LINKBLOG for June 19, 2009
Jun 19th, 2009 by AZuidhof
How do ASP.NET Application_ Events Work – Rick Strahl
‘ If you’ve worked with ASP.NET for any amount of time you probably know about the global.asax file and its backing global class that holds event handlers for several common HttpApplication Event Handlers ‘One day with Balsamiq Mockups: a review – Christopher Bennage
Eric Evans: Why do efforts to replace legacy systems fail? – Gojko Adzic
One Curse a Day Keeps the Burnout Away – Jurgen Appelo
‘ my personal approach to stress relief is to curse and swear at my computer whenever it doesn’t do what I expect (which is quite often) ‘
And people, this “dutch approach” might help more than you think!Daily Dev Speedup – Commenting and Uncommenting Code Quickly – Brendan Enrick
Does jQuery Make Us Lazy? – Dave Bush
‘ saying that using a library or a new language that abstracts the previous generation of programming tools makes us lazy just doesn’t make sense ‘Upgrade TortoiseSVN, switch shortcut key for OK – Jeffrey Palermo
Making a Unit Test Framework agnostic Assertion in C# – Eric Hexter
Opening a Command Prompt for the solution in Visual Studio – Garry Shutler
‘ Something I’ve found myself needing to do more recently is open a command prompt at the root directory of my solution. Often this is to run a rake task or something like that ‘
Now Garry found a better wayUse your legs, not your back – Eric Lippert
‘ In C# you can “lift”, “raise” and “hoist”, and they all mean different things ‘
I guess Fowler meant it this way, but hey, the guy isn’t dead yet
Silverlight 3 with Tim Heuer – Hanselminutes Podcast 164
If you understand the title this post is for you!Risk Calculators: Finance Geeks Use Open API to Crunch Market Numbers – Mathew Honan
‘ Jesper Andersen and Toby Segaran had the same thought: There has to be a better way of measuring corporate credit risk ‘Community Medical Care Sucesses – John Hunter
‘ Hopefully those that have taken decades to get around to dealing with the health care crisis will listen to these success stories ‘Revisiting Memoization – Matthew Podwysocki
The next project: embracing the rich client – Bart Reyserhove
Umbraco tip of the week – Debugging from within the website – Sebastiaan
A good old fashioned flame war – Mendelt Siebenga
‘ I want to take stand right here. I never saw waterfall work! ever! (…) Sometimes teams of exceptionally good developers did succeed. Not because of waterfall but in spite of it ‘
I love it when people say it like it is. Mendelt is one of them not hesitating voicing his opinion every now and then
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