LINKBLOG for February 20, 2009
Feb 20th, 2009 by AZuidhof
How to Add Structure to an Idea-Packed Day – Glen Stansberry
“One Team, One Aim”. It’s All About The Journey, Not The Goal – Derick Bailey
Marketing During an Economic Meltdown – Adam Goucher
‘ Now is the most important time to be innovative ‘ Can relate to this. The trick will be to truly innovate, while not spending too much of those valuable bucksLove and Fluent NHibernate – Chris Brandsma
‘ It is refactor friendly, no xml files to maintain, and I swear it is less typing to create. It is a wonderful addition to the NHibernate family ‘Why catch(Exception)/empty catch is bad – CLR Team Blog
‘ C# turns an empty catch statement into catch(System.Object) which means you end up catching all exceptions—even non-CLS compliant exceptions ‘
Though VB.NET behaves a little better, there is still overwhelming evidence you should not just swallow everything and think you’re safeTop 10 Activities of the Product Owner Jack Milunsky
LINQ to SQL – not quite dead yet… – Marc Gravell
Azure – Performance, IoC, and Instances – Jason Young
Satellite Feed Hacking – Your Data Isn’t Private! – Darknet
So you can grab all kinds of interesting unencrypted stuff directly from those shiny metal thingies that are orbiting up thereBalancing Security and Usability in Authentication – Bruce Schneier
‘ Balancing security and usability is hard, and many organizations get it wrong. But it’s also evolving; organizations needing to tighten their security continu[ally?]Challenge: Do You Truly Understand This Code? – Davy Brion
i>’ (…) do you guys truly understand this code without any sort of “why i did this” comment in the code? ‘WatiN: Web Application Testing in .NET – Al Tenhundfeld
Controlling Time: Threaded Execution – Patrick Kua
Unit testing threaded software can sometimes prove slightly cumbersome. Many of the examples on the net often show examples that tie a number of responsibilities togetherMuch Ado About Monads – List Edition – Matthew Podwysocki
*** Software Consulting Customer’s Bill of Rights – Jeffrey Palermo
‘ A customer has the right to be challenged. If a customer gets exactly what was asked, but it does not solve the problem, the customer still has nothing ‘
Jeffrey offers an original take on building software: the…tadaaaa… customer. You know, the one paying your bills10 Feature Requests For Google – Richard MacManus
If you ask us outsiders, we come up with lots of possible improvements25 Rock Solid Tips to Supervise Offshore Development – Bas de Baar
Thought outsourcing was on it’s way back, but apparently not. Bas has lots of great tips to make it all work instead of ending up in flamesSoft-deletes are bad, m’kay? – Frans Bouma
Frans Bouma of Stored procedures are bad, m’kay? fame is back with a vengeanceThe MVC framework: using the IDataErrorInfo interface – Luis Abreu
How to pick a GREAT Software Engineer – Mike Peters
Even this Einstein quote alone is worth a link here ‘ A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it ‘20 Steps to Better Wireframing - Think Vitamin
Some good pieces of advice… ‘ Make it Functional, Not Pretty ‘If you are still wondering how fast is ADO.NET vs ADODB – Simone Chiaretta
For all those thinking old skool programming used to be fasterMake sure you use the tools at your disposal – Dave Kean
Official Google Doc’s API for .Net, Java and Ruby Released… – Greg Duncan
…‘ ownloading those Google Doc’s, and converting them to different formats, is now just an API call away ‘How to become a masterful presenter with Nick Morgan, author of Trust Me – Pamela Slim
The secret driven-development/design acronyms – Damien Gard
‘ We’ve all heard of BDD, DDD and TDD but that still leaves 23 letters unaccounted for ‘
Great stuff, via Max PoolTotT: Partial Mocks using Forwarding Objects – Google Testing Blog
‘ A Partial Mock is a mock that uses some behavior from a real object and some from a mock object. It is useful when you need bits of both ‘Uncle Bob Martin, this time with feeling – Hanselminutes Podcast 150
In this NEW episode, Scott sits down with Robert C. Martin as Uncle Bob (@unclebobmartin) tries to put the SOLID commandments principle into some perspective
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