LINKBLOG for March 5, 2009
Mar 5th, 2009 by AZuidhof
WCF: Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel with authority – Josh Twist
Transactions and the check-in dance – Jimmy Bogard
‘ The check-in dance is transactional, where it all succeeds or it all fails. If the automated build fails, we roll back the previous commit ‘The Cult of Done Manifesto – Bob Sutton
New manifesto with insightful statements like ‘ People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right ‘. Now the only ones not to agree with this are those with clean hands, obviouslyGratuitous Use of Linq – Jacob Proffitt
Data Dude Day – Greg Duncan
‘ After spending some quality time with VSTS Database Professional Edition yesterday I have to say, it’s that time, it’s Data Dude Time ‘The power of ICommand – Rudi Grobler
Tidy Up Your Xaml And Code Behind, Use UserControls Inside Templates – Amit
Alt.net: Alienation by adoption – Ayende Rahien
Ayende is awaiting alt.net’s “crossing the chasm” momentPreview of Code Contract Tools Now Available – CLR Team Blog
Quality is Dead #1: The Hypothesis – James Bach
‘ Quality is dead in computing (…) know it’s dead, too, don’t you? You long ago stopped expecting anything to just work on your desktop, right ‘10 Awesome Things I Remember About Computers – Scott Hanselman
‘ Here’s a totally random, completely useless collection of things I remember doing/accomplishing/working on while I was “coming up” in computers ‘Quickpost: /JBIG2Decode Trigger Trio – Didier Stevens
Spooky stuff ‘ So how is it possible to exploit this vulnerability in a PDF document without having the user open this document? The answer lies in Windows Explorer Shell Extensions ‘50 Stunning Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials – Andrew Gibson
For your typographic needsThe Greasy Pole – Tony Davis
‘ Why do we value management skills more highly, anyway, when a good programmer will make just as much of a contribution to an organization as a good manager? ‘
Good question. I’ve seen too many developers turned manager grudgingly or only for the money. Both cases lead to less than average managersCan Your Website Handle Sudden Increase in Traffic? – Amit Agarwal
‘ Is your web server ready to handle this sudden surge in traffic without going down? ‘
You might consider testing this, there’s even an online load tester that will simulate 50 users for free (and more in the paid version of courseThe Hipster PDA Keychain – Adam Pash
‘ Just attach a binder clip to your keychain, cut up some notecards, and you’re good to go ‘
The simple things that make you happyThe Product Owner Team – Mike Cottmeyer
‘ Many teams will insert a Business Analyst as proxy in an attempt to give the team the day to day direction that they desperately need. The problem with this approach is ‘ …read onThe Problems with WCF and the Using Block – Jonathan Allen
‘ The corner-stones of resource management in .NET are IDisposable and the Using block. (…) one has to wonder how Microsoft managed to fail so miserably with the WCF framework ‘Is TDD Too Hard? – Lee Brandt
On Tagging, Part 1 – Howard Dierking
‘ at a high level, there are 2 primary ways that people currently go about these tasks – taxonomy and search ‘
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