LINKBLOG for May 13, 2009
May 13th, 2009 by AZuidhof
Project Scheduling – 14 Designers Share Their Advice – Selene M. Bowlby
Why these jQuery worst practices aren’t – Scott Koon
Starting Over—As An Entrepreneur – Rich Whittle
What kind of open are you looking for? – Seth Godin
‘ open sesame: the best way to get into a cave ‘
Listing everything that can possibly be openDealing with negativity: Stop naysayers from derailing a project – Chip Camden
‘ One naysayer on the team comes up with three or four very good reasons why the plan won’t work, and nobody else can offer a convincing rebuttal ‘
Unfortunately fighting this battle is a daily exercise in frustration for many of us, I knowAre You Doing Business In The Cloud? – Thursday Bram
I’ve been slowly moving towards living in the cloud (…) I can access just about everything I want, whether I’m in my office, at someone else’s office, a friend’s house or anywhere else with an internet connection ‘
Works great for me too! But there are the obvious downsides, on which Thursday has some things to say – and is wondering how *you* use the cloud – or not.Avoiding unnecessary server work in ASP.Net – Tim Stall
‘ One of the best ways to increase performance in ASP.Net pages is to not do any unnecessary server-side work ‘10 Ways To Put Your Content In Front Of More People – Paul Boag
‘ Which is more important, driving traffic to your website or encouraging as many people as possible to see your content? ‘Journalism is no meritocracy — stop the presses! – Scott Rosenberg
SharePoint is not a Database! – Chris Woodill
‘ art of the problem is false advertising by consultants and/or Microsoft that SharePoint is a miracle platform that can do anything ‘How Green is Your PC? Estimating Power Usage Effectiveness – Ade Miller
Twitter Puts a Muzzle on Your Friends: Goodbye People I Never Knew (Updated) – Marshall Kirkpatrick
Twitter has their issues, but this seems like a stupid move to fix them, killing “social discovery” int the process. I can very well figure out how many tweets are enough for me, thank you very muchHow To Make Unit Tests a Burden – Fredrik Kalseth
‘ One of the common arguments people have against unit testing, is that it slows them down. And they’re right – unit testing will slow you down – if you’re doing it wrong ‘IgnoreRoute in ASP.NET Routing is Order Dependent – Steve Smith
Don’t mock my integration tests – Ayende Rahien
Microsoft MEF Q&A with Hamilton Verissimo de Oliveira – Aslam Khan
via Brad AbramsIdeas for the Masses: Purveyors of Mediocrity: Persecuting the Idea Monster – Bas de Baar
‘ Every great idea starts as the seed of one person or small group of people. The creative process used to come up with the next best thing, always starts small and innocent ‘Heros Are Not Born…. They Are Self Made – George P. Alexander Jr.
‘ Jon Skeet is the most popular contributer on Stack Overflow. So much so that he has got his own fan following ‘Are you desperate to prove your way is The Way? – Pamela Slim
If you have product to sell, you better be convinced of the true value it would mean for your customer. Cause if you don’t, be sure they will just feel there is something wrong with your offerMercurial: Pulling from behind a proxy – Mark Needham
‘ I’ve been playing around with Mercurial and the mercurial hosting website bitbucket a bit this year and recently wanted to pull from a repository from behind a proxy server ‘REST, Silverlight, and the New York Times – Jonathan Allen
‘ In a effort to remain relevant in the increasingly difficult news industry, the New York Times has built a REST-based API through the Times Developer Network ‘Visual Studio 2008 Locks or Freezes in ASPX – Rinat Abdullin
‘ There is one other small detail. When Visual Studio hangs it happens to spawn a Setup process that never exits ‘ oopsREST – Good, Bad and Ugly – Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz
‘ The point is that REST seems simple but it isn’t – it requires a shift in thinking (e.g. identifying resources, externalizing the state transitions etc.) ‘
REST thoroughly explainedSimplicity rules – Michael Stal
‘ To keep an architecture small, expressive and simple we can do a couple of things as software architects ‘ read on (…)Typography – Font Related Disorders among Graphics Designers – Amit Agarwal
‘ Typochondria is a state of persistent anxiety among designers that they have selected a wrong typeface or font for their project ‘Why I wrote The Geek Atlas – John Graham-Cumming
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