LINKBLOG for June 29, 2009
Jun 29th, 2009 by AZuidhof
IDE vs. vim is integration testing vs. unit testing – Giorgio Sironi
Unit Testing EJB 3.1 …When 0.8 Seconds Are Too Long [SOURCE CODE INCLUDED] – Adam Bien
Five step process for removing viruses and spyware from client machines – Erik Eckel
Or your own machine, of courseConvention Over Configuration with Jeremy Miller – Hanselminutes #167
Google doesn’t close its HTML tags, on purpose
Google getting sloppy for a reasonUniversal Phone Charger is on the Way. If you’re in the EU anyway – Zee
Would be great if we could finally diss that enormous amount of chargers!For Every Optimization, There’s a Pyramid, So Get Started – Brendan Regan
Death Marches and Zombies – Adam Goucher
12 Essential Rules to Follow When Designing a Logo – Jarkko Laine
‘ The logo is the face of any brand — the very first impression — so its design is extremely important ‘
Twelve absolutely useful tips if you ever get to design a logoGetting Started with Grails – Refcardz
‘ Grails is a full-stack web application framework built on top of popular open source frameworks such as Spring, Hibernate, Ant, and JUnit ‘Changing Configuration Settings in a Desktop Client Application – Rick Strahl
Are You In A Claustrophobic Team? – Max Pool
‘ Something that never ceases to humor me is how managers still believe that scaling people on a project will increase the productivity by an equal proportion ‘
That’s because managers tend to develop themselves slower than developers
The Blurring Lines of Languages – Justin Etheredge
What Investing Can Teach You About Software Development (Part 2) – Jeremy Jarrell
Web Dev .NET: ASP.NET MVC & jQuery Part 1: Adding jQuery Intellisense to VS 2008 – Elijah Manor
Making your code easier to understand context/specification style unit tests – Ian Cooper
Don’t Create Aggregate Roots – Udi Dahan
The Three Stages of an Idea – Rajesh Setty
Think, tinker, take off. Nice find!Python Web Framework Series – Pylons: Part 4 Introduction For Database Support With SQL Alchemy – Ryan Svihla
Coding Tip #42: turning enums into classes – Sarah Taraporewalla
how to get frombooltoenumto (if you want) to full-fledgedclassAnother Kata: Expression Tokenizer – Brett Schuchert
Top 200 Blogs for Developers (Q2 2009) – Jurgen Appelo
Jurgen has once again done an amazing job of sampling the world’s best development blogsAn Evolutionary Perspective of Software Development – Amr Elssamadisy
The Myth of the Genius Programmer – John Hunter
‘ Nice talk on fear of looking foolish. The speakers discuss the idea that visibility is good. Don’t hide. Make everything visible and the benefit from many people’s ideas ‘Code quality for teams – Niclas Nilsson
JQuery in Action – Great book – ISerializable – Roy Osherove
‘ Lots of useful information, especially for a web newbie like me (I used to hate html related activities until $() came along) ‘Umbraco tip of the week: Redirects – Sebastiaan
Real World Refactoring – Joshua Flanagan
9 Excellent Regular Expression Resources – ResourceMania
How to Build a High-Traffic Blog Without Killing Yourself – Tim Ferriss
Tim’s view on how to become a hugely popular blogger, while keeping your sanityPrincipals, Code-Behind, & View Engines – K. Scott Allen
Elegant Code Project Structure Purse Fight – Elegant Code crew
transcript of an interesting discussionThe Road to Agile Growth (again) – Jennifer
Interesting start post on how to get to the optimal Scrum team
‘ Aside from the obvious answer: ‘just reorganize and staff it’, what are the strategic and tactical steps we can do along the way to get there? ‘
via Twitter / Mike Cottmeyer

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