LINKBLOG for March 26, 2009
Mar 26th, 2009 by AZuidhof
Retrospective Antipatterns – Ilja Preuss
Debugging speed of Gallio fixtures – reloaded – Andre Loker
RIA The Death of Server Page Development – Scott Nichols
‘ Silverlight 3 is an RIA (rich internet application) platform product and as such means that it has certain limitations by design, mainly the browser security sandbox ‘10 Ways to Interrupt Others – Rajesh Setty
‘ 1. Just say that it will only take a minute of their time and squeeze five to ten minutes out of their life ‘
Everyone’s favoriteDemystifying Interaction Design – Joshua Porter
‘ if interaction design isn’t about influencing behavior…then what exactly are you doing? ‘
VideoIntroduction to NHibernate, pt. 6 – Ian Cooper
Want To Stand Out At Work? Get The Small Stuff Right – Ali Hale
‘ Even if something seems unimportant or insignificant to you, it might be a crucial cog in the machinery of your company – and getting that little task right can stop things from fouling up ‘Coding: Isolate the data not just the endpoint – Mark Needham
‘ One of the fairly standard ways of shielding our applications when integrating with other systems is to create a wrapper around it so that all interaction with it is in one place ‘MisfitGeek.com – MVC Book Download from “The Gu” – Joe Stagner
‘ Scott Guthrie has a free 185 page book chapter on ASP.NET MVC that you can download for free ‘
Cool, it’s already in my download folder!C# Optimization Revisited Part 2: Concurrency – Ade Miller
Using Unity to do poor man’s tracing – Alex Thissen
The Impact of Recession on Green IT – Mike Walker
Development in 5 Years Would be Affected by – Rinat Abdullin
Rinat takes a throw at predicting the futureBuffering vs streaming benchmark: first results – Jon Skeet
Inducting Newbies On Large Agile Projects – Mike Bria
‘ (…) getting new members brought up to speed can often occur in a more natural, efficient way than when people were working in a soloed, waterfall world ‘Implementing A Value Object With NHibernate – Davy Brion
Loading an Image from Resources in an Unreferenced Assembly – Bobby Johnson
The Art of Discovery – C. Engdahl
Measure Innovation NOT InnovationS – Stephen Shapiro
One big game of Risk: A Human’s Nature – John P Vajda
Innovating for the future: Think “Experiential Capital” – Jim Carroll
What is your most important asset? According to Jim ‘ (…) it is found in the accumulated wisdom from the many risks that you’ve taken. The more experiential capital you have, the more you’ll succeed” ‘
Specifically us risk averse types here in the non-Anglican part of Europe will have a hard time seeing this. But, I think we can learn a valuable lesson from the ‘failure is OK’ attitudeNetworking: how do you do it? – Elizabeth Harrin
Networking ‘ (…) what’s the point? It’s all chewing the fat and having drinks with people you don’t really knowA fast version of Conway’s Game of Life with thread and DirectX draw – Jerry Jiang
C++ implementation6 Tools To Be An Effective Web Developer – Geek Daily
One of them being the use of an MVC framework, another “unittesting and mocking”. So, a good readGetting serious about your meeting problem – Seth Godin
‘ At Ford, they used to have meetings to prepare for meetings, just to be sure everyone had their story straight ‘
Guess Seth is not making this one up, sadlyInkd: A New Marketplace for Print Design – Shannon Paul
Showing how the web is used to stimulate innovation in the print worldSix Very Official Ways to Improve Your Writing – Shannon Paul
Don’t Worry. Be Crappy – Rajiv Popat
‘ As a perfectionist; you enjoy the art; and you want to give whatever-it-is-that-you-are-working on the final touch of a specialist before you show it to anyone ‘More Security Loopholes Found In Google Docs – Robin Wauters
Serious issues with Google Docs. This is obviously a huge side effect of the worldwide efort of getting everything online, in the cloud and what have you. Privacy is often the major victim hereThe Question of Outsourcing – Thursday Bram
Outsourcing work has many disadvantages. But you can learn whereto use it to your advantage, if done correctlyWhy requirements stink – Scott Berkun
‘ Requirements suck for two major reasons.
1. Requirements is not Design
2. Too many cooks ‘
‘ Don’t add people in your network to mailing lists without asking their permission. Just because you have their card does not mean that they want to hear from you via newsletters ‘
I agree with most of the points here. Key in networking is thinking what you can do *for* your network. Revenue will flow back later. Only “use” your network in special circumstances. For the rest: keep in touch, but leave them alone mostly
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