LINKBLOG for May 23, 2009
May 23rd, 2009 by AZuidhof
Subverting TDD as a design tool – Jimmy Bogard
Asp.Net, ObjectDataSource and Castle Windsor – Alkampfer
OpenID’s Tipping Point – Dare Obasanjo
Have we reached it yet?We Don’t Need Another Hero – Phil Factor
Robust File Finding in Your App with MSBuild – Travis Illig
Why doesn’t IEqualityComparer use Equals() in LINQ’s Intersect? (with a stroll down the lane of GetHashCode and the Birthday Paradox) – Billy McCafferty
Use guid.comb in your database if you need guid keys but don’t want to take a big performance hit – Jeffrey Palermo
Which came first, the View or the Model? – Shawn Wildermuth
‘ The magic of this code is that you retain the anonymity while perserving the functionality. It becomes the user of the View/ViewModel’s responsibility to determine how they are related ‘Honey, Where Did I Put My Product Key? – Bil Simser
It’s The Little Things: PNG Transparency In Win7 Explorer – Erwyn van der Meer
You’re Right! Mitch Ditkoff
Some wisdom picked up from Tevye, main character in the fabulous movie Fiddler on the RoofPublish Excel Spreadsheet Data on the Web as PDF Files with Google Docs – Amit Agarwal
‘ Google Docs has long allowed users to publish their spreadsheets on the web as HTML web pages but now you can also publish spreadsheet data as downloadable PDF or Excel files ‘Strict Mocks and Characterization Tests – Brett Schuchert
Pair Programming: It’s not about equal keyboard time – Mark Needham
Face-off: Assessing cloud computing risks – SearchSeurity.com webcast
Bruce Schneier and Marcus Ranum about possibly unthought of risks when going into the clouds. For example: you competitor takes over the company that stores your cloud. Problem?
viaObserving And Understanding Genuine Builders – Part 2 – Rajiv Popat
‘ There is something about Nine AM.
It’s the time of the day when something amazing happens ‘
And don’t forget to read part 1 of this seriesThe Project Management Blame Game – Brad Egeland
‘ (…) if they see you as a finger-pointer in the blame game, then they will not be seeing you as the take charge leader you need to be ‘TDD Naming styles – Mark Nijhof
‘ A commonly accepted way is to append the project names with “Tests” or “Specifications” suffix. Like the following example shows us three different projects ‘Flaccid Kanban – Scott Bellware
2 years ago I gave up on Silverlight – Karl Seguin
Karl explains why he gave up, and also how he knows exactly when he did
‘ This question keeps coming up: “How can I test that an event was actually raised from my class under test?” ‘Are you a solo developer? – Nick Kirkes
‘ I’m curious to know how other solo/freelance developers are implementing Agile practices into their business? ‘
‘ Or are they thinking? ‘The Remote Wine and Dine: Keep Your Clients Happy With Extras – Darrell Etherington
‘ It may not be quite the same as traditional face-to-face business outings, but there’s a lot of relationship-building you can do as a remote worker ‘
Some nice tips to create a more inspiring atmosphere around youTop 5 Ways to Share Videos on Twitter – Jennifer Van Grove
Yet Another JavaScript Testing Framework – Miško Hevery
‘ Did you notice that there are a lot of JavaScript testing frameworks out there? Why has the JavaScript community not consolidated on a single JavaScript framework the way Java has on JUnit ‘
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