LINKBLOG for February 24, 2009
Feb 24th, 2009 by AZuidhof
The past, present and future of User Experience Design – Andries van der Meulen
Don’t follow it really, but UX has it’s own path of development, as expected.NET Reflector Saved their Bacon: Chris Kapilla’s Story – Bob Cramblitt
‘ She was suddenly left without the source code, and very much wished she wasn’t! ‘
What better moment to discover .NET Reflector than after you lost your original source code and did not have a backup? Well, before loosing the source…XML Notepad 2007 is a Simple, Smart Editor for Web Code – Kevin Purdy
Converting First Time Visitors to Loyal Readers – Darren Rowse
Tips from blog marketing guru Darren RowseThoughts on the Code Contracts Preview for .NET 4.0 – K. Scott Allen
DDD – Bounded Context – Yves Goeleven
Visual Basic 6.0 Still Widely Used – Al Tenhundfeld
‘ 87% of companies currently use VB6 – similar to finding above but without the maintenance focus ‘
Bottom line: It is easier to build software than to get rid of itTake back the economy – Pamela Slim
‘ Then I realized that massive change happens one person at a time ‘Now, Discover Your Strengths – Steve Rowe
‘ (…) the title of the follow-up to First, Break All the Rules by Marcus Buckingham ‘Overloading Constructors – Chris Eargle
‘ If you’re using code generation, it’s a good idea to remember that you can call the default constructor for a class from an overloaded constructor ‘Decade of Agile, Dawn of Lean – Scott Bellware
regarding the Agile > Scrum > Lean evolutionMeasuring Business Value in Agile Software Development – Kelly Waters
Joining “IE6: Do NOT want!” campaign – Simone Chiaretta
I’m covered!
‘ There’s a fantastic webcast series on Visual Studio Team System that our group is sponsoring. The content looks incredible ‘Closures in C#: Variable Scoping and Value Types vs Reference Types – Derick Bailey
Test types and Continous Integration – Laila Bougria
‘ this post gives a nice overview of what tests to put in what build within a continuous integration process ‘Book review: LINQ in Action – Jan Van Ryswyck
Use IDispatchMessageFormatter and IClientMessageFormatter to Customize Messages in WCF – Keyvan Nayyeri
Hardware Giveaway: 5,000 Comments Challenge! – Smashing Magazine
swag, swag!Leveraging ILMerge to simplify deployment and your users experience – Daniel Cazzulino
‘ ILMerge is one of those little-known gems that are an absolute must-have once you know how to apply them effectively to scenarios you didn’t even think about ‘A method for providing software unlock keys – Rick Hansen
6 Ways To Beat Any Project Planning – Bas de Baar
Great post from the Project Shrink on how we are surrounded by clueless project managers who’s only job is to produce weekly updated Gantt charts, and then think everything is going swell. We know better; unfortunately, since sometimes it seems even better to live in ignorance
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