LINKBLOG for March 8, 2009
Mar 8th, 2009 by AZuidhof
DDD: Bounded Contexts -Mark Needham
20 Reasons to use VSTS 2008 as your Automation Framework – Brent Strange
A Few NHibernate Tips – Billy McCafferty
How Do I Learn – Jan Van Ryswyck
Jan Van Ryswyck6 CIO Tools for Managing IT Risk – Andy Blumenthal
NGEN is Love, if you’re running your .Net applications via Citrix or Terminal Services – Greg Duncan
Quality: It’s alive! It’s ALIVE! – Robert C. Martin
‘ We don’t want our users posting blogs – as James did – crying that they HATE us. We want our users to be astonished by the elegance and simplicity of our creations ‘
Which gives me the opportunity to bring the new Software Craftsmanship Manifesto, a culmination of discussion on the software_craftsmanship mail list.DDD: The Beginning of My Sample Application – Casey Charlton
Locating all the Tools that go in my Toolbox – Ryan Kelley
Ryan lists the specs for his sofware development hardware and software toolsContinuous Integration with CruiseControl.net – Dorothy
‘ Discusses the advantages of continuous integration going into some detail on automating unit tests and documentation. Includes example build files and configuration ‘MIT’s Introduction to Algorithms, Lectures 20 and 21: Parallel Algorithms – Peteris Krumins
Hosting a Wcf Windows service with the Castle Wcffacility – Paul Cowan
Introducing ADO.NET Data Services 1.5 – Jonathan Allen
‘ ADO.NET Data Services is a framework for developing REST-style interfaces for working with collections of structured data ‘
first CTP is availableThere are no bad design decisions… – Dare Obasanjo
Interesting story where we all can learn something on what happens when ‘two smart people with contradictory goals’ happens…
‘ (…) an example of how differently people can view the same incident and how it relates to making design decisions when trying to ship a software project ‘A Quiet Conversation about DDD and Data First Design – Kathleen Dollard
From gatekeepers to enablers – Sebastien Lambla
‘ You’re now in a situation where each team has built walls around it to enforce any phase transition through gatekeepers ‘
Sebastien hits the nail on the proverbial head on the situation unavoidably taking place when organizations are growing, thereby becoming more professional. A good thing in itself but not without dangerAnders Hejlsbeg on the C# 4.0 and 5.0 – Janathan Allen
Anders on the futureIntroducing the Generic Extension Methods Project – Payton Byrd
‘ More than one team has created a Helper class with an IsNullOrEmpty(string) : bool method. Now with the Generic Extension Methods Project (GEM) you don’t have to! ‘My Silverlight 3 Wish List – Brian Genisio
Presentation: Refactoring Databases – Amr Elssamadisy
Database development and refactoring is lagging behind compared to it’s “object” counterpart. This presentation goes in detail how to bridge the gapManifesto for Software Craftsmanship – Mark Nijhof
New manifesto in town focussing on individual craftsmanship ‘ As aspiring Software Craftsmen we are raising the bar of professional software development by practicing it and helping others learn the craft ‘Implementing a WCF service firewall part II of N – Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz

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