LINKBLOG for March 2, 2009
Mar 2nd, 2009 by AZuidhof
Where Would You Be Today Without Social Media Tools? – Dan Schawbel
DVCS and DAGs, Part 1 – Eric Sink
Eric can’t get enough of gitBook Review: Silverlight 2 In Action – Davy Brion
Typemock NUnit Results to TeamCity – Stephen Wright
What are YOU going to do about it? – Roy Osherove
‘ For me, ALT.NET finally means something I can put into more coherent thoughts: Personal Integrity ‘
In this refreshing post amidst enormous amounts of bile and bitching elsewhere, Roy argues that there is always something you can do to improve your situationBuilding Domain Specific Languages with Boo – Full book now available – Ayende Rahien
in EAP, mind you, but completePublishing Builds to a Deep Drop Location – Martin Woodward
‘ Nasty things start to happen on Windows systems when you start having paths that are longer than 254 characters ‘Product-Owner: Are you a chicken? – Peter Stevens
‘ As Product Owner, you are either the customer or the conduit to the customer ‘Is improv the key to innovative teams? – Chris Spagnuolo
Web Work 101: 10 Apps You Can’t Do Without – Aliza Sherman
Aliza Sherman*** Development Psychology, Technical debt and The next feature syndrome – Patrick Smacchia
‘ IMHO you should always avoid the temptation to start a v2 from scratch. Take the time to re-code or re-factor ‘
Great post that I can relate to. Every time you build up technical debt, you HAVE to pay it back or doom will be upon youASP.NET – YSlow and ASP.NET: 100 points “A” grade is possible – Viktar Karpach
YSlow is (…) Firefox add-on integrated with Firebug. It analyzes web pages and tells you why they are slow ‘The Complex Manifesto for Software Development – Jurgen Appelo
‘ It is my hope that all software developers and managers learn to understand that there’s no need to flame each other over methods, frameworks, principles, and practices ‘
But on the other hand, isn’t flaming just the proof of the fact that software development is an immature field. My thesis is that the flaming will cease when maturity is reached. This will take another whileThings to CodeGenerate besides the Data Access Layer – Tim Stall
‘ while one of the most popular things to automatically generate is the data access layer, there’s a lot more to CodeSmith than just wrapping database ‘Cross-cut Logging – Ilka Guigova
I’m listening – Eric Brechner
Midyear career discussion time: ‘ How’d it go? How will it go? For you? For your manager? Well, that depends ‘
‘ If you seriously want to continue to place business logic in stored procedures, eschew OOP in favor of procedural code, (…) it’s your business and none of mine ‘
Jeremy has had it with trying to “get people aboard” and argues that we better raise the bar for our own sake; everyone interested will follow – or not. Me? I’m wondering on which side I feel more at home. There may be something to it, but just thinking that the “others” will (auto)magically follow doesn’t cut it. We still have to reach out and teach the ones who are struggling to improve themselves but don’t succeed so far. Leaving them behind is the wrong path to follow imho. What do you think?
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