LINKBLOG for March 25, 2009
Mar 25th, 2009 by AZuidhof
The MCV framework: view extensions – Luis Abreu
Making Web Applications Look Like Desktop Applications Using Chrome – Rhonda Tipton
Nice trickTechies – 17 ways You Undermine Your Own Career – Raven Young
CCD Red Degree Principle – Keep it simple, Stupid (KISS) – Michael Minutillo
A plea for less prima donna’s… in the end it comes down to generating business value, not creating the most beautiful codeThe Magic of BizSpark” – Ian Smith
‘ if you’re familiar with the Microsoft technology stack and favour it over other open source alternatives, the BizSpark initiative is a complete no-brainer ‘Entities: Required Properties And Properties That Shouldn’t Be Modified – Davy Brion
Changing your connection string at runtime with Spring.Net – Benny Michielsen
NHibernate and TooManyRowsAffectedException – Alkampfer
Why “No Issues” Is Not An Acceptable Answer – Derick Bailey
‘ Unless your team is perfect, working in a perfect environment, with no constraints or external factors involved in their process, answering “no issues” consistently and constantly, is nothing short of lying to yourself and your team ‘3 Reasons Why I Wouldn’t Do Agile Software Development – Kelly Waters
‘ Sometimes I hear people say that agile development isn’t appropriate in all circumstances.
In fact, I used to say that myself; however now I’m not so sure ‘Has automatic checkout stopped working for you in Visual Studio? – Will
How to Publish Your Own Book – Ebooks – Part 2 – Steph
Dark Intellipad – Tomas Restrepo
‘ the Intellipad editor that comes with the Oslo SDK can also be customized, including the color scheme used by the editor ‘Idealistic vs. Practical – Christopher Bennage
‘ people frequently contrast Agile with Pragmatic.
“Oh, I’ve heard about SOLID principles (or whatever), but I’m really more pragmatic” ‘QTB: Lean Times Require Lean Thinking – Mark Needham
Essay on how Lean could be of value especially in the current crisisThe idea spectrum – Jeffrey Phillips
‘ Inovation requires risk, uncertainty, failure and a departure from the status quo. If we expect people to get engaged and to deliver useful ideas, then we need to be very clear about what we want ‘More Google Search Insights – Alex Chitu
The Joy of Saying ‘No’ – Karen Senteio
‘ One year, my sister declared it the ‘Year of the “no”’. This meant that when someone asked her for something that she did not want to do, she would simply say “no” with no explanation ‘
read how this can be a real revelation when applied consistentlyPassive Barriers in Software Development – Sammy Larbi
One of the most helpful ones is adding the line127.0.0.1 reddit.comto your HOSTS file….Merge History, DAGs and Darcs – Eric Sink
Eric’s continuing saga on Distrubuted source cotrol‘ In something bigger than a nutshell, merge history is a lot more complicated ‘
‘ Since the path of the start location of the ClickOnce application is part of the (signed) manifest the setup does not work any more if you change it ‘Damn you, Crystal Reports! – OJ Reeves
Say the words that must be said, brother!Windows Home Serve[r] available on MSDN – David Vidmar
Internationalization – Resource Files – Dave Bush
‘ Using resource files is pretty easy, but there are some choices you will need to make ‘DDD – Distillation – Yves Goeleven
From the Mailbag: Polyglot Programmer vs. Polyactivist Language – Ted Neward
New CodePlex project: MvcSiteMap – ASP.NET MVC sitemap provider – Maarten Balliauw
‘ If you have been using the ASP.NET MVC framework, you possibly have been searching for something like the classic ASP.NET sitemap ‘Keep Productive Away From Home – Dawn Foster
‘ While I work out of my home most of the time, as a consultant I occasionally need to travel to client sites ‘
How to stay productive during business trips
Welcome dear visitor! I'm your host, Arjan Zuidhof. Have a look around on this opinionated linkblog, take a peek at the links, and if you like what you see, don't forget to subscribe to the feed (at the top, on your right) and receive fresh links daily in your reader.
Dutch? You might be interested in my -new!!!- link blog 