LINKBLOG for March 29, 2009
Mar 29th, 2009 by AZuidhof
Job Satisfaction, And Making The World A Better Place – Casey Charlton
‘ You know what we achieve with all our wonderful software patterns and practices? Not a lot on the whole ‘Pair Programming: From a Lean angle – Mark Needham
Working with the Common Feed Store in Windows – Kirk Evans
Experimenting With Fluent Interfaces in the Domain – Jan Van Ryswyck
ExceLINQ – Not Your Typical LINQ Provider – Bart de Smet
Captcha validation and Twitter Notification – Mark Nijhof
Thoughts on SubSonic Management – Rob Conery
AntiPaste, because Pasting Code Is Harmful – Tony Rasa
Great idea!Relinquishing the illusion of control – one small step at a time – Pascal Van Cauwenberghe
How To Use Microsoft Project: Task Type – Chris Woodill
StyleCop for ReSharper: The power of ReSharper 4.5 and StyleCop combined – Harold van de Kamp
.NET – Installing Silverlight 3 – A Step By Step Guide for Upgrading your Development Environment – Harsh Bardhan
Ignore your critics – Seth Godin
‘ (…) you want to know which misguided losers had nasty things to say and you want to know what they said ‘
But. You shouldn’tGhostNet: Turning Computers into Giant Bugs – Lidija Davis
Story on how someone, maybe the Chines government, invaded a massive number of computers in 100+ countries to steal confidential and secret dataSuspect and Unusual Photographs – Adam Shostack
‘ The Telegraph has the story at Teens capture images of space with £56 camera and balloon ‘
Cool article and Flickr slideshow showing how you can create wonderful stuff on a shoestring budgetNotes on SampleDocViewEditor – Chris Eargle
Underscoring A Point – Rod Paddock – CodeBetter.Com – Stuff you need to Code Better!
If you like BDD style notation like ‘ We_hold_these_truths_to_be_self_evident_that_all_men_are_created_equal_that_they_are_endowed_
…with_certain_unalienable_rights_that_are_among_these_are_life_liberty_and_the_pursuit_of_happiness ‘Primitive File Size Chart Quickly Locates Your Drive-Hogging Files – Jason Fitzpatrick
And another little lifehacking timesaver. That is, if you scour you drives every now and then like I do – to find those pesky huge wastes of precious hard drive spaceHow independent contractors can avoid getting burned by too many client revisions – Meredith Little
‘ Don’t let multiple client revisions lead you to do unpaid work that’s beyond the scope of your contract. Meredith Little offers tips on how to handle these client requests ‘ASP.NET MVC rescues Microsoft’s web platform – Tim Anderson
Tim reasons that Microsoft undervalues their MVC web platform, and should make it their web platform of choice. IMO there are still enough reasons to go the Web Forms route, depending on your (team’s) situation, but OK: to me it a major improvement over traditional ASP.NETThe Complexity Pig – Ade Miller
‘ Once upon a time in a land not so far away a programmer was taking an afternoon walk ‘
‘ Code Canvas is a research prototype focused on spatial orientation of code as the foundation of an integrated development environment ‘
Great video of a Microsoft Research project, via Alvin AshcraftJQuery your first plugin – Alkampfer
‘ Writing a plugin is a breeze, and here an example of your first JQuery plugin, a logger to the firebug console ‘
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