LINKBLOG for June 18, 2009
Jun 18th, 2009 by AZuidhof
What Lists Do You Always Keep Accessible and Updated? – Erin Schwendemann
‘ Starting and keeping a list isn’t too difficult, of course; it’s keeping it updated and on hand that proves to be the challenge ‘Functional Collection Parameters: A different way of thinking about collections – Mark Needham
NHibnerate : Handling the Special Cases – Karl Seguin
Kent Beck Suggests Skipping Testing for Very Short Term Projects – Mark Levison
‘ Kent estimated it would take several hours to write a test for it. In this case he just fixed it and shipped ‘
Which leads to an interesting back-and-forth right in this articleMore on Late-Bound Invocations with Expression Trees – Jimmy Bogard
Determine Whether an Assembly was compiled in Debug Mode – Steve Smith
Ah yes. Brings back vivid memories to the time we realised some former developers had put the debug version of an application in production. There were some weird issues that were not happening in the debug version (sounds strange, but true), so they thought ‘what the heck’ and just went ahead.FireBug – Soon Hui
‘ I am not going back to use Firefox as my browsing browser; I am using Firefox as my Javascript development ‘Understanding Garbage Collection in .NET – Andrew Hunter
‘ Once you understand how .NET’s garbage collector works, then the reasons for some of the more mysterious problems that can hit a .NET application become much clearer ‘Video: Building great standards based websites for the big wide world with ASP.NET 4.0 – Tatham Oddie
Windows equivalents of ps and kill commands – Richard Dingwall
Did you knowtasklistbehaves like the UNIXpscommand?Dynamic type inference and surprising possibilities – Jon Skeet
Mindbogglingly bad design – Coding Sanity
‘ Okay, I’m back. I’ve dried my eyes and am now prepared to recount one of the most STUPID WTF’s in programming history! ‘We Can Mock It Out – Vagif Abilov
Great song!Observing And Understanding Genuine Builders – Part 10 – Rajiv Popat
‘ Have you worked with a manager who gets a strange perverted kick in ordering your team to stay late? ‘More about Business Value – Pascal Van Cauwenberghe
‘ A business value model is useful without numbers, when prioritising by relative business value ‘Create a Realistic Candy Bar in Illustrator – Wendy Ding
‘ With vector shapes, the objects can be preserved and edited infinitely which is a great advantage over raster objects ‘
A call to action to dust off your rusty design skills in this elaborate Illustrator tutorialMystery Code Theater Presents ‘Dr. Serializer and the Case of the Mysterious Failing Unit Tests” – Jeremy Jarrell
‘ Here’s a really tricky issue that we just figured out today, hopefully this will help someone else out, as well ‘Bizarre Bugs: Nine of the Strangest Software Glitches Ever – Harry McCracken
via Twitter / Kees Dijk5 Components Your Business Web Site Needs – Susan Baroncini-Moe
Symbol & Source Server Support coming in TFS 2010 – Greg Duncan
Moving Away From Large Event Handling Methods – Brendan Enrick
‘ If you’re not working towards writing better code every time you write code, you’re probably making code worse ‘
Like that attitude!Strive for low coupling and high cohesion What does that even mean – Sammy Larbi
‘ It’s a great scam, don’t you think? Someone asks a question about how to design their code, and we have these two nebulous words to throw back at them: coupling and cohesion ‘Where’s my MVC nested Master Page? – Mendelt Siebenga
Mendelt is investigating the bowels of ASP.NET MVCBlink – The Power of Thinking Without Thinking – Hans-Eric Grönlund
‘ Interesting on the first impression calculator within our brains ‘Shut up! Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them – Derek Sivers
‘ It may seem unnatural to keep your intentions and plans private, but try it. If you do tell a friend, make sure not to say it as a satisfaction ‘
Uh, OK. And don’t ask, because I won’t tell
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