LINKBLOG for May 26, 2009
May 26th, 2009 by AZuidhof
The Case of the Slow Keynote Demo – Mark Russinovich
And again Mark solves a seemingly complicated network issue with his own tools
‘ It might have seemed like magic to him, but I had simply used basic Process Monitor troubleshooting techniques and the Web to solve the case ‘Dealing with Distractions – Paul Dickinson
‘ I noticed a few prominent distractions in my life this week (Twitter and Digg are taking over!) and I felt that it was time to address the problem! ‘Turn Your Spare Thumb Drives Into Feature-Packed Giveaway Drives – Jason Fitzpatrick
This post has a lot of tips what to put on your thumb drive. You don’t have to give the drive away though!
‘ The book presents Waitzkin’s life as a study in contrasts; perhaps this is
intentional given Waitzkin’s admitted fascination with eastern philosophy ‘Browser Compatibility Cheat-Sheet – Brent Strange
Handy Excel sheetMind Mapping and the Work Breakdown Structure – Glen Alleman
Comments on the WF 4.0 Designer – Tomas Restrepo
‘ In a broad sense, I think it’s an improvement over the old designer in VS2005/8, but in the end I’m still far from happy with it ‘Improved Blend 3 Asset Library : John Papa
Creating Gapped and Bulleted Shapes in WPF/Silverlight – Alan Mendelevich
Why Is The Return Type Parameter Last? – Eric Lippert
Filtering Information: Why You Cannot See Everything – Bas de Baar
‘ I already stopped watching television (except for Knight Rider). I only listen to non-stop music radio stations.
Sometimes it feels like being hosed down by information ‘xUnit.net 1.5 CTP 1 – Brad Wilson
Process list in XAML plus a bit of virtualisation with the .NET Client Profile – Mike Taulty
Moq examples, Part II – Brett Schuchert
Regular Expressions, Your Job Requires Them – Tim Barcz
‘ It’s my belief that regular expressions are fundamental, yet the average developer doesn’t treat them as such. They’re ultimately doing themselves a disservice ‘When Shall We Call For Change? – Andy Blumenthal
‘ We see change coming. We hear change coming. We feel change coming. But what happens? It does not come. Why? ‘Groups: Turn Information Overload Into an Asset – Marshall Kirkpatrick
Interesting post on the “Vaulue of the full stream” and weak connections. Read on if you’re interested in how to deal with the abundance of social information coming your wayNot a GTD Disciple? Don’t Worry About It – Pamela Poole
‘ Once you do this, everything falls into place. In my task management app, I have groups in which I keep associated tasks, but I also have a group for each of Covey’s quadrants ‘
New aggregation kid in town, … ‘ AmpliFeeder, a free, open-source distributed social activity aggregator ‘Coding Tip #27: turning bools into enums – Sarah Taraporewalla
‘ The other benefit that you get from enums when compared to booleans is that your method signatures are more expressive ‘Lessons for Leaders – From the World’s Highest Mountains – Travis Wright
‘ One of the benefits of being a continual learner is that we are constantly overtaken by ah-hah moments which (…) also hold lessons which can have universal application for anyone in leadership ‘InfoQ: Presentation: The Joys and Pains of a Long Lived Codebase
‘ Jeremy D. Miller shares lessons learned while developing a project over 5 years. He talks about his mistakes, what to avoid and how to design, code and test better ‘
head to presentation directlySteps for using a fishbone / cause and effect diagram – Jason Yip
‘ The head of the fishbone is not a problem so much as an effect, whether negative or positive. This is why this tool can be used to both solve a problem as well as design a solution ‘A Queue Isn’t An Implementation Detail – Udi Dahan
‘ A queue isn’t an implementation detail.
It’s the primary architectural abstraction of a distributed system ‘What Microsoft Should Do For .NET Open Source – Davy Brion
‘ Microsoft should also play nice with other Open Source projects. Sure, they included JQuery with ASP.NET MVC which is a good move. But (…) ‘ read onChecklist for the Agile Manager (Presentation) – Jurgen Appelo
Jurgen did a presentation at the Ageil Open Romania; here’s his slidesWhy Are You Asking Me This Question? – Max Pool
‘ Imagine this, your boss walks up to you and asks, “You said the code could run on both Windows or Linux, right?” Do you say… ‘ read on
‘ David Starr (…) found craftsmanship relatively easy to measure, while agility was the most difficult to measure in a useful way ‘
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