LINKBLOG for March 31, 2009
Mar 31st, 2009 by AZuidhof
Querying NHibernate user type with HQL or criteria – Alkampfer
Evolving code over time – Peter Ritchie
‘ Given economics, time constraints, resource limitations, etc.; you can’t write all the functionality for a given solution for a single release ‘Book Plug: Essential LINQ – Brad Abrams
Breaking: Internet Explorer 8.1 Eagle Eyes Leaked – Jacob Gube
Courage – Janusz Gorycki
‘ Courage lets you overcome any and all obstacles that may stand in a way of developing a fine piece of software ‘Why aren’t you (really) good at graphic design? – Seth Godin
‘ I put together a page with some blogs, books and sites you can check out. An hour a day for a month and you won’t have to hide your face in shame ‘How To Monitor Online Conversations – Dawn Foster
Dashboards, FriendFeed, Twitter, feeds. The whole shebang
‘ So far, this library includes functions that help resize, crop, overlay, and rotate images. It also contains a function, Get-Image, which will take the output of Get-ChildItem and return all files WIA can load ‘
Nice stuffPutting the M in MVC – Part I – K. Scott Allen
The use and misuse of quoting people – Scott Berkun
Nerd Dinner Confessions or Nerds Don’t Compute – Mark Nijhof
Obfuscation, serialization and automatically implemented properties – Marc Gravell
Using SVN’s latest revision in your TeamCity build – Louis Salin
CODE Magazine Upgrade – Steve Smith
Who Do You Have on the Bus? – Mike Cottmeyer
‘ While we are very different… our strengths can be very complimentary.
That said… it has taken us years to understand this about each other ‘FileSelect, a re-usable document centric WinForm File menu – Greg Duncan
‘ one less wheel to re-invent… ‘Lost in Translation – Elisabeth Hendrickson
‘ In their process, the business people talk to the business analysts who talk to the systems analysts who give requirements to the programmers ‘
I explain the problems behind this communication barrier every now and then to (project) managers, but get blank stares normally…sigh.
‘ I wish all the questions I got were this straightforward ‘FeedDemon 3 – The Perfect Twitter Client – Amit Agarwal
Since FeedDemon supports authenticated feeds this becomes a viable option. Unless you’re subscribed to a huge number of tweeple, me guesses
The Question Behind The Question of Multitasking Ability – Sammy Larbi
Java for .NET developers – Simon Brown
Simon provides a hefty PDF thouroughly explaining the differences, targeting a .NET developer audiencePaving my machine for a fresh 2009 – First-Pass Must-Haves – Scott Hanselman
‘ Here’s what I installed. Total time from naked drive to productive was about 4 hours. Could have been faster had I downloaded things ahead of time or used CDs ‘
Scott the ToolGeek has been keeping himself busy againThe Only Reference That Really Matters – Dan McCarthy
‘ Perhaps now’s the time to assess your relationship with your current manager and start taking action now to influence that potential future reference check ‘
Dan talks about the importance of keeping good relations with your past managers: before you know it you find yourself in a TORC chatting with both him *and* your prospective new managerRebuilding vs refactoring – Code of Doom
‘ I accepted and said I would have the estimation come end of day. Then I found out which project this was for. It was *THE* project ‘
Yes, yes, I know the project. Then comes the difficult question what to do nextThe Toughest Developer Puzzle Ever – Jeff Blankenburg
This is the coolest geek puzzle I’ve ever seen, and the best thing since Robozzle!
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