LINKBLOG for June 16, 2009
Jun 16th, 2009 by AZuidhof
7 Ways To Be Happier At Work – Rich Whittle
‘ Smile. Turns out, smiling is directly linked to happiness ‘ It really helps!Facebook, Hadoop and Hive – Eran Kampf
‘ Facebook has the second largest installation of Hadoop (a software platform that lets one easily write and run distributed applications that process vast amounts of data), Yahoo being the first ‘Help! Why can’t I use DataTriggers with controls in WPF? – Josh Twist
Ducks In A Row: Sparking Innovation – Miki Saxon
‘ Are you looking for a good way to make your company or group more innovative? To move it from where it is to where you want it to be? ‘Windows API Code Pack 0.90 – Sasha Goldshtein
‘ It’s an open source .NET library which provides interop wrappers to Windows 7 (and Windows Vista) features ‘Set Gmail as Default Email Client in Firefox – Alex Chitu
This super simple tip is gonna save me a lot of waiting for Outlook to fire upThe latest version of Opera turns your browser into a web server – Ralf Rottmann
Really?10 Awesome Tools To Get More Out of Wikipedia – Abhijeet Mukherjee
Haven’t really looked at these in the past, but there’s a lot of services built on top of Wikipedia that rather improve the usability. Gonna have a look at Navify and others. What about converting Wikipedia articles to MP3 with PedioPhon, for your jogging?Url Shorteners: Destroying the Web Since 2002 – Jeff Atwood
‘ Every tiny URL is another baby step towards destroying the web as we know it. Which is exactly what you’d want to do if you’re attempting to build a business on top of the ruins ‘C# 4.0: Dynamic Lookup – Luis Abreu
Speeding up the build – ditch the SSD and go for the RAM drive – Jeffrey Palermo
Jeffrey makes an unexpected observation ‘ I really though that Solid-State drives would be the ticket to faster builds (…) The drivers, firmware, and the drive cache all make them pretty snappy (…) For now, I’m going to bump up RAM and investigate competing RAM drive products ‘Fill My Prism Region, Please – John Papa
‘ I wanted to create a background that dims the entire page while the progress control is up and running. Easy stuff … ‘
Unfortunately no easy as John initially thought…Learning Asp.Net MVC Framework – Chrsi Brandsma
Functional Collection Parameters: Handling the null collection – Mark Needham
‘ The code is on the boundary of our application’s interaction with another service so it is actually a valid scenario that we could receive a null collection ‘Transactions are bad for REST – Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz
IFormatProvider for North American Phone Numbers – Greg Duncan
‘ What problem does this solution solve
Re-formatting and normalizing irregularly entered/stored North American phone numbers ‘Code Contracts Primer – Part 4: Utilizing Pre & Post Conditions – Derik Whittaker
Democratization of IT: Creating WebParts for SharePoint Without IT Operations – Kirk Evans
‘ The more that developers and IT operations can enable the end users to be self-sufficient, the more value that the business will see in IT ‘
eric says it’s a mistake to think technology will solve *all* your issues… ‘ I think the purpose of technology is to make specific tasks easier ‘Automagic Time Localization – Nate Kohari
‘ One of the most often-overlooked and easy to fix things encountered when developing a hosted software application is the management of local time ‘Agile open source – Tobiassvn
Isolating Dependencies in Tests Using Mocks and Stubs – Claudio Lasalla
‘ To test a class, a developer must make sure that the class’s dependencies won’t interfere with its unit tests. Enter mocks and stubs ‘Resisting Dependency Injection – Patrick Kua
” How to write code that makes dependency injection more difficult than it needs to be ‘A developer’s guide to load testing – video – Simon Brown
Welcome dear visitor! I'm your host, Arjan Zuidhof. Have a look around on this opinionated linkblog, take a peek at the links, and if you like what you see, don't forget to subscribe to the feed (at the top, on your right) and receive fresh links daily in your reader.
Dutch? You might be interested in my -new!!!- link blog 