LINKBLOG for February 10, 2009
Feb 10th, 2009 by AZuidhof
Mocks vs. Stubs – James Kovacs
Why is User Experience Design important – Andries van der Meulen
Lazy loading using Ninject – Maurice de Beijer
Always Question the Source (aka “Don’t Lock on Type Objects”) – OJ Reeves
You might be a great hacker if you… – JD Conley
‘ have ever gone to visit a friend and proceeded to ignore them because you must finish that stupid puzzle they had on their coffee table before putting it down ‘
Don’t do this all too often, as you would be out of non-hacker friends quicklyConclusion – A Response to “Traps & Pitfalls of Agile Development – A Non-Contrarian View” – Chris Taylor
Conclusion of a 5 part seriesQuickly Setting Up And Using NHibernate’s Second Level Cache – Davy Brion
Bridging the Communications Gap – Adam Goucher
review of Gojko Adzic’s book with the same titleUse JQuery to clean up ASP.NET Web Forms markup – Jason Grundy
The MVC platform: the new anti forgery token – Luis Abreu
Today Luis talks about a feature that is new in the ASP.NET AJAX Release Candidate:
‘ The idea is render a hidden token which is validated during post back, ensuring that your app is protected against cross-site request forgery ‘WebForms or MVC? What about the third option? – Mads Kristensen
‘ Basically, the ZeroForm approach is to use ASP.NET like you always have but without a
Refactoring Not a Substitute for Design – Chris Sims
Fluent NHibernate Has a Wiki – Jon Arild Tørresdal
Executing Functions Registered Using RegisterExpandoAttribute – Mohammad Azam
10 Web Typography Rules Every Designer Should Know – Thursday Bram
IDisposable and WCF – Steve Smith
‘ (…) one of the things that we’ve quickly noticed is that WCF is, for whatever reason, not compatible with the usual best practice of wrapping IDisposable objects with a using() {…} block ‘“The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend” – Ten lessons, so far, toward becoming a Visual Studio Debugging Ninja – Greg Duncan
Some jewels are left for a long time before discovered by Arjan’s World. This big debugging series is one of them. Now I know some of you purists are screaming “Debugging? We don’t do no stinking debugging”. This is for the rest of youHow to use Ninject to inject dependencies into ASP.NET MVC ActionFilters – Simone Chiaretta
‘ (…) the problem with ActionFilters is that they are .NET attributes, and thus they are instantiated directly by the .NET framework using reflection. This means that you are not in control of the creation process ‘Foundations: Error Handling In Workflows – Matt Milner
via Igor MoochnickSilverlight is the future but the future isn’t Silverlight – Scott Koon
‘ There’s a reason that developers haven’t written these types of RIA’s using Flash for the past 10 years even though it has been possible. It’s not the lack of tooling, it’s the plugin ‘Subtle design: snapshot cardinalities – Andre Loker
‘ Being the DDD guy that you are, you talk to a clerk at the library and she tells you that the system under development should save the fact that a book is lent out by a specific reader ‘Building a Simple 3D Engine with Silverlight – Vladimir Bodurov
from scratch in C#, explaining how to do all the matrix operation stuffHanselman List of Podcasts for .NET Programmers – Scott Hanselman
Bringing you up-to-date in the world of podcastsDomain Driven Design: A Step by Step Guide – Casey Charlton
‘ As a book and methodology, DDD is an excellent way to approach complex software problems, and make them far more understandable and manageable. As a buzzword, DDD is in danger of being corrupted like many other good software practices ‘CommonServiceLocator for MEF, a service is a service. – Glenn Block
IofC on Azure – Scott Watermasysk
Cost? – Greg Young
‘ We have come to a very very very important question. What is the cost of Command Query Separation and Messaging in general in comparison to say a more traditional architecture ‘Fluent Validation With ASP.NET MVC and Db4o – Tuna Toksoz
Using jQuery with ASP .NET – Xun Ding

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