LINKBLOG for May 19, 2009
May 19th, 2009 by AZuidhof
The Flat Tire Principle for Source Control – Eric Hexter
‘ here is a strange correlation between automobiles and line of business software applications when it comes to performing some standard repairs ‘The dojo is open… www.ITSamuraiSchool.com – Billy McCafferty
‘ Codai’s IT Samurai School is open for enrollment. It’s Flash, so it’ll take a few moments to download…but I hope you’ll agree it’s worth the wait… http://www.itsamuraischool.com ‘Don’t Reinvent the Wheel – Margie Zable Fisher
‘ Starting a home business sounds like a terrific idea, until you realize all that’s involved in getting it up and running ‘
Fortunately you’re not the first one doing thisMatch Your Learning Style with the Proper Productivity Tools – Jason Fitzpatrick
How to Be More Productive In Your Business – Susan Baroncini-Moe
‘ Something I see frequently is that when people finish the day and haven’t accomplished as much as they’d hoped to or planned to, they end up judging themselves. “I’m so lazy!” ‘ Stop judging yourself like that.Ducks In A Row: Do You Have People Or Persons? – Miki Saxon
ASP.NET MVC For Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 – Phil Haack
Try to do this without LINQ – Dennis Doomen
A Technical Presenter’s Journey: Part 1 – Know Your Audience – Justin Etheredge
Justin start a howto series on giving technical presentations, getting a lot of follow uppers (see below)Tip for Technical Presentations – Detailed Notes – Jason Young
Speaking tip: Rehearse! – Michael Eaton
Michael makes a promise: ‘ I will NEVER do another presentation without first running through it out loud in the comfort of my home/office. I will do this multiple times if possible ‘Why developers should not be happy with a project manager – Dennis van der Stelt
Why Isn’t My Encryption.. Encrypting? – Jeff Atwood
‘ It’s as true in life as it is in client-server programming: the only secret that can’t be compromised is the one you never revealed. But sometimes, it’s unavoidable ‘Linked Data is Blooming: Why You Should Care – Richard MacManus
A Good Velocity – Chris Sims
‘ The Web as Platform and the consequent changes in the architectural landscape are put into context with a brief recap of the software development history (…) ‘How to convince your fellow developer to write short methods? – Venkat
‘ Now simply reply, “oh, I though I’ll tell you how my weekend way like you write your methods ” ‘How to: Visual Studio test runner & side by side test code – Björn Rochel
‘ After spending a lot of time with xUnit.net I recently had to go back to MSTest for my testing again (because it’s the de facto standard at my current client which is not negotiable ;-() ‘Half-a-Book Review: IronRuby in Action – Jan van Ryswyck
Application Extensibility and Embedded Scripting – JP Hamilton
‘ Following known design principles and patterns and using techniques like inversion of control can be the foundation of a flexible, extensible, and testable code base ‘Maintenance and Monitoring Infrastructure for the Enterprise Software Systems – Rinat Abdullin
‘ Enterprise application software systems are about the software that organizations buy or develop to solve their business specific problems ‘The Art of Scalability
‘ The Art of Scalability teaches technology executives, engineers and architects how to solve technology scalability problems through changes in their architecture, processes and organization structure ‘
Upcoming new book, via Twitter / Jan van Ryswyck
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