LINKBLOG for February 5, 2009
Feb 5th, 2009 by AZuidhof
S.O.L.I.D. By Example: Open Closed Principal – Bobby Johnson
XBAPs Part 1: An introduction to this Gem – Marlon Grech
BOOK – Manning WPF in Action with Visual Studio 2008 – Joe Stagner
An Essential Tip for Working With XAML – Christopher Bennage
Blankenthoughts: Introducing the “Starter Series” – Jeff Blankenburg
‘ You are building websites or desktop applications, and just don’t have the luxury of using the latest and greatest technologies.
This “Starter Series” is designed for you ‘
Like this: most blog posts seem directed towards a more [cough..] advanced audience, forgetting the poor sods that have to trod through massive amounts of old skool code and want to improve their skills, without ending up in debates about IoC containers all the timeMaster LINQ with LINQPad – Al Tenhundfeld
Experiences in .NET development: Test aided development – Garry Shutler
‘ I am the example of a test infected developer. The problem I have is conveying the benefits to the people I work with in order to get them aboard the testing train ‘
Yep, can relate here.DslMigration – Martin Fowler
‘ Like any other deice of software, a successful DSL will evolve. This means that scripts written in an earlier version of a DSL may fail when run with a later version ‘A nasality talisman for the sultana analyst – Eric Lippert
How much more of a geek can you be when you write some code that calculates the words that will give you the highest Scrabble score – to impress your wife!
OK, fun and all, until you read that Eric actually had to solve this problem when being interviewed by MicrosoftBook Review: Silverlight In Action – John Papa
Time Estimation for User Story – Sean Feldman
One of the ways you can do thisIRequestChannel and One-Way Contracts – Tomas Restrepo
DDD Aggregate Component pattern in action – Jimmy Bogard
‘ You can get really fancy with your ORM or really fancy with your IoC Container to try and make your Entities join in an unholy matrimony. But there are other, better ways of skinning this OO cat ‘Everybody Needs … Unit Tests – Przemysław Bielicki
Think Scrum is crap? XP sucks? All well and right, but Przemysław begs you:
‘ I can understand everything but PLEASE do unit test your code! Forget about Agile, forget about processes and methodologies – just unit test your code ‘IE8 – a train wreck heading to a PC near you – Angry Hacker
NYTimes Exposes 2.8 Million Articles in New API – Marshall Kirkpatrick
Traditional media need radical new ways to stay connected with it’s readership, otherwise they will soon find themselves irrelevant. This might be a good step in that radical directionBig Ideas are not as important as Good Ideas – Dare Obasanjo
‘ The problem with “Big Ideas” is that sometimes people get obsessed with how game changing or disruptive their product is instead of focusing on making it the best at what it does ‘Controlling Time: How to deal with infinity – Patrick Kua
Book: Working Effectively with Legacy Code – Tim Stall
This a a book that is on my reading list for quit a while. Gonna read it as soon as I finish Software Project Secrets: Why Software Projects FailExtending Your Personal Brand Without Diluting It – Chris Spagnuolo
Leadership 101: Odds and Ends Grab Bag – Jim Holmes
‘ Sure, you’ve worked hard to build up that team, but the victories and accomplishments the team achieves are the team’s! Yes, you certainly had a part in it, but guess what? Who did the real work? ‘
Thanks for sharing this point that managers all too often forget; it’s funny how some really seem to think that *they* personally did all the grunt workHow to use Ninject with ASP.NET MVC – Simone Chiaretta
‘ In this post we are are going to see how to use the ControllerFactory that delegates to Ninject the creation of your controllers ‘The MVC platform: interacting with the ActionMethodSelectorAttributes – Luis Abreu
Technical Presentations: Be Prepared for Absolute Chaos – Scott Hanselman
All things that can go wrong in a presentation will go wrong
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