one might be subtitled “Miscommunication? It’s Your Fault, Not Theirs.” That or “Make Your Default Answer ‘Yes’, not ‘No’.” ‘Who the Frag Has Time For Open Source? – Sara Chipps
‘ Do I use open source stuff? Sure. Do I support the projects? Absolu. However, I definitely need a clone if I ever think about getting involved in one ‘Scrum in Middle Earth – Landon Dyer
‘ Gandalf? ‘Getting Familiar With Your Basic .NET Delegates – Brian di Croce
‘ (…) these delegates allow me to concentrate more on the business logic rather than, for example, writing the plumbing necessary to iterate over a collection ‘‘Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2′ by John Papa – Alvin Ashcraft
Experiences in .NET development: Forget NAnt, try Rake – Garry Shutler
The MVC platform: the TagBuilder class – Luis Abreu
Don’t Use Arbitrary Limits – Justin Etheredge
IT consultants, keep your pipeline healthy – Chip Camden
‘ As the story on the economy reads more and more like a Stephen King novel, a fear that consultants secretly feel even in the best of times frequently rises to the surface: What if business dries up completely? ‘Laid Off Employees Turning to Cybercrime – Lidija Davis
Seems the crisis does not bring out the best in some of it’s victimsTechnical vs. Managerial Career Ladder – David Starr
David provides a handy sheet outlining the capabilities you need when pursuing a career in software engineering
Jim has a small code tipOpenID Delegate Plug-In for Graffiti – Keyvan Nayyeri
Teaching, Symbology, and Intellectual Materialism – The Chasm is a Vacuum – Scott Bellware
If you could use a tool and do good works with it, but if you didn’t know the name of the tool, would you be less of a craftsperson? How much less? Would your works be less valuable to the people who are served by them?Getting Started with PowerShell – Developer Edition – James Kovacs
‘ I don’t see a lot of developers using the command line and this surprises me. Maybe it’s my Unix background that attracts me to the command line ‘Can’t Grok, Won’t Grok: I am a Student Without a Master – Rob the Geek
‘ (…) that means you end up with a shockingly high number of people like me. People that want to be great, grow and learn, but we have no one to really look up to, to train us, to teach us ‘When time is of the essence – Patrik Hägne
‘ To write tests for classes with strong, hard coded, dependencies is always hard. One very common dependency is the dependency on the DateTime.Now-property ‘
Some testcode to handle this issue
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