LINKBLOG for June 2, 2009
Jun 2nd, 2009 by AZuidhof
21 Scripts, Tips, and Tools to Decrease Your Websites Server Load – Chris Reynolds
‘ Over time, websites can start to get bogged down with large images, multiple pieces of Javascript, and hefty CSS files ‘
O yes they can. I can personaly contest that at least a couple of these tips help tremendously in speeding things up a bitDepency Injection/Inversion of Control – are they the same? – Michael Wiles
Simple Nested Closure – Matt Hinze
Eight reasons why it’s time to fire a client – Chip Camden
Chip explains he likes honestly most when it comes to pulling the plug on a client. But if that doesn’t work, raising your pay might be a good one too…Designers & Developers within the ALM / TFS vision – Andries van der Meulen
Andries has nice things to say on Microsoft’s ALM strategy. I’m not 100% convinced by that strategy, thinking Microsoft still has some way to go, but they sure are progressingMicrosoft Web Platform Installer – Scott Guthrie
‘ One of the cool new releases coming out this year is a small download manager – the Microsoft Web Platform Installer – that makes installing and configuring web server and web development stacks really easy ‘
Roy reviews a tools that might just come in as a great help to some of you … ‘ all the signs pointed to the possibility that this would be yet another one of those licensing schemes that are just not good enough, but I was wrong ‘Don’t believe everything you read or twee – Mark Blomsma
A great word of advice to check your sources before believing what’s coming to you by means of the web, twitter, or whatever digital -or analog for that matter- sourceFluent Silverlight – Part 2 – Binding Properties – Gabriel Schenker
After having introduced the new Fluent Silverlight framework in part 1 it is now time to dig a little bit deeper and discuss some implementation details. This time I’ll have a look into the details how we bind a property of a Silverlight control to a view model property.A Technical Presenter’s Journey Part 8: Deliver with Confidence and Style -John Feminella
Productive Typing – Brendan Enrick
Keyboard shortcuts, third party tools: there’s more than one way to speed up your typing a little. An obvious word of warning: speed typing is not the only issue when it comes to writing great code!
‘ This anti-pattern is caused either by lack of domain knowledge, or laziness, sometimes both ‘Advanced docking using jQuery – Janko Jovanovic
Why joint ventures fail so often – Seth Godin
‘ There are two reasons joint ventures fail. The joint part and the venture part ‘Essential Guide To Regular Expressions: Tools and Tutorials – Glen Stansberry
For all those still trying to master regexes time after timeTim Ferriss and Kevin Rose Discuss Their Top 5 Must-Read Books
‘ In episode 3, Kevin Rose and I discuss our top 5 must-read books, how we use them, and who should read them ‘
Video where Tim and Kevin vividly explain why you should read those books. Some interesting pointers that you might not expect from these gentlemenCrisis Communications for the Social Media Age – Aliza Sherman
‘ Now, with social networks, blogs and microblogs, the speed with which bad news can travel online is staggering ‘To Estimate or Not To Estimate? That is the Question! – Kelly Waters
‘ It clearly doesn’t contribute to the end product itself, but is estimating really waste? Or does it really add value to the process? ‘Making 0 Equal 0 in C# – Jonathan Allen
Refactoring guard clauses, or “How to ask politely” – Kyle Baley
‘ This post is brought to you by the letters M and V and P. I mention that at the beginning to set the pre-requisites ‘we have no class (a personal journey of not learning OO) – Michael Minutillo
‘ I feel as if the OO train left and very few people were on it. There I said it. Don’t feel bad if you missed it, I’m pretty sure that I’m not on it either. What the heck am I talking about? Let me explain ‘The Girl Who Proved P = NP – Jeff Atwood
‘ As with so many things in programming, the first step is learning enough to know when you’re really screwed ‘10 HTML Tag Crimes You Really Shouldn’t Commit
via Twitter /Dana CoffeyHow Important are Avatars? – Joshua Porter
‘ While we can’t literally get people into the same room with software (yet), we can approximate the experience. Showing avatars of people gets us further along this spectrum, and we act differently as a result ‘
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