LINKBLOG for February 25, 2009
Feb 25th, 2009 by AZuidhof
Polymorphism in Expression trees – Jimmy Bogard
‘ While trying to be extra-clever today, I found a potential nasty issue when dealing with strongly-typed reflection ‘Notion Tools for Team System v1.0 released – Anthony Borton
Announcing TeamCity.CodeBetter.com – James Kovacs
Good Tools Are Not Agile, Not Customizable, but Adaptable – Jurgen Appelo
‘ There’s a type of resource that is often neglected when we talk about agile, self-organizing teams, and getting things done ‘Evidence Based Scheduling – Glen Alleman
based on an idea that Joel Spolsky once elaborated onWTF IT Stories #6: The Unnecessary Elephant – Andrew Wulf
‘ never mind that it would cost $400,000 plus $100,000 for a consultant to set it up ‘
Funny how those making decisions and those holding the truth (we!) live in such vastly different worlds sometimes7 Interface Design Techniques to Simplify and De-clutter Your Interfaces – Dmitry
Code Contracts for .NET Is Available for Download – Abel Avram
‘ (…) the .NET implementation of the Design by Contract concept ‘C#: Fun with extension-methods – Yngve B. Nilsen
8 Well-Designed Sites and What You Can Learn From Them – AshPringle
Good tips to keep your visitors interested in what you have to offerThe Prime Number Shitting Bear – Alkulukuja Paskova Karhu
Funny though a tad useless stuff via Need a Prime Number? – DevTopicsJavaScript, inner functions and private members – Sergio Pereira
‘ part of a series called JavaScript Demystified ‘Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight v2.0 (PRISM) – Joe Stagner
‘ The wizards over in the Microsoft patterns & practices group have been at it again and released …. ‘re: Software Craftsmanship, Dogma and Pragmatism – Corey Haines
Corey takes an interesting stance (in fact he takes more, read the full post!) on the Craftmanship/quality debate: there is a place for both ‘IKEA’ and ‘Amish Craftsman’ software. So really two different worlds/shops where you go to according to your needs. Spot on or nonsense?Extensions for the Microsoft AJAX Framework – Ruben Buniatyan
‘ Provides cryptographic services including secure encoding and decoding of data, as well as hashing and random number generation, and new methods for JavaScript native objects ‘10 Ways to Beat the “Can’t Get No Satisfaction” Syndrome – Leo Babauta
‘ Are you feeling like life isn’t exciting enough? That maybe you’re missing out on something (…) Turns out you’re not alone ‘Open Thread: How Much Do You Trust Your Web Apps? – Simon Mackie
Yesterday’s GMail outage gets people thinking…. ‘ With a proliferation of web apps offering to meet our every business need and the inexorable rise of cloud computing, are we investing too much trust in them? ‘
This might save me 2-3 minutes a day on an especially slow but important machine
via Scott WatermasyskEntrepreneurs to End the Crisis? – Scott Watermasysk
‘ Forcing the creation of jobs in areas we are doing fine is not a long term solution. I would much rather see us invest in ideas and allow them to drive the rest ‘Product Managers and Product Owners – Mike Cottmeyer
‘ Last post we explored what roles fit nicely in our existing Scrum roles. We also identified a few that didn’t ‘CIOs-turned-IT consultants offer tips on striking out on your own – Mary Weilage
‘ Starting your own IT consultancy can be fraught with challenges. Here’s some practical advice about finding your niche, setting up shop, and minding your finances ‘
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