LINKBLOG for March 23, 2009
Mar 23rd, 2009 by AZuidhof
The myth of big salaries (it’s all marketing) – Seth Godin
‘ After a million dollars or so in salary, the absolute amount that a person is paid has no real impact on their life ‘
Good post, although I’d say that a million is already *a lot*Core ASP.NET – DZone Refcardz – Holger Schwichtenberg
An Evening with Fluent NHibernate – Howard Dierking
Equal Spacing, CSS Font Replacement – Chris Coyier
– David HaydenThe Wisdom Of A Half Empty Glass – Max Pool
‘ Some view pessimists as concentrating on the negatives of life. I view pessimism as the ability for positive improvement ‘Accordion, part 1 – Ruurd Boeke
‘ Accordion can be best described as an ItemsControl that displays Expanders. The items shown are actually of type AccordionItem and can expand or collapse ‘My Visual Studio Twilight theme – Sean Biefeld
To Inject Or Not To Inject – Justin Etheredge
‘ (…) the majority of the benefits of dependency injection only become apparent when you start dealing with scale ‘Who’s Your Arch-Enemy? – Jeff Atwood
‘ I didn’t fully understand 37 Signals’ advice to Have an Enemy until recently ‘Free-er Web – Abhijit Nadgouda
‘ Just the other day some of us were trying to apply the open source philosophy to the Web technologies ‘Building multi tenant applications with ASP.NET MVC and Windsor: Part 4 – combining everyting – Bart Reyserhove
AutoWire with StructureMap does not wire dependencies which are not public – Derik Whittaker
Hosting .NET Reflector in your own Application – Nick Harrison
The Successor Value Pattern – Michael Feathers
‘ Sometimes the mapping from entities to values is clean but often with a bit of thought you can end up with representations which are better tuned for functional work ‘Perceptor: An artificially intelligent guided navigation system for WPF – Daniel Vaughan
‘ Perceptor tracks a user’s behaviour while he or she interacts with the user interface ‘Five Best Web Browsers – Jason Fitzpatrick
O, so there is more than five?
Seth on jerks. And a solid solution for them!
‘ Every organization worth its salt has at least one guy like this. Someone who knows every technical detail, or has vast expertise in the parliamentary procedure ‘Why Storage Needs More Structure – Gary Orenstein
Terabytes just for the fun of it is no good…Say What You Want – Chris Brogan
‘ McDonalds is pretty darned smart. You might have your reasons for not liking them. You might feel they’re antithetical to all you hold pure and dear. It doesn’t make them any less smart ‘Internet Explorer Global Variable Blow ups – Rick Strahl
Git/Github survival guide – Ivan Porto Carrero
‘ Most of this guide applies to both windows and *nix systems except for the next part because that will describe the install parameters for getting msysgit to behave nicely on your system ‘
This episode explains Value TypesAdding Behaviors to page elements in Microsoft Expression Web 2 – Minal Agarwal
Coding: Making the debugger redundant – Mark Needham
We will always find use in the debugger, but Mark – since he started applying TDD in his programming – sees he needs it less and lessThis is not a book review – Havi Brooks
Hah, what do you have when you get books for free. to write a review about. and you don’t like them? A problem. Havi has a problem and likes us to take it away from her
Great Managers Have No Secrets – Jurgen Appelo
‘ As Jack Stack wrote in his book: only when employees care about financial figures, they will think of ways how to improve them ‘The Makers of Things – Michael Lopp
Rands on bridges today …
‘ We need a new version of ourselves and that’s going to involve bright, unexpected ideas from those we least expect them from, and they’re going to strike you as impossible ‘Differentiating between environments within SQL Server Management Studio – Leon Bambrick
Color coding Production sessions is a nice idea but even that will not prevent everything that Murphy predicts:
‘ We can limit who accesses production, and we can give minimum privileges to those that do have access.
But even then:
*Someone* will have destructive privileges in production ‘It All Began With Balls – Mitch Ditkoff
‘ Most companies begin on a shoe-string — under-funded, under the gun, and under the radar ‘The MVC framework: more on links – Luis Abreu
Got an Hour? Create a Server in the Cloud – Lidija Davis
‘ But now, having created this server in the cloud, the question remains, what next? ‘Progressive Interfaces – Jan van Ryswyck
‘ Whenever you’re new to a particular fluent API, it may not always be obvious what the API developer had in mind when he designed it ‘
Progressive interfaces to the rescue
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