LINKBLOG for February 9, 2009
Feb 9th, 2009 by AZuidhof
The Real Reason You Didn’t Learn Jack Sh*t In College – Max Pool
I have been going through a lot of self reflection as of late, and as you can imagine there are a number of things that haunt my current psyche.JavaScript, 5 ways to call a function – Sergio Pereira
.NET Web Services Fail on Unicode Control chars – Rinat Abdullin
ViEmu’s Keybindings Dialog – Tomas Restrepo
not really a Vi guy myself, I’m still attracted to the halo surrounding itThe Next Level of Code Analysis using ‘NDepend’: An Interview with Patrick Smacchia – Suprotim Agarwal
50 Useful JavaScript Tools | Developer’s Toolbox – Jacob Gube
Shut Up and Go Create Something – Justin Etheredge
‘ There is something comforting to humans to point at someone who has created something amazing and say that they are a truly amazing person (…) ‘Quality is what I work for – Mark Needham
‘ Certainly delivering value to customers in a timely manner is important but if we’re not producing something that we’re proud to have written then I think we’re doing ourselves and our customer a disservice ‘Sprint! – Seth Godin
‘ The best way to overcome your fear of creativity, brainstorming, intelligent risk taking or navigating a tricky situation might be to sprint ‘
Wonder what Sprint Seth had in mind hereHow to Use Tweetdeck: The Ultimate Twitter Client – Chris Spagnuolo
Tweetdeck is a great client, but looking through Chris’s review I can only say “me needs more screen real estate!”Developing for the iPhone – Chris Patterson
*** The Broken Windows Theory in Software – Brian di Croce
‘ Remember: Only YOU can prevent broken windows in your software project from spreading like cancer. You have access to a grand vast of online resources and tools to help you fix those broken windows before it’s too late. Do you have the attitude to do as such? ‘
Like the attitude!James Shore: Kaizen and Kaikaku
As I said, go learn some JapaneseThe WebOptimizer class – Mads Kristensen
Gotcha with HostingEnvironment.MapPath() – Maurice de Beijer
Right Tool for the Right Job – Part 2 – Sean Feldman
‘ This time I will compare Visual Studio .NET 2008 (VS) with TestDriven.NET (TD.NET) for another functionality – quick code execution for evaluation purposes ‘Building multi tenant applications with ASP.NET MVC and Windsor: Part 2 – business logic differences – Bart Reyserhove
‘ In this part I’ll explain how you could deal with differences in business logic ‘P&P Guidance – Positive Progress – Colin Jack
Enable Windows Search Indexing on Folders – Sasha Goldshtein
‘ The following code can determine whether a location is indexed ‘A Twitter Decision – Michael Lopp
‘ For me, a tweet is still a note I tie to a balloon, which I let go and think, “Who is going to read that one?” ‘Project management in agile Smart projects – Sander Hoogendoorn
My Agile Team: On The (Scrum) Road Again – Matt Grommes
Matt starts a new series on how to do Agile. If it is as interesting as the last one you can make up for some nice readingDesign Flaws, Hernias, and Anemic Quality – Scott Bellware
‘ (…) while we put a lot of effort into finding and resolving runtime defects, design flaws can drain more money and value from businesses than the runtime defects that consume the better part of quality assurance efforts and attention ‘Creating a SitePoint-like sliding popup in jQuery – Karlagius
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Hey Arjan, thanks for the kind words about my articles. I really appreciate it. I certainly hope you find the upcoming stuff as good as the previous.
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