LINKBLOG for June 25, 2009
Jun 25th, 2009 by AZuidhof
How to Eliminate Compulsive Internet Fiddling – Celine Roque
‘ We all know how painful it is to coordinate a meeting involving more than a couple of people ‘
Yup, we do. So here’s a couple web tools that might be new to youData Crunching in Haskell – OJ Reeves
‘ It made me think again about how it’d be nice to just be able to plug in whichever language we wanted whenever we felt it would do the job better than whatever the current tool is ‘
Err…say that again?Introducing: Surface User Group Netherlands – Dennis Vroegop
New user group (Dutch post)Avoid Using NHibernate With NUnit 2.4.6 – Davy Brion
‘ We just spent about 2 hours trying to find out why our NHibernate tests were about 10x slower on our build server than they were on our local machines ‘Safe refactoring: Removing object initializer, introducing builder – Mark Needham
Ubiquitous Language in Product Development – Dave Laribee
Testing MVC Elements and Interactions with Mock Container – Rinat Abdullin
E-VAN – Alan Dean talking on REST (6th July 2009) – Colin Jack
Attendee URL: http://snipr.com/virtualaltnet (Live Meeting)Asserting that a command was executed in a CAB application – Fredrik Kalseth
Linq: Beware of the ‘Access to modified closure’ demon – Frans Bouma
‘ The above code snippet has the demon embedded into itself, likely without you noticing it. Can you spot it? ‘NH Prof: Getting big, and bigger – Ayende Rahien
Working too many late nights makes you socially retarded – Richard Dingwall
‘ It was as if all my social skills had somehow been sapped — the mind was willing, but the tongue had nothing to talk about ‘Expressions Cheat Sheet – Jimmy Bogard
Just Be Honest and Tell the Truth – Jeff Perrin
‘ I’ll go through some of the tenets of XP and run them through my honesty filter ‘PM Tip #10: Interview Tips for Landing a Great Program Management Job – Brad Abrams
Better JavaScript class generation – Jay Kimble
iTextSharp – The easy way – Dave Bush
Repost: Watch out for SQL Server Parameter Sniffing – Chris Brandsma
Two frameworks are better than one – Simone Chiaretta
‘ C# already is a scripting language, and has had this feature for almost a decade ‘How to authorize a WCF service in the anonymous internet – Gerhard Stephan
10 things you should do near the end of a project – Bill Stronge
‘ When a project is winding up, some project managers skip a few important final steps. Here are several details you shouldn’t overlook when you reach the end of your next project ‘Session Attacks and ASP.NET – Part 2 – Jason Montgomery
Black belt website hardening tipsClosures, Javascript And The Arrow Of Time – Paul Houle
‘ Closures are a powerful and concise way to express your intentions to a computer: however, closures break some of the intuitive assumptions that people use to understand software ‘
If that doesn’t scare you, read onRe-writting a software application from scratch – Voxel Perfect
‘ Sometimes we have this gut feeling that we need to change things radically and head to a new completely different direction ‘
O yeah we do! Only to convince our sponsors to grant us the time is much harder.If At First You Don’t Succeed – Retrying Mail Operations in .NET – Lee Dumond
‘ The majority of mail server interruptions are very temporary in nature, lasting only a few seconds. Instead of failing right away, why not give your SMTP client another shot? ‘
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