LINKBLOG for June 10, 2009
Jun 10th, 2009 by AZuidhof
6 Amazing Techniques to Staying Happy During a Stressful Project – Karl Staib
Focus and break it downTest and Context – Alkampfer
Guy #3 – Seth Godin
Great video! Are you a guy #3, or even a … no 1?Code Contracts Primer – Part 2: Handling Legacy Code – Derik Whittaker
‘ (…) long story short, if you have legacy code and you want to take advantage of the contracts library you simply need to add a single line of code AFTER your last if-then-throw statement ‘Defining and refining conventions – Jimmy Bogard
Another Refactoring Exercise: Design Patterns Recommended! – Brett Schuchert
Quality Software – Sean Feldman
‘ As an airline customer, I want to be able to watch the movies on board, so my time on the boring flight could go faster ‘
Some people can *never* stop making up user stories…ASP.NET MVC TDD using Visual Studio 2010 – Maarten Balliauw
‘ Creating a new controller, the TDD way ‘
‘ The goal of these control helpers is to reward you for developing MVC with the Model first. Yeah there is a reason that Model View Controller starts with the Model ‘Getting Started With Selenium For ASP.NET Developers – Bobby Johnson
‘ I wanted to find out exactly what it takes for a .NET developer to get started using Selenium. This post is intended to help others get started ‘15 Books You Must Have If You Are Doing ASP.NET Web Development – Suprotim Agarwal
ASP.NET MVC Installer For Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 And Roadmap – Phil Haack
‘ I’m happy to announce that we’re done with the work I described and the installer is now available on CodePlex ‘Teaching Children to Spot Terrorists – Bruce Schneier
‘ If you ask amateurs to act as front-line security personnel, you shouldn’t be surprised when you get amateur security ‘
Great quote! When will we learn the lesson that there is no such thing as a free lunch…BOOK: Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware – Tim Stall
‘ This is a good example of a higher-level, “non-syntax” book, something that transcends the “How to program XYZ” genre ‘My pitch for Grails in Action – Jonas Bandi
Book review. If you want to try another framework for web development for a changeApplication Life Cycle Management Reference Architecture and TFS/Project Server Connector – Mike Walker
StackOverflow DevDays: Five New Cities – Joel Spolsky
Watch out, StackOverflow is taking over the world! Amsterdam includedHow to Tide Over Organizational Politics? – Vikas Hazrati
‘ (…) though politics would be a definite ingredient of any organization, the key for Agile teams is to base their proposals and decisions on facts, consensus and other attributes of good politics ‘Interfaces with static methods, reducing the cost of extensibility – Sebastien Lambla
‘ Someone last week mentioned that Java was now getting static methods defined on interfaces. We’ve had that capacity, through extension methods, since C#3, and is one pattern I keep on reusing ‘Open Space, an agile way of meeting – Mendelt Siebenga
Mendelt co-organised the first agile Open Space Code day in the Netherlands. I was sorry for not attending this meeting where participants seem to have had great fun. But at least I can linkblog it
Using Scrum on Larger Projects: “Scrum of Scrums” – Kelly Waters
Scrum not suitable for big projects? Kelly has other experiences: taking some precautions, Scrum can be scaled up to a pretty big scaleBreaking All The Rules with WCF – Scott Hanselman
Scott took the plunge and dove into a non Windows/.NET Web Service infrastructure over at a client and did some svcutil.exe and wsdl.exe wizardry to get things in orderFeature Tour – Zen – Lean Project Management
Great looking new PM web tool built on ASP.NET MVC. In the agile spirit it’s free for one project so why should you *not* try and see whether it works for you!
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