LINKBLOG for May 16, 2009
May 16th, 2009 by AZuidhof
Loosen Up Your Writing Grip to Banish Pain – Jason Fitzpatrick
‘ For those of us born and raised in the computer age, it is hard to imagine how novelists of yore hand wrote entire tomes before sending them on for editing and publication ‘Builders, Story Tellers And Whiners – Part 7 – Rajiv Popat
Email Tip: Save Time and Stress with One New Folder – Meryl Evans
One more folder to automatically have all those social networking emails go to that overflow your mailboxWolfram|Alpha Architecture – High Scalability
‘ Wolfram|Alpha excels at different areas like mathematics, statistics, physics, engineering, astronomy, chemistry, life sciences, geology, business and finance as demonstrated by Steven Wolfram in his Introduction screencast ‘How Our Primary Source of News & Information Changed in the last 200+ Years – Moving from Traditional Media to the Internet – Amit Agarwal
Tim Ferriss + Kevin Rose – Random Episode 2 – Tim Ferriss
‘ Kevin and I are at it again in this 2nd episode of what is still being called “Random”. Have a better name or topic suggestions? Tell us in the comments! ‘How to Customize or Disable Google Update – Alex Chitu
Setting up Trac, Mercurial and SSH on Windows – OJ Reeves
OJ has such a lot of mercy on the poor souls that have to install and use the same tools, that he wrote a lengthy install manual saving you a couple hours to figure it out by yourself. Thanks!How To Improve Your Branding With Your Content – Rick Sloboda
‘ Branding experts hit the nail on the head when they say that a winning brand conveys why you are your prospects’ only solution ‘
Amit analyzes the web2.0 companies from a wellknown graphical overview of the ones that made headlines back in 2006 and concludes… ‘ Obviously, lot of things changed in the last three years – some companies got acquired, some became successful on their own while others went bust ‘Parallel Tasks – new Visual Studio 2010 debugger window – Daniel Moth
Friday Books – ASP.NET Social Networking – Dave Bush
‘ While people have always networked with one another the Internet has allowed us to network with people all over the world easily ‘Multithreading: “sharing” mutexes – Luis Abreu
Why Twitter’s Engineers Hate the @replies feature – Dare Obasanjo
Dare thinks out loud on Twitter’s decision to change the way @replies are distributedRobust Software: Establishing Team Values – Garry Shutler
‘ A shared identity and core set of values can only benefit a team. To that end I’m going to run a similar session to the one I participated in in order to establish a set of values for my team ‘Review: ASP.NET 3.5 Enterprise Application Development with Visual Studio 2008 – Travis Illig
State of ALT.NET Answer to Scott Bellware Disturbing Thoughts – Mohammad Azam
jQuery to the rescue – some numbers – Alkampfer
You know you buy into Testing and Testabilty when you wrap a singleton simply to create an abstraction… – Derik Whittaker
‘ I am a little bored so I thought I would write a nice fluent interface around the Performance Counter crap that is part of .net ‘OpenXML Viewer 1.0 Released – Greg Duncan
‘ Open source DocX to HTML conversion, with IE, Firefox and Opera (and/or command line) support ‘Social Media Experts Are Poets, Software Developers Are Novelists – Jurgen Appelo
‘ My first thought was that the real art piece was stolen and the thief had thrown away the cord. But apparently, the piece of cord was the art ‘
Jurgen reflects on the amount of social media swarming the interwebs these days; just like modern artists took over our museums.Kona 3: Learning Behavior Driven Development (BDD) – Rob Conery
‘ Holy cow! Another *DD – man I really must have an IV with that Alt.NET Punch just coursing like a train in my veins! I ask for your patience with this one ‘
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