LINKBLOG for March 9, 2009
Mar 9th, 2009 by AZuidhof
TF03177: Team Project Creation Failed – Josh Twist
‘ I ran into this problem with TFS recently and it had me stumped. Why could I no longer create projects? ‘Fair Share Detects Content Plagiarism via RSS Feeds – Amit Agarwal
If you don’t like other people to run away with your contentScreencast: Dive Into ASP.NET MVC RC2 – Elijah Manor
How to implement loops in FitNesse test fixtures – Gojko Adzic
Suck At Estimation? Use The 2 Day Crutch Method – Max Pool
‘ Here in lies the answer, better estimation comes from estimating smaller bits of work ‘Beginning Mocking With Moq 3 – Part 1 – Justin Etheredge
‘ In this post we have looked at creating a mock class, tell it that a particular method will be called, and then verify that it actually happened ‘
Justin has an elaborate post on Moq 3, along the way explaining how to start with mocking in generalAzure Thermostat Service – Steve Smith
FubuMVC From Scratch – Part 2 – Ryan Kelley
*** Why are we so cheap with software? – Jimmy Bogard
‘ So while developers are cheap, so too are our archaic purchasing departments, who have ridiculous training budgets but balk at buying a tool that offers an immediate increase in productivity ‘
So happy that this pain is shared by Jimmy ! On so many occasions I notice that it takes endless arguing, pleading and in the end being send away to write a business case, all for software costing as much as 200-300 euro’s/bucks. Every time it is explained that people cost real money heads nod, but when it comes to paying time, companies don’t mind wasting $50-100/hour without second thought. Weird.ViEmu and ReSharper, or “How to tone down your highlights” – Kyle Baley
‘ ViEmu and ReSharper are not quite best friends yet. They’re tolerant of each other and try to stay out of each others’ way but I hit some issues after installing ViEmu ‘
Simple but nice if you don’t know them yetDesigning a document database – Ayende Rahien
‘ A while ago I started experimenting with building my own document DB, based on the concepts that Couch DB have ‘
Which was not really that complicated, at least for someone with Ayende’s skillz. Did you know by the way that Windows contains something like this natively, the ?CCD Red Degree Practice – Apply Simple Refactorings – Michael Minutillo
Some basic refactorings explained70 New, Useful AJAX And JavaScript Techniques – Noura Yehia
SubControllers and ViewModel – Matt Hinze
Sell Software, Not Shelfware – Lawrence Walsh
Sending the Wrong Message – Chris Brogan
‘ A line isn’t always a bad thing.
What unintentional messages are you sending? ‘Slack – Seth Godin
‘ What can you build over the next year that will take time now and pay off later? How can you invest the slack to build a marketing asset that you’ll own forever? ‘
In other words: use your slack wisely! Not only freelancers, but also wage slaves have their slack every now and thenIf your business disappeared tomorrow… – Clemens Rettich
‘ No one wants to close their doors. But let’s imagine the unthinkable: how would your customers respond if you did have to close up shop? Imagine two scenarios… ‘How do you build trust as a leader? – Raven Young
‘ I read an article titled How the Best Leaders Build Trust that had some interesting insights for project leaders on the fuzzy subject of trust ‘Strong passwords and lastpass.com – Barry Dorrans
‘ How may of you practice what you preach? Run as a non-administrative user? Use separate, strong passwords for all your internet accounts? ‘
errrrrr……..Why I’m not signing the Software Craftsmanship manifesto… Yet – Sebastien Lambla
The new Software Craftsmanship manifesto elicits different reactionsCool Whitepaper: Code Access Security in SharePoint for Administrators – Kirk Evans
‘ Code Access Security (CAS) can be a difficult concept for developers to wrap their heads around, so I imagine that for non-developers CAS is probably a complete mind twist ‘Not all quality is free. But it’s cheaper than you think – Mendelt Siebenga
.NET 4 Will Not Have a Command Line Parser – Jonathan Allen
‘ (…) after all these years there isn’t a standard parser available .NET, leaving developers to reinvent this common pattern over and over again ‘If you only had one minute to pitch your story – Garr Reynolds
‘ if you were asked to make a one-minute video presentation for your dream job (or business idea, etc.), how would you do it? ‘
Video pitches for the Dreamworld job (you know, the live-on-island-for-6-months ad campaign)
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