LINKBLOG for March 16, 2009
Mar 16th, 2009 by AZuidhof
So, What the Heck is a Service Anyway? – David S. Linthicum
‘ Here’s a better question: What is a service, and how does it differ from information? ‘Insights On The Evolution Of A PM – Raven Young
Unicode output to the Windows console – Swuk
‘ printing wide Unicode strings to the Windows console – simple ostream and wostream overrides ‘Breaking Liskov – Jon Skeet
WCF Exception: “There can be at most one address per scheme in this collection” – Nathan J Pledger
Refinance Your Technical Debt Just Like Your Mortgage – Max Pool
‘ If developers can not provide the evidence of business value for paying off technical debt (…), the majority of the time project stakeholders will defer paying off technical debt ‘How .NET Regular Expressions Really Work – Jeff Moser
&& vs & and | vs ||… What’s the difference? – Dave Bush
Disambiguating a test fixture – Jimmy Bogard
Explaining Expression – Marc Gravell
DVCS and Bug Tracking – Eric Sink
Eric has much to say on distributed source control systems these days. They’re all the rage but I can’t *git* (har, har) myself into itGood-bye broken builds – J Rasmusson
New feature in TeamCity that will prevent broken builds for you, and gets the human out of the continuous integration processMy Agile Team: More Code, More Problems – Matt Grommes
‘ This time around, we’re still playing Whack-A-Mole on the list of bugs we’ve encountered since Go Live. We stomp one out, another pops up ‘A Fusion of Proven Ideas: A Look Behind S#arp Architecture – Abel Avram
Writing Re-usable Scripts with PowerShell – James Kovacs
Some things you just need to know when starting to work with PowerShell seriously ‘ Why can’t PowerShell find my script? By default, PowerShell doesn’t include the current directory in its search path, unlike cmd.exe ‘Book Review: Building Domain Specific Languages in BOO – Bart Reyserhove
Top 100 Blogs for Developers (Q1 2009) – Jurgen Appelo
Jurgen managed to create another list to get us from being productive. Thanks anyway!You know management is going to ask for it – Tim Stall
‘ (…) even if management promises “don’t waste your time on it”, you know that they’ll come back to you and ask for it ‘Best Practices for Designing a Social News Website – Dmitry Fadeyev
How to deal with jerk programmers – Scott Berkun
‘ There are basic psychological reasons for this: Either they are insecure, they are unhappy, or they are angry about something ‘Book Review: NHibernate In Action – Davy Brion
Learning NHibernate is not a trivial endeavor, but fortunately … ‘ NHibernate In Action aims to lower that learning curve significantly ‘
This might come in handy the dreaded day they ask you to”work on something SharePoint related”GTD (Getting Things Done) with ClearContext Personal – Greg Duncan
‘ (…) a free Outlook (2003/2007) addin to help you wrestle your Inbox to the ground ‘The Positive Legacy of C++ and Java – Bruce Eckel
Bruce who was on the C++ Standards Committee for quite a while, has something to say hereDesigning a document database: View syntax – Ayende Rahien
Ayende is on a spree with his series on building a document database
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