LINKBLOG for April 14, 2009
Apr 14th, 2009 by AZuidhof
9 Brilliant Ways To Ensure Client Satisfaction and Project Success – Matt Jurmann
When the Job Changes But the Programmer Doesn’t – Esther Schindler
‘ A programmer on your team is great at maintaining the old system. But the company has switched to a new platform. What do you do with the no-longer-effective developer? ‘Building Blocks and the Three Bears – Pat Helland
The non-financial resources at a manager’s disposal – Tim Stall
‘ A good manager knows what resources they have at their disposal, and how they can exchange those resources for other things ‘X Tests are not X Tests – Michael Feathers
‘ Testing is a slippery subject, and it’s reasonably hard to talk about for one simple reason: the nomenclature is chaotic ‘TDD Tests are not Unit Tests – Stephen Walther
Book Review #10: 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know – Brian di Croce
Great book, and the greatest thing is all content is available for free from the O’Reilly site Btw, there is an alternate site providing this context (in case O’Reilly ever gets second thoughts…For Now, Don’t Use SynchronizationContext in Silverlight 2 or 3 – Shawn Wildermuth
Why Well-Run Developer Programs Matter – Jeffrey McManus
‘ (…) I think hard about what it means when a large percentage of those developers can’t figure out what I’m trying to provide for them for whatever reason ‘Switching Mocking Framework – Sean Feldman
‘ If you are familiar with AAA syntax, Moq will feel no big change. Just less fat and more to the business ‘5 Blogs ASP.NET MVC Developers Should Be Following – Justin Etheredge
ASP.NET Internationalization – Themes – Dave Bush
Black Belt C# Series – Language Keywords – Robert Venables
A series aiming to ‘ uncover powerful but lesser-known features of the C# language ‘The MVC framework: the ActionLink control – Luis Abreu
“I don’t have time to test!” – Joshua Lockwood
‘ This argument is often made when the team is up again tight deadlines and excessive pressure from management for delivery ‘Introducing Fluent Ado.Net – Chris Brandsma
Developing a Complex External DSL – Vaughn Vernon
An Unnecessary Usability Compromise – Scott Watermasysk
F#: A day of writing a little twitter application – Mark Needham
Mark has been keeping himself busy programming a little Twitter tool. One of the biggest disadvantages of Twitter IMHO is the lack of features, so I can imagine this 100%. OTOH, lack of features equals simplicity, which lead to it’s success in the first place.Retrospectives should not be about sharing pain – Jason Yip
‘ Retrospectives should not be about sharing pain and venting.
Retrospectives should be about getting better ‘
Great quote, ’nuff saidMEF Preview 5, changes and enhancements – Glenn Block
Resharper Tip of the Day: Moving Chunks of Code – Lee Brandt
‘ I’ll go over two examples in which we’re going to transpose a map from an imperative style using mutable dictionaries to one that is written in a functional style with immutable maps ‘How to Do Things Your Customer Didn’t Ask For – Jurgen Appelo
‘ Should we spend time on things the customer didn’t (explicitly) ask for?
Jurgen got an interesting question, here is his take
‘ If you have something deep to say, 140 characters is not going to cut it very often. And sometimes, when it does, it’s almost too opaque to be grasped by anybody who doesn’t already grok it ‘
Even the above statement takes more than 140 charsFind & Download Online Documents using Firefox – Amit Agarwal
another potentially useful Firefox plugin:
‘ With OutWit installed, you can use Firefox to locate online files as well as documents that may be stored on your local hard drive ‘Stoicism 101: A Practical Guide for Entrepreneurs – Tim Ferriss
Tim wrote a huge article for the motivation of all you entrepreneurial types out there!The Importance of Monitoring Your Online Reputation – Adam Pash
Resembling Tweetdeck strikingly, this is the ultimate lifehacking tool for your Inbox!Ten Quirky Issues with Cross-Platform Version Control – Eric Sink
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