LINKBLOG for March 13, 2009
Mar 13th, 2009 by AZuidhof
3 Stereotypical Types of Software Labor – Ethan Vizitei
Kirill’s Whitespace Guidelines for C# – Kirill Osenkov
Teams are the Building Blocks of Agile Organizations – Mike Cottmeyer
‘ We’ve got to stop thinking about how we are going to resource level across teams… or how to optimize the utilization of individuals within teams ‘What Makes Code Unbearable to Work With – CodeZest
‘ Tell the business tough, I need some time to code well and test my damn code. The business CAN wait ‘ Amen to that!Convert base type to derived type – Joe Enos
‘ .NET method to convert an object into a derived type ‘Making your idea matter – Havi Brooks
‘ The implementation of an idea is more important than the idea itself ‘
via Shrink Reccomends (feed) Funny how this pisses people off: the whole idea of a professional is to have ideas the whole day long, only to dismiss 95% of it, imho. Only the best ones survive and that’s perfectly OKMix: Getting my head around Oslo, M and MGrammar – Scott Hanselman
Elevation Power Toys and VS 2008 Admin Command Prompt Here – Travis Illig
How I would match faked method’s arguments if I was TypeMock Isolator – Vagif Abilov
‘ I enjoy compactness and clarity of TypeMock Isolator AAA syntax. But it still lacks certain features in comparison with the original RecordExpectation-based syntax ‘ReSharper Helper – AutoHotkey Script – Jean-Paul Boodhoo
Management Craft: Your Sense of Urgency – Redux, And for Good Reason
– Lisa Haneberg
How to get in the right setting of urgencyPolyMon Controls – Free, cool and source available WinForm controls (plus a little about PloyMonRT and PolyMon) – Greg Duncan
Test First Development and Making a Cake – Leon Bambrick
Leon discovers the SOLID principles while cooking ‘ it’s easier to spot little bits of egg shell in a bowl of yolks than in a bowl of cake mix
“Ah, the virtues of independent deployment,” I said ‘‘No excuses’ done done – Simon Baker
‘ This stuff is as hard or as easy as you want to make it. It’s not enough to be doing the technical practices and it’s not enough to be living the values and principles ‘Hosting your OSS project on github – Aaron Jensen
A Study: Ways To Make Web 2.0 Work In The Enterprise – Dilip Krishnan
IT Security: Blaming the Victim – Bruce Schneier
‘ Blaming the victim is common in IT: users are to blame because they don’t patch their systems, choose lousy passwords, fall for phishing attacks, and so on. But, ‘ read on…How Third-Party Licensing Can Ruin Your Launch | Software by Rob
‘ License file? We’d been running in our development environments for two months without any problems ‘
Hehh, we had something like the problem Rob pictures vividly here, with a certain graphic component vendor. Had to call their component from a dll instead of an .exe. No way that was gonna work until we coughed up a ridiculous amount of extra moneyRe: Health Monitoring in ASP.NET 3.5 – Andere Loker
‘ I played around with the health monitoring feature and it looks really great. As a quick reference here’s a short description of the elements of the health monitoring facility (…) ‘jQuery – Using Slider as a Scrollbar – Dave
10 really useful free Windows system tools – TechRadar UK
‘ (…) sometimes you don’t know that you need a tool until you’re presented with it ‘ And that is correct! Several tools that look handy but were completely new to meReSharper 4.5 — Looking in the Past – Ilya Ryzhenkov
Ilya from JetBrains explains ‘ (…) what we’ve been doing for the upcoming release, ReSharper 4.5 ‘FitNesse.Tutorials.0 – Brett Schuchert
‘ Getting Started with FitNesse in C# ‘ hands on demo via Brett’s blogFantastic Typography Blogs For Your Inspiration – Joel Reyes
‘ Some say that web design without typography is like an orange without its peel, it just isn’t complete ‘40 Comics Strips for Web Designers – Webdesigner Depot
there is 40 comics there, really. Just click!How project managers establish power – Scott Berkun
Scott on empowering: ‘ Forget for a moment these specific points. Joe did the most important thing in the world as a boss. He gave me clear priorities ‘
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