LINKBLOG for August 3, 2009
Aug 3rd, 2009 by AZuidhof
On Open Source Software, Itches, and Documentation – Steve Bohlen
What’s hard about activating screens? – Jeremy D. Miller
UI patterns refactored – Introduction – Mendelt Siebenga
TDD as if you meant it – revisited – Gojko Adzic
Refactoring Day 1 : Encapsulate Collection – Sean Chambers
Your domain model isn’t in the Entity Relationship Diagram – Ayende Rahien
MVVM Study Part 2 – “View of the Model” or “Model of the View” ? – Rob Eisenberg
Leading Agile: Interesting Post… 7/26/2009 through 8/1/2009 – Mike Cottmeyer
Mike links to a lot of interesting agile via Twitter and kindly makes all the past weeks links available in this postStrong opinions, weakly held – Mark Needham
Which means something along the lines of…. ‘ we shouldn’t sit on the fence but instead have an opinion that we research thoroughly and are prepared to back up ‘Think for yourself – Jason Yip
Please don’t use pie charts – John Graham-Cumming
Bear shaving – Seth Godin
‘ Global warming a problem? Just shave the bears ‘How Does Spyware, Malware or Crapware Get on My Computer? – Asian Angel
Reducing the bounce rate of tech blogs with Subtext and Lucene.net – Simone Chiaretta
‘ In this post I’m going to explain the reason behind my decision to introduce Lucene.net into Subtext to power the internal search engine ‘Book review: How to Manage in a Flat World – Elizabeth Harrin
Anything That Is General Is Not Helpful – Glen Alleman
Understanding Before Tailoring (guest post) – Scott Duncan
‘ like many new things in software development, not just agile methods, this adoption across the chasm shows signs of how people became involved with case technology, ISO 9001, CMM, etc. in the late 80s and 90s ‘.NET resource management by “take’em down with me” – Rishi
Microsoft Visio Open Source Alternatives(1/3) – Haroon Idrees
The Most 10 Common Mistakes Web Designers Make – Cameron Chapman
LINQ To Entities, SQL and performance – Gunnar Peipman
Beginning LINQ for DBAs and database folks – Lee Everest
This Is Why I Don’t Like Microsoft’s Way Of Open Source Development – Davy Brion
Davy is looks into Microsoft’s Unity project on Codeplex and is less than happy with what he finds….: ‘ With such sporadic check-ins (…) there’s no reason to even begin working on a patch because who knows when you’ll get a code drop that officially has the patch ‘What is a good optimization algorithm? A data-driven method for algorithm selection – Jason Brownlee
‘ (…) An algorithm or method is as good its name, as useful and interesting as it is abundant ‘5 books to change your point of view – Giorgio Sironi
Tech meccas: The 12 holy sites of IT | Adventures in IT – Dan Tynan
‘ You can’t call yourself a true IT pro until you’ve visited at least one of the “holy sites” where computing history was made ‘
via Twitter / CodingHorrorApplication Portfolio Management (APM) – Vineet Baata
via Twitter/KeesDijkReflector.Babel Addin (alpha) – Jason Haley

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