LINKBLOG for March 4, 2009
Mar 4th, 2009 by AZuidhof
Choose .Concat() over .Union() if possible – Frans Bouma
UIEtips: In Which a Concept Model Makes Me Giddy – Jared Spool
‘ It turns out that one of the differences between the successful teams and the struggling teams is their use of diagrams and maps ‘Custom Authorization in WCF – Vietanh154
Jenga Programming – Erik van Brakel
‘ To summarize, JDD is programming without a solid plan, adding and removing things without a lot of thought ‘Different Kind Of Factory? – Davy Brion
Top 50 New Software Development Books – Jurgen Appelo
Great list of new software development books. I’ve must have been reading avidly the last couple of years, because I already finished 4 of the top 10, and planning on reading some more soon. For exampe Jurgen’s no. 1 Dreaming in Code is a pearl on the listProcrastination and the Bikeshed Effect – Jeff Atwood
‘ what’s the hardest thing you have to do every day? Deciding what to ignore, so you can stop procrastinating and get stuff done ‘Three kinds of meetings – Seth Godin
‘ There are only three kinds of classic meetings (…) PLEASE don’t confuse them ‘
gist: always think before implementing something you do not need *now*10 Ways to Get a License for Inaction – Rajesh Setty
10 Tips for Working With Clients Remotely: Part 1 – Mindy Wagner
How to start Visual Studio programmatically – Kirill Osenkov
Suggestions for Microsoft – Engage the Developer Community better – Craig Bailey
‘ (…) it’s pretty simple to see how Microsoft can improve their reputation significantly and foster deep developer satisfaction: Find out what they want, and make sure they can get to it! ‘Having trouble getting things done? – Eric D. Brown
‘ I ran across an easy task tracking system that is working well for me and may help you get more done ‘Low Tech Rituals – Janusz Gorycki
‘ Still working the old fashioned way with whiteboards, spreadsheets and outdated software? ‘
Janusz explains why this absolutely a viable idea, even in this day and ageBuilding Domain Specific Languages in C# – Neal Ford
‘ Domain specific languages have been around since Lisp, and abound in the Unix world of “little languages.” A convergence of research has recently brought domain specific languages to the forefront of both language and API design ‘Tech startups start with a question. What’s yours? – Trephine
‘ I never made any progress towards advancing the state of the art until I asked myself a seemingly simple question (…) ‘ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate 2 – Phil Haack
Ñew MVC bits! Biggest change being that setup now requires .NET 3.5 SP1Saying yes to product requests – Alex Miller
‘ If a product manager or someone else asks you for a feature, instead of saying no, say yes, but then you must figure out how to make that work ‘Slick inline trace logging in ASP.NET – Jason Young
‘ make it extremely simple to view the trace log for a page while viewing that page. Ultimately, we’ll end up with something that looks like this ‘
Slick indeedChapter 6 – Understanding HTML Helpers – Stephen Walther
Cancelling tasks: Thread.interrupt() fragility – Fabrizio Giudici
Managed Extensibility Framework – DevTopics
Visual Studio Silent Crash with Designer – Steve Smith
‘ (…) whenever you try to open a web form or master page (which by default will open the design view) ‘[security through absurdity]: Security Vulnerability of the Week(?) #1: SQL Injection
‘ What has puzzled me is how often I run into pockets of developers who lack familarity of common software vulnerabilities ‘ And don’t forget to check out the already 2 years old SANS Unforgivable Vulnerabilities[PDF] to see what is expected of you as a developer97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know – The Book
Great book available in dead tree version, but also completely online. 97 pieces of insight from lots and lots of architects. The first one seems interesting enough: “Don’t put your resume ahead of the requirements“NDepend is a must-have – Robert W. Anderson
Triggering events on UI components (WinForms) – Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo
‘ When it comes to testing a new control I can just create a new nested interface in my Events class, add public versions of the protected methods that I want to invoke (…) and then I’m off to the races!! ‘Do Loop Until 0: Agile – Big A or little a? – Brent Strange
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