LINKBLOG for April 2, 2009
Apr 2nd, 2009 by AZuidhof
Review: Peopleware – Steve Rowe
Better late than never
This is at least one of the best books on manangement I’ve ever readStriving For Transparent Work Cultures With ‘No Secrets’ – Rajiv Popat
Ultra-Simple 3-Step Productivity System for Getting Amazing Things Done – Leo Babauta
3 Tips to Improve Memory Quickly – Steve Martile
The “I don’t have time for social networking” thing – Havi Brooks
If you are serious about personal branding, and making yourself being seen as a personality on the internets, Havi advised to do spend some time investigating how Twitter, LinkedIn and the like can help you. You won’t regret it!In this Economy, Everything’s (Re)Negotiatble – Robert Jones
‘ To ask for new terms on contracts, start when things are still manageable and avoid looking desperate ‘How cool would it be if there was a PowerShell Provider for Team Foundation Server? – Greg Duncan
‘ Where you could CD into a Project and DIR its work items? It’s very cool! Check this out… ‘Choose expression: proposal for a revolutionary C# construct – Igor Ostrovsky
Announcement of S#arp Architecture Community Site – Billy McCafferty
Ten C# Keywords That You Shouldn’t Be Using – Justin Etheredge
Justin advises against a handful of keywords, some of them you might use yourself quite a lot. Read this and think again if this is OK or notAmazon Web Services: Building Blocks for True Internet Applications – Dave West
Presentation
‘ His article covers the core operating principals of Microsoft’s implementation such as the machine code used by compiled regular expressions ‘Making myself redundant in 6 months with Scrum – Peter Stevens
‘ “My job is to make myself redundant.” That’s what I told my customer 6 months ago as we started our Scrum coaching project ‘TDD: Testing mapping code – Mark Needham
‘ Writing unit tests around mapping code is certainly one of the areas of testing where it feels like there isn’t that much value in doing so (…) ‘8 must read papers for project managers – Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz
So you don’t get bored over the weekendFunctional Programming and Collective Intelligence – II – Matthew Podwysocki
Anatomy of a Cross-site Request Forgery Attack
‘ Here’s a simple banking website I wrote. If your banking site looks like this one, I recommend running away ‘
Not making April Fools jokes here, Phil describes what you can do to mitigate this type of attack (e.g. “Never allow changes to data via a GET request”). Here’s the follow-upThe Importance of Making Problems Visible – John Hunter
‘ Great, short, presentation webcast by Jason Yip showing the importance of making problems visible ‘How to Build Your Social Circle – Glen Allsopp
‘ They say it’s not what you know but who you know ‘ still applies onlineFirst, ten – Seth Godin
‘ This, in two words, is the secret of the new marketing.
Find ten people. Ten people who trust you/respect you/need you/listen to you… ‘Mindnode: Mind Mapping Made Manageable – Imran Ali
I’m really discovering mindmapping lately as a tool that is extremely helpful in getting ones thoughts on a piece of laptop screenLearning about the Strategy Design Pattern – Dime Casts.Net #98
ASP.NET MVC 1.0 – Scott Guthrie
‘ I’m excited today to announce that we are also releasing the ASP.NET MVC source code under the Microsoft Public License (MS-PL) ‘
Apparently not an April Fools jokeWhat’s New in CodeRush & Refactor! Pro 9.1 – Mark Miller
As an avid and happy ReSharper user I sometimes forget that there’s a major competitor around doing not too badWriting an IronPython Debugger: Command Routing – Harry Pierson
‘ At this point, ipydbg support seven commands: Continue, Quit, Show Stack Trace, Show Locals, Step Over, Step In, and Step Out ‘ IronPython stuffTransparent Query Batching Through Your Repository – Davy Brion
Rolling a Bubble – ASP.NET MVC is Ms-PL – Rob Conery
Master Craftsman Teams – Uncle Bob
‘ (…) in light of the movement towards software craftsmanship, perhaps it’s time to dust off this old idea and look at it from a different perspective. Consider the following thought experiment… ‘.Net RIA Service – Hello World – Hatim Rih
‘ I will focus on building a simple Hello World application to explain the use of the domain service and the code generation on the client side ‘
‘ How do you know when you’ve found your true entrepreneurial purpose? I can only tell you how I knew when I had discovered my own — it didn’t hit me like a ton of bricks ‘Privacy and the Fourth Amendment – Bruce Schneier
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