LINKBLOG for May 18, 2009
May 18th, 2009 by AZuidhof
“It doesn’t hurt to ask” – Seth Godin
‘ Actually, it does hurt. It does hurt to ask the wrong way, to ask without preparation, to ask without permission. It hurts because you never get another chance to ask right ‘LINQ to SQL and alternate Providers – Rick Strahl
‘ I’ve tried an interesting experiment today trying to see if I can get LINQ to SQL to run with a custom ADO.NET Data Provider I’ve created some time ago ‘We All Know Multitasking Is Bad – Now What? – Glen Alleman
Glen B. AllemanHow Do You Convince Your Boss to TDD? – Misko Hevery
‘ Excellent question which takes me a bit by surprise, as I can’t imagine my boss dictating how I write code
‘Subversion Key Points Condensed – Code Zest
‘ As with most of us when trying to master Subversion, you might be slightly overwhelmed with the amount of info you have to learn to become a “Subversion Guru” ‘Use jQuery to “turn off the lights” while watching videos – Janko Jovanovic
Cast null values in tests – Patrik Hägne
‘ My first tests of classes are often tests that asserts that the constructor throws ArgumentNullException for null arguments, something like this (…) ‘Where is Everyone? – Thomas Baekdal
Times are a-changing with the advent of social web ‘ (…) how do you connect with other people today? And more importantly, how do you do it tomorrow? ‘The ROI of Stories- An Informal Case Study – Chris Brogan
Great story that shows there are still trustworthy people in this world. Made me totally think of the introduction of Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody, where an new cell phone left at the back of a cab is *not* handed back to the owner, who subsequently used the social web to liteally let millions of people know what’s going on.Multi-value Dictionary C# source code (.NET 3.5) – Frans Bouma
‘ By popular demand, I’ve published the C# source code of my Multi-value Dictionary class, which can also merge dictionaries into itself and which implements ILookup<T, V> as well. ‘Resharper Tip: Navigating to a type – Lee Brandt
<>’ For simple navigation, using ctrl+t or ctrl+shift+t can be invaluable. If you need to navigate to the file containing the Floogle type ctrl+t can get you there in a hurry ‘
Read on for more of this useful tip10 Even Better Wolfram Alpha Easter Eggs – Ben ParrWh
While Wolfram Alpha – the newest web2.0-ready search-engine-that-is-not-a-search-engine has launched, I personally don’t find it more than an extended query mapper at the moment. Only the graphics are blowing me away. For the rest the database seems quite shallow. Let’s hope it’s only the beginning of a useful new tool. It sure has potentialSocial Media Blogs Top 200 – Jurgen Appelo
<>’ This is the real thing. The best list of social media blogs in the world ‘
Once again Jurgen assembled an ginormous list of interesting blogs. This one on social media. Which begs the question: how does he manage to gather all these stats. Personally I think he outsourced it to India Twitter Services That Are Useful To Me – Rhonda Tipton
Rhonda mentions some cool services you can use with Twitter. The Twitter-to-Evernote service stands out for me!Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 available to MSDN subscribers tomorrow, Monday, May 18th, says Microsoft Australia Blogger – Greg Duncan
Top 10 disappointing technologies – Shaun Nichols
‘ Pretty much every new product gets hyped as a potentially disruptive technology these days, and usually nobody outside of the company’s marketing department actually believes it ‘
via someone@TwitterEntity Framework and Creating a Reusable Abstraction – Jim Zimmerman
How to Wake Up and Instantly Achieve Something Everyday – Paul Dickinson
‘ Before I’ve even had breakfast, had a shower or got changed, I’ve usually completed the most important task of my day ‘
That’s great if it works for you! Only task I get done before having breakfast is getting up and get dressed…Mutable Linq Expressions – Ayende Rahien
‘ What I am going to show you now is probably going to get some people in Microsoft pretty angry with me, but hey, if they used ReSharper, they wouldn’t have this problem ‘ Ayende pulls some tricksYou Never Should’ve Done It… – Max Pool
‘ Personally, I don’t see to many instances of premature optimization any more; however, I do see premature abstraction all the time ‘ Max sees a great Peter Drucker quote and shares a little insight5 minute Scrum intro (Video) – Craig Brown
Multithreading: using Semaphores – Luis Abreu
Server Fault Public Beta Nears – Stack Overflow blog
‘ The Server Fault private beta is going well; it looks like the Server Fault public beta will begin May 25th ‘Programming magic: Rituals and habits of effective programmers – Amy Bennett
Why Are Mutable Value Types Even Possible? – Davy Brion
‘ A coworker of mine was recently trying to figure out why some code wouldn’t compile ‘Book Review: Code Leader by Patrick Cauldwell (+ a digression on contracts) – Patrick Smacchia
Great book, wrote a review on it back in March and thought out loud that the books deserved more attention than it got. Now Patrick chimes inFocus on What’s Next – Dan Schawbel
‘ Whatever the reason, if you focus only on being the best at what you already do, there’s a chance you could find yourself on the market… with no one interested in buying ‘
Interesting food for thought!
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