LINKBLOG for April 22, 2009
Apr 22nd, 2009 by AZuidhof
Booklist 2.0: April 2009 – Martin Kloos
Accountable or Responsible? – Jurgen Appelo
‘ Today I tried to figure out what the difference is between the words responsible and accountable. I honestly didn’t know ‘When the Job Changes But the Programmer Doesn’t Part II: Saving Frank’s Job – Esther Schindler
Social Networking for Developers – Conference Talk Video – Scott Hanselman
Free Star Trek Icons (for personal desktop use) – Greg Duncan
‘ You know you want them. Just accept your inner-geekness and go get them… I won’t tell…
‘Tech Day #3 – Inversion of Control (IoC) Containers – Rob Cooper
‘ I first heard about this in Head First Design Patterns (I also strongly recommend grabbing the poster) ‘
O yeah, *that* poster. Bought it last year, and put it up in the office. The collegues were more interested in the girl than the patterns. sigh.Why Do You Care About What “Everyone” Else Does? – Johanna Rothman
‘ A senior manager saw a survey like this. He asked me what timeboxing was. I explained. Now he thought timeboxing was the best thing since sliced bread ‘Improving Performance of images used with 3D – Josh Twist
ASP.NET MVC and the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) – Maarten Balliauw
‘ (…) here’s what we are going to build: an ASP.NET MVC application consisting of typical components (model, view, controller), containing a folder “Plugins” in which you can dynamically add more models, views and controllers using MEF ‘Good Database Table Design Practice– Managing table unique identifier (Primary key) – Wilson Kutegeka
Synchronization and unit testing – Patrik Hägne
‘ There are a number of different ways to synchronize access to resources in .net, the most common ones are probably the Monitor class (…) ‘
‘ Microsoft has released a lot of resources related to BizTalk 2009 (which are free to download). Among them are whitepapers, posters, videos, FAQs etc ‘jQuery Auto-Complete Text Box with ASP.NET MVC – Ben Scheirman
Challenges of Multi-Tenant, Enterprise ASP.NET Applications – Travis Illig
Tutorial about mocking with Rhino Mocks and Moq – Gabriel Schenker
Spotted in the wild… – Richard Dingwall
ouch, SQL Server function that has ‘a couple’ issuesChanging the format of your Powershell Prompt – Zachariah Young
Now You Can Change What Google Says About You – Marshall Kirkpatrick
Claim your own Google ProfileWhat is Maintainable Code – Stanley Kubasek
Is Parallel Programming Hard? Prof. Guy Blelloch Argues That It Isn’t – Jonathan Allen
The Under-Estimated Importance of Friendships – Rebecca Jestice
‘ A recent article in the New York Times discussed research that has shown that friends are often more important to survival rates of those facing health crises than family or a spouse ‘
Interesting find via Twitter / Bas de BaarConfessions of a Serial Product Owner – DevAgile
‘ Without clearing it with us developers, the CEO said in front of the whole company that we were starting using Scrum as from then. But what did that mean? How were we supposed to work? ‘
Links to a big e-book by Anna Forss on introducing Scrum in the development processThe Five Dysfunctions of a Team: Book Review – Mark Needham
Why estimate? – Pascal Van Cauwenberghe
‘ Is estimating due to lack of trust? ‘If you want an improvement culture, 20 expressions to avoid – Jason Yip
How to Download & Save Embedded Pictures from an Outlook Email – Amit Agarwal
little tipUpdate Notifier Finds Newer Versions of Windows Apps – Kevin Purdy
If you always want to be on the latest version of all your tools6 Steps to Effective Notes – Thursday Bram
Couple of good points how to go about taking notes and taking care that they’re processedFunctional Solution for the Shortest Path Problem – Matthew Podwysocki
Nice technical post explaining the solution in F#Becoming a Manager: Learning to Rely on Data – Steve Rowe
‘ That said, the best thing we can do is be prepared at all times for that game-changing idea. I recently decided to take stock of where I am when ideas hit me ‘
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