LINKBLOG for May 7, 2009
May 7th, 2009 by AZuidhof
Builders, Story Tellers And Whiners – Part 4 – Rajiv Popat
Rajiv with part 4 of his continuing saga on our industry, and the truly (in)competent in itOpenOffice.org 3.1′s Usability Tweaks – Kevin Purdy
Get your finances in order with this 50-page PDF, “Everything You Need to Know About Personal Finance on Just One PageCoding Dojo and Code Kata Resources – J.P. Hamilton
J.P. regularly posts on coding dojo’s: meetings where programmers get together to undertake a programming challenge. Check him out if you want to know more…Part of your job should be to learn – Karl Seguin
The Influence of MVC on my WPF – Christopher Bennage
Difference between AreEqual and AreSame – Garry Shutler
‘ This is a question I’ve been asked at work before and the answer is quite important as it can lead to tests mysteriously failing ‘Introduction to MapReduce for .NET Developers – DeveloperZen
Clear explanation of this important patternUnderstanding the Problem – Chris Missal
Are you building an everyday app? (or, free advice for LinkedIn) – Joshua Porter
.NET’s Most Influential People in 2009 – Jay Kimble
Tools and Programs I use in my everyday work – Agnes Molnar
‘ I have to pull and push information every day. It’s not to easy, I have to map out my days very well. Here is a short (and not full) list of the most useful tools I use ‘
via Alvin AshcraftMultithreading: using the stack as storage – Luis Abreu
Ten years of Permission Marketing – Seth Godin
‘ Don’t be selfish. You’re not in charge. Make promises and keep them. It’s like dating. It’s an asset, it’s expensive and it’s worth it ‘Tap Into Your Inner Entrepreneur – Rich Whittle
Do You End Meetings On Time? – Bob Sutton
Some reasons why your meetings always run late, one of them ‘ 2. The Leader Lacks the Courage — or Perhaps the Power — to Stop Overbearing Blabbermouths ‘Five Key Questions Developers Need to Ask before Starting the Troubleshooting Process – DevCentral
the Who, What, Where, When and WhyProject Huron Wants YOU to Test Cloud-Based Data Services : Crazeegeekchick.com
‘ Project Huron is part of Azure, and its goal is “to remove the typical complexities (configuration, scalability, security, etc) involved with sharing database information ‘The Value of Analysis and Plateaus – Adam Goucher
An Expectation of Online Privacy – Bruce Schneier
‘ If your data is online, it is not private. Oh, maybe it seems private. Certainly, only you have access to your e-mail. Well, you and your ISP. And the sender’s ISP (…) ‘
Etc.C#: Using virtual leads to confusion? at Mark Needham
How Many Chickens Are Too Many? – Vikas Hazrati
‘ According to Scrum, only the committed team members (pigs) are allowed to speak during these meetings ‘
webcastDDD – Declarative design – Yves Goeleven
‘ This declarative programming style has a lot of merits to reduce the impact of changes in the design, but it can impose some risks as well as the effects of these specifications can’t really be tested properly ‘Who’s In Charge Of The Time? – Davy Brion
Method hiding, stack trace manipulation and programmatic debuggery – Michael Minutillo
‘ Tonight I found myself using a few techniques that I’d never come across before. So I figured I’d document them before I forget what the heck was going on ‘Yet another reason to love TestDriven.net – Sebastien Lambla
‘ So here I was, coding away in an abstract class, and frenetically executing the test as I added code (something I remapped to Ctrl+T, T) ‘*** I Just Logged In As You: How It Happened – Jeff Atwood
Jeff encountered a.. well let’s call him a white hat hacker. . that logged into his Stack Overflow admin account, explaining in great detail how he did it. Jeff takes the blame and urges us as programmers to reconsider how we go about storing user credentials in our own system – leave that to the experts like (most) OpenID providers.
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