LINKBLOG for February 14, 2009
Feb 14th, 2009 by AZuidhof
The Curious Case of Software Quality – Keyvan Nayyeri
‘ I can simply conclude that with knowledge and knowing the principles you don’t miss anything, but without them you’re walking on a dead end! ‘Fluent NHibernate binary drops – Chad Myers
Coding: Assertions in constructors – Mark Needham
‘ I suppose this is a limitation of the Java/C# type system that you can’t prevent null values being passed into a constructor or that you can even have a null value in the first place ‘DDD: Entities and Value Objects – Casey Charlton
‘ Don’t confuse Entities and Value Objects with Reference Types and Value Types, they sound similar but bear only a passable resemblance ‘Why We Conduct Bug Bashes – Steve Rowe
‘ Bug bashes are a time when everyone on the team is asked to spend all of their time conducting exploratory testing ‘
Lots of video resourcesSo You Think You’re An Admin? – Jacob Proffitt
Lean and Agile, Marriage Made in Heaven or Oxymoron? – Amr Elssamadisy
Software Development for Dummies – Mark Nijhof
‘ Anticipating change is hard; change is something humans by nature don’t handle very well. So anticipating to something like that is even harder ‘“COBOL the Barbarian: Multi-Language .NET Snippet Compiler” – WPF Application with COBOL as the code behind… – Greg Duncan
Chapter 3 – Understanding Controllers – Stephen Walther
Convenient Synchronization with Mesh and DropBox – Jason Young
Team Consultants – Mitch Denny
‘ (…) you need to be aware of whether you or someone else on your team has this combination of good technical skills and introverted nature which is masked by learned consulting abilities ‘First attempts with Gallio – Andre Loker
‘ it is a platform to uniformly run unit tests from whatever unit test framework (MbUnit, NUnit, MSTest etc.) you use ‘
I was referred to Gallio by a colleague. This second recommendation after I heard for it the first time yesterday makes it even higher on my todo list10 Tips for Starting a Home Business in a Recession – Dane Carlson
Top 10 Outlook Boosters – Kevin Purdy
See Uncle Bob live in this recent footageTurn Twitter Into Your Personal Assistant – Benjamin Nowack
Deconstructing “blu” – a new WPF Twitter client from thirteen23 – Hanselminutes #149
blu looks nice, but don’t feel the urge to install yet another app. Tweetdesk serves me just fine, thank you very muchPeter’s Prognosis and Peter’s Paralysis: Timeless Wisdom from The Peter Principle – Bob Sutton
Cloud Computing Is Highly Overrated – Rajiv Popat
Create a dashboard in Excel, pulliing ‘ (…) data from a work item query to showcase some of these metrics, including bug counts, incoming/fix/close rates, bug backlogs, bug lifetimes, and more! ‘Elevator pitching your release – Craig Brown
‘ It’s a useful excercise to be able to wrap up your release into an elevator pitch. It helps you focus ‘Video explanation of jQuery – Simone Chiaretta
Simone points us to a big, big screencast (1h45m) on everything jQuery. But if you want, you can just grab the slidesQueue Inversion Week – Hal Pomeranz
‘ we looked at the project schedule and identified what looked like a “slack” week and declared it to be “Queue Inversion Week.” ‘
via Twitter – Mike Cottmeyer
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