LINKBLOG for February 17, 2009
Feb 17th, 2009 by AZuidhof
Business cases – Craig Brown
Since your manager will likely ask “Fine. Can you put that in a business case for me?” when you ask for the latest shiny tool, you better know what should be in thereRunning an IT consultancy without a credit card – Chip Camden
‘ Without depending on credit, what strategies can an IT consultant employ to manage the uneven flow of expenses vs. income? ‘What’s Wrong with Strongly Typed Dataset Designer – Soon Hui
Answering technical questions helpfully – Jon Skeet
Helpful postJetBrains RubyMine provides navigation and refactoring for Javascript : Jeffrey Palermo
Announcing my book: ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Quickly – Maarten Balliauw
‘ It’s been quite a job, but there it is: Packt just announced my very first book on their site. It is titled “ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Quickly” (…)’Multilevel Undo and Redo implementation in c# -Part III (Using Memento Pattern) – Razan Paul
The Mind of the Inventor – Adam Goucher
A reminder that innovation is quickly forgotten these days with media coverage almost completely on the bad shape our economies are currently in. Cutting costs and refrain from innovation is the worst thing one can do, only resulting in fuel being injected in this whole self fulfilling prophecy schemeLearning Erlang – James Avery
The ROI of Software Made Simple – Kirk Evans
Points us to an in fact shocking article by Josh Holmes, Moving From Cost center to Strategic Partner, on how companies measure the Return On Investment on their internal application development.
Best quote: ‘ The way to move from cost center to strategic partner is to start showing value and to start pushing the edge on ideas that will drive a great ROI for the business ‘The History of Microsoft on Channel9 – Brian di Croce
Video time if you cannot get enough of Microsoft. Me? Passing the bottle this timeSpaces in identifier names in C# – Jimmy Bogard
Jimmy has a weird (his own words) trick using AutoHotKey to be able using spaces -you read that right!- in (unit test) method names, for ease of readabilityInnovation Notes: February 17, 2009 – Jason Haley
A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Netcat – Peteris Krumins
Interest in ASP.NET MVC is raising – Simone Chiaretta
‘ …Or at least this is what we can infer from Google Trends ‘Performance killer: Disk I/O – Nathanael Jones
‘ you don’t get the huge performance gains from optimizing CPU and memory use (which is good), but from eliminating I/O calls ‘Your Unit Tests Lie to You – Janusz Gorycki
‘ please, don’t fire your QA department just yet. Their job is still important, even if you unit test ‘
My experience is not that unittests make integration and system testing unnecessary, as Janusz explains, but YMMVDoes Old Code Make You Sick? – Scott Watermasysk
‘ If as a developer you can ever look at code you wrote 6 months ago and do not get a little nausea, it is time to pack it in and go do something else ‘
Indeed. Funny that this also strongly proves that comparing software development to house building does not hold true at all. Ever seen a brick layer or architect have second doubts over their previous efforts?Laying the smack down on memory leaks with the first early access build of ANTS Memory Profiler 5 – Bart Read
Integrating TypeMock with ASP .NET Unit tests – Nizar
‘ if you’ve been scratching your head trying to figure how to develop ASP .NET tests that can work with TypeMock, Ivonna is probably the tool you’ve been waiting for! ‘Building on a SOLID foundation – Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz
Another good recap of the SOLID principles debateInsiders – Bruce Scheier
Nice essay on security issues and how need-to-know comes into play
‘ Security is very much designed to protect against the dishonest minority. And often little things—like disabling access immediately upon termination—can go a long way ‘Passion and Pride – Bil Simser
‘ It may take more time at first to “do the right thing” but please don’t sacrifice good software practices for the sake of time ‘Wit It! – One click Work Item access from TFS Alert Emails. – Greg Duncan
‘ Wit-It! allows you to open work items in various ways without customizing team system event subscription ‘
A real timesaver for heavy TFS usersHow to Create a Professional Logo – Derek Underwood
Some tips that can prove very helpful for unknowing developers not very well versed in the world of design and graphicsEnvironment Based Programming Design Pattern – Bamboozled
‘ Code executes in an environment that provides it with all its needs ‘Herding Developers to Lunch – Martin Woodward
‘ n every organization I have worked, getting a group together to go to lunch is usually a delay prone and complex logistical exercise ‘
Martin offers some tips to make reduce friction
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