LINKBLOG for May 12, 2009
May 12th, 2009 by AZuidhof
Visual Studio and Mono at TechEd – Darren Stokes
Book Review: Implementing Automated Software Testing – Jim Holmes
VB.Net and the Case of the Iffy Ifs – Anne Epstein
Riddle Me This, Riddle Me That – Bil Simser
‘ When it comes to SharePoint surveys, there’s a lot to explore. And a lot missing ‘The Five Reasons Why You Are Not Fulfilling Your Potential – Paul Sloane
inspirational – best tip: stop being lazy!Good API Design: Part 3 – John A. De Goes
Happy Birthday, Todo.txt CLI! – Gina Trapani
‘ The script, todo.sh, made adding items to a todo.txt file and marking them “done” a quick, command-line operation ‘Wabi sabi – Greg Brown
‘ Read up on wabi sabi, compare it to the philosophy where you work, and think about what it means for your product or project ‘
‘ Over the years, I’ve come to view offense as a particularly useful state of being – but only when the offense one feels is used properly ‘Project teams are not teams – Mendelt Siebenga
‘ One of the prerequisites is always stable teams, for many of the agile thought leaders the existence of teams is self evident, it’s hardly ever talked about ‘AutoMapper and IoC – Jimmy Bogard
.NET RIA Services May 2009 Preview – Brad Abrams
ActiveReports is ‘ (…) relatively painless to integrate into your project, has a great designer tool, and has plenty of power for more advanced reporting needs ‘The Web Browser Address Bar is the New Command Line – Jeff Atwood
‘ Google’s Chrome browser passes anything you type into the address bar that isn’t an obvious URI on to the default search engine ‘
That this has cool and new possibilities, is something Jeff shares with us in an enthusiastic post
‘ Perhaps the command prompt — or more specifically, the search oriented, crowdsourced, world public command prompt — really is the future. ‘Sneek Peek at StoryTeller (i.e. my FitNesse killer for .Net) – Jeremy D. Miller
‘ In many ways, I still believe that “Executable Specifications” are the “Holy Grail” of Agile/Lean software development (…) ‘Case When Open Source Development Tools Are Better – Rinat Abdullin
‘ This tool [FxCop, ed.] is not the most flexible one to extend, but it is a nice one to get better insight in the code without wasting a lot of time ‘Some thoughts on using the Facebook Open Stream API – Dare Obasanjo
Screen Design with Balsamiq Mockups – Ben Griswold
‘ Balsamiq mockups sped up my document writing time ‘Git solves all your branching and merging problems! Almost! – Ethan Vizitei
PDB Files: What Every Developer Must Know – John Robbins
‘ The most important thing all developers need to know: PDB files are as important as source code! Yes, that’s red and bold on purpose ‘
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