LINKBLOG for March 30, 2009
Mar 30th, 2009 by AZuidhof
You Decide How You Communicate: Rules Of Engagement – Bas de Baar
Just like ants… ‘ humans also have “rules” about how we do things “around here”. It is not hardwired however ‘Knowing when your website is attacked – Phil Factor
Unable to launch the ASP.NET Development Server because port ‘n’ is in use – Dries Marckmann
Come Learn jQuery – Rod Paddock
DDD: Recognising relationships between bounded contexts – Mark Needham
‘ There are various patterns used to describe the relationships between different bounded contexts: ‘ which Mark describes in the rest of the postSolution to the gambling game – Cedric Otaku
Why is Git so Fast? – Eric Sink
‘ Two: Maybe Git is fast because Linus Torvalds is so smart.
This might very well be correct. But it’s not interesting ‘Measuring download speed by embedding a GIF inside a JavaScript comment – John Graham-Cumming
‘ As part of my day job I’ve been spidering a large number of web sites. While debugging the spider to make sure that its results were consistent I came across a curious web page that contains binary data inside a comment inside <script> tags ‘How To Correctly Sandbag Your Estimates – Max Pool
‘ Learn to break down your estimations in smaller pieces. For larger tasks, ensure you are estimating in ranges or with a process that implicitly includes a fudge factor such as Planning Poker (Point Estimation) ‘Tips to be a good code-reviewer – Tim Stall
From Social to Serious: Combining Twitter and RESTful Web Services – Kurt Cagle
Weird, Confusing and Irritating Photography – Aquil Akhter
Weird indeed!Your IoC Container Choice is Not a Feature of Your Application – Tim Barcz
My ReSharper NUnit Test Templates – Brian Genisio
Chunk Cloud Computing (CCC) – Jimmy Nilsson
Jimmy has a new article (PDF)Write ETL jobs in pure C# – Paul B
‘ If you like writing C# and dislike using DTS/SSIS to create ETL jobs (or the general idea of clicking through a designer in order to get work done), then this is for you ‘ The author explains how Rhono ETL iworksMissing Entity Framework Templates and Visual Studio 2008 – Rob Cooper
ASP.NET MVC with Windsor – programmatic controller registration – Andre Loker
Andre concisely shows how to integrate the Windsor IoC Container in an ASP.NET projectSubtext goes to Google Code – Simone Chiaretta
YSlow: Add expires header to images in IIS 7 – Mads Kristensen
11 Useful Free APIs for Developing “Apps” – Scott Watermasysk
‘ It really is amazing what you can build today simply by leveraging services provided by others ‘
Agreed!Non-Functional Requirements – Minimal Checklist – Mike Griffiths
As the saying goes: you get what you paid for. This applies equally to web hosting. Consider your needs in relation to price before making a decision. For example: how important is it that your provider might just go from PHP 4 to PHP 5 without notifying you?Top 10 Reasons to Work From Home – Jonathan Mead
‘ More managers are realizing that it doesn’t make much sense to pay someone for their presence. The value they provide is the real measurement of worth ‘
I never cease to be amazed about the amount of distrust folks have on working from home. In a professional mindset it really does not matter where you work. Or might it be that these people have encountered too many non-professional knowledge workers?Support Of Commercial Software vs Open Source Software – Davy Brion
Davy lays out his opinion, along the way going into detail on many a misconception on both commercial and open source software
‘ Choosing a piece of software based purely on the possibility of getting good support is quite simply rather short-sighted ‘Quotable Quotes: Words To Live By – Miki Saxon
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and it looks like work.” –Thomas EdisonMSIL Injection: Rewrite a non dynamic method at runtime – Ziad Elmalki
‘ The .Net Framework contains classes to define methods at runtime but what about rewriting existing methods at runtime. Is it even possible? It turns out yes ‘ read on…Spiceworks Adds Social Media Widgets To IT Networking Software – Leena Rao
Another way social media invades the Enterprise
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