LINKBLOG for August 10, 2009
Aug 10th, 2009 by AZuidhof
The effect of values on system development project outcomes – Craig Brown
Book review: The Lazy Project Manager – Elizabeth Harrin
Using Pex in more complex environment a tale of – Alkampfer
JQuery: utility functions V – finding elements in an array – Luis Abreu
Quick look at STM.NET performance – Pawel Pabich
‘ STM as an idea looks interesting and definitely has a lot of advantages over regular locking. It helps prevent deadlocks (…) ‘ read onExpression as a Compiler -Marc Gravell
Dreyfus Model: More thoughts – Mark Needham
*** How to Roll Code 24 Hours a Day and Sleep Like a Baby – Chad B. Harris
Great thing. A bit long, but take the time to read it completey!Do we really need Favoriting AND Retweeting on Twitter? Combine the two like this – Zee
Neat idea. Who’s gonna try it and tell me if it works?Database Trampled by Godzilla View – Tony Davis
‘ For the older generation of SQL developers, discouraging the use of views is tantamount to accusing a respectable aging dowager of immorality. No way! ‘Implementing Team City for .NET Projects, Part 5: Deployments – Richard Cirerol
Coding Contest: Create a Programming Pearl – Tim Barcz
Finding Memory Leaks In Silverlight With WinDbg – Davy Brion
UI patterns refactored – Divide and conquer – Mendelt Siebenga
‘ The first part of this series will look at how different UI patterns divide responsibilities between their components ‘Windows 7 Boot from VHD – A Few Gotchas – Howard Dierking
The Rails identity crisis – Adam Milligan
Ensure test coverage when refactoring to mocks – Wendy Friedlander
Great teams are made with ‘character’ – Adam Goucher
‘ Extremely talented people tend to be demanding and individualistic. For that reason, many organizations seem more comfortable with average performers who may be easier to manage but won’t have what it takes when times are tough ‘
Right on!Imposing the Edges Later – Michael Feathers
On lazy evaluationUnit Testing is Not Required for Small Applications – Mohammad Azam
Strong Brains are Good Brains (aka “use it or lose it” or “Yum, brains good, says zombie horde”) – Greg Duncan
‘ 100 Brain building links, utilities, games and exercises ‘Refactoring Day 8 : Replace Inheritance with Delegation – Sean Chambers
‘ (…) this isn’t a blog about how to do TDD in a functional language. Rather, it’s a blog about the similarities between the two disciplines ‘xUnit.net 1.5 Beta Released – Brad Wilson
‘ Working with people is a lot like working with code. New relationships are green fields. Over time they become brown fields and (just like code) they require maintenance ‘
Nice insight, coupling programming with human relationTop 10 Tips Working Developers Should Know about Windows 7 – Scott Hanselman
5 min. screencast: Live Geometry overview – Kirill Osenkov
‘ Microsoft sponsored a usability study for my side project Live Geometry, and I have to say, it was awesome ‘Challenge your teams to be better – Igor Moochnick
‘ why not to pose the general improvement as a challenge in front of a team and in front of each and every developer on the team? ‘Should Programming Work be Billed in Hours? – Soon Hui
” (…) if a developer bills on research time, this means that he would charge the job cheaper if he gets to do the same job again because he no longer needs to research ‘
‘ (…) .Net already has several decent BDD frameworks and many of you will chastise me for adding yet another framework when really BDD has nothing to do with what testing framework you use ‘The Book Stalker – Michael Lopp
‘ My office bookshelf. Slightly in disarray, but a massive visual reminder of what I love about books… you hold them ‘
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