LINKBLOG for June 12, 2009
Jun 12th, 2009 by AZuidhof
Observing And Understanding Genuine Builders – Part 7 – Rajiv Popat
NHibernate : Some Naked Thoughts – Karl Seguin
Nontraditional cures for keeping a project on schedule and on budget – Susan Harkins
Great Virtual Teams: Rule 3: Hold The Team Together – Bas de Baar
Build a better test bench for your IT consultancy – Erik Eckel
‘ IT consultants typically pride themselves on their tech skills, which usually shine on the work bench ‘You’re Not Your Data Access – Rob Conery
Should you learn frameworks or principles – Ian Cooper
‘ If anything the industry has moved on from those nuts and bots frameworks, and the abstractions have gotten better. Less and less do you need to understand the how and more and more the why? ‘Single Level of Abstraction Principle – Mark Needham
‘ One of the other useful principles for writing readable code that I’ve come across in the last year or so is the Single Level of Abstraction PrincipleThe Science of Computing and the Engineering of Software – Tony Hoare
Adopting Agile Practices – Amr Elssamadisy
Presentation – ‘ how to choose the best practices for your organization depending on its context and it’s highest priority business values and/or smells ‘New Security Model: Moving to a Better Sandbox – CLR Team Blog
‘ For .Net Framework 4, we decided to remove the dependency on caspol and the policy levels and make things simpler ‘Input Builders for ASP.NET MVC series continues from Eric Hexter – Jeffrey Palermo
Eric Hexter is continuing his multi-part series on Opinionated Input Builders.Blend and Visual Studio – Why Two Tools? – Shawn Wildermuth
‘ Blend needs to be separate because its primarily for a Designer/UX role that isn’t comfortable with the breadth of Visual Studio ‘How to Alter Your Work Schedule to Accommodate Personal Projects – Celine Roque
What does the optimize switch do? – Eric Lippert
Long tech explanationASP.NET MVC and SOLID Programming Principles June 2009 – Steve Smith
Team Build Screensaver in WPF – Martin Woodward
Cool stuff!Do not forget Array – Alkapfer
In Praise of the Common DBA – Tony Davis
Visual Studio: Why is there no 64 bit version? (yet) – Rico Mariani
Unit Testing Interfaces with xUnit Theories – Ade Miller
The Most Powerful Development Tool Ever Made – Justin Etheredge
‘ You’d be amazed at what you’ll find lurking in the .NET framework, and the world of code that exists out there in the open source community ‘Simplest versus first thing that could possibly work – Jimmy Bogard
‘ aking just five minutes to think of a different approach can save man-hours (or days even) further down the road ‘Workplace Trends: The End of Cubicle Dwelling? – Dawn Foster
‘ I see more and more people joining the remote web worker ranks every day, and I’m not the only one seeing this trend ‘Direct and useful project feedback- Seth Godin
‘ I’m not talking about annual reviews (which are stupid). I’m talking about how you work as a client for a project that needs to make something ‘
Once again clear talk from SethEffective Strategy To Estimate Time For Your Design Projects – Sam Barnes
‘ there are also some secret reasons why web projects are commonly underestimated ‘Ethical Foundations of Cybersecurity – Kim Cameron
An easy way to hack unvalidated web input – Tim Stall
‘ Many security bugs get overlooked because hackers use “special” tools that give them options that the original developers anticipate ‘Google Launches A Guide to Enterprise Apps Deployment – Steven Walling
“Good enough” instead of “absolutely perfect” – Brenton
‘ (…) instead of carefully drawing each letter and placing them together, I practiced a few times and just wrote each one out as quickly and naturally as if I was writing in my notebook ‘
Striving for perfection will hardly ever be worthwile. A great thought to master!Why Web Developers Don’t Need A Mac – Michael Martin
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