LINKBLOG for May 22, 2009
May 22nd, 2009 by AZuidhof
In the enterprise, nothing is what it seems – Leon Bambrick
‘ There is a hidden network of bloggers (all around you), a kind of secret brotherhood…
These are the ‘ghost bloggers’ ‘Clean Code and Battle Scarred Architecture – Robert C. Martin
IoC/DI should be about creating Loosely coupled code, not testable code – Derik Whittaker
Visual Studio 2010: Extension Manager – Dan Rigsby
Don’t use Response.End() with OutputCache – Rick Strahl
NUnit ValuesAttribute is tasty delicious! – Patrik Hägne
Less Virtual, More Machine – Windows 7 and the magic of Boot to VHD – Scott Hanselman
Large Team Foundation Server Performance Characteristics – Grant Holliday
Visual Studio 2010: A few tips for developers – Jef Claes
highlighted with nice screen shots, Jef talks us through a couple options in the upcoming version of Visual StudioCode Contracts – Patrick Cauldwell
Some details on the new Microsoft Code Contracts projectA Technical Presenter’s Journey: Part 4 – Be Confident but Humble – Justin Etheredge
Italics Rendering in VS2010 Beta 1 – Tomas Restrepo
Typemock Isolater and ASP.net Bundle -FREE – Ryan Svihla
‘ Typemock is launching a new product for ASP.NET developers – the ASP.NET Bundle – and for the launch will be giving out FREE licenses to bloggers and their readers ‘Twitter from ASP.NET – Retrieving Statuses – Dave Bush
TFS 2010 Beta 1 with Teamprise – Martin Woodward
Get last-modified header from response in ASP.NET – Mads Kristensen
‘Methodist’: Make .NET Reflector come alive with IronPython – Ben Hall
‘ Wouldn’t it be great if you could see the code, and then initialize and interact with the object, calling methods and seeing the result directly within .NET Reflector? Thanks to the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) and IronPython – you can! ‘
Extending an already great tool: cool!Im in a planning funk and heres how I intend to get out of it – Sammy Larbi
The Fast Track Past A Failed Project: 5 Steps – Thursday Bram
Thursday BramDomain Models (continued) – Michael Stal
‘ Even in projects with lots of experienced participants the problem domain had been often root of misunderstandings and misconceptions ‘Using The Guid.Comb Identifier Strategy – Davy Brion
Half-dead project saved! Thank you – Direct Communication – Przemysław Bielicki
‘ I will show you how direct (instead of discrete) communication with customer or good Product Owner in general can help saving almost dead projects ‘Build: Using virtual machines to run it in parallel – Mark Needham
How to use virtual machines on developer machines to speed up the build processThe Evolution of the Social Media API – Ben Parr
‘ Social media services like Twitter, Facebook, and Google (Google reviews) have been fundamental pillars for building social graphs (…) their greatest innovation may actually be opening up their products to outside developers through the use of the API ‘CSS Tabeless Design Basics – Positioning Content with Floats instead of Tables – Dave Schinkel
For those of you – the tiny minoroty hopefully – who still have their website designed with tablesHelp consulting clients create strong password policies – Susan Harkins
‘ Strong passwords are a great start toward protecting clients’ data, but clients need policies that clearly state user responsibility for protecting passwords and connections. Here are tips on what clients should include in their password policies ‘Continuous Checking E-book? – Adam Goucher
‘ How much interest do we think there would be in a how-to-ish e-book on Continuous Quality/Checking/Integration? ‘
Adam is thinking out loud on ideas for a ‘the next book’ on testing9 Practical Ways to To Help Stay Focused – Steve Martile
‘ As the media and the people in your environment will always find new ways to distract you from what’s important, it’s even more important today to maintain your focus ‘ And there are definitely techniques to stay sane in today’s hectic world. Read on for some good ones…How to Let Go and Forgive – Leo Babauta
Inspirational thought for the day. You should really try this, I know the feelings of relief it can give if you personally forgive someone… well, whatever wrongdoing was done to you.
‘ Forgiveness can change your life (…) It’s not easy. But you can learn to do it ‘Twitter’s Search Engine Is Very, Very, Broken – Louis Gray
‘ The promise of Twitter’s advanced search capability is tremendous (…) ‘ but it is yet only a promise, as Louis explains
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