LINKBLOG for August 11, 2009
Aug 11th, 2009 by AZuidhof
Work as Play – Leo Babauta
‘ Life is what you make of it. It can be drudgery, or it can be play. Or something else entirely ‘
Read the whole post! It might just change your life. Or your career. Or both.Recession Proof Your Programming Skills (Listmania-ed) – Nick Berardi
Free PowerShell eBook – Microsoft Watcher
How to Compete Against Open Source Competition – Rob Walling
Is Quality an Absolute? – Mike Cottmeyer
Self-Enforcing Protocols – Bruce Schneier
‘ Modern voting systems are rife with the potential for cheating, but an open show of hands in a room — one that everyone in the room can count for himself — is self-enforcing ‘NerdDinner with Fluent NHibernate Part 1 – The domain model
Precedence vs order, redux – Eric Lippert
StyleCop update 4.3.2.1 is released – StyleCop blog
What would you do if you weren’t in development/design job? – Janko Jovanovic
Improved type safety when dealing with generic types, generic methods and reflection – Daniel Cazzulino
Expression Trees, Take Two – Introducing System.Linq.Expressions v4.0 – Bart de Smet
Trying to delete a file but it’s “Locked” or “In Use?” – Free LockHunter to the rescue (beta) – Greg Duncan
I personally use Unlocker for this task. Great tool. LockHunter looks OK tooRefactoring Day 10 : Extract Method – Sean Chambers
JQuery: utility functions IX – transforming arrays – Luis Abreu
The Lounge’s James Avery on Bootstrapping Your Own Company – Bobby Johnson
webcast/videoHow to create a DropDownList with ASP.NET MVC – Simone Chiaretta
8 Great Ways to Motivate Yourself When You Just Don’t Feel Like It – Jason Barr
Gifts to your future self – John Graham-Cumming
Nice small tip!Manage Your PDF Documents with Free Tools – Amit Agarwal
17 Techniques for Creating Designs Inspired by Nature – Kayla Knight
Running a hospital: Problem must be visible!
Great wisdom: ‘ When you put problem in computer, box hide answer. Problem must be visible! ‘
via Jason YipSoftware Debt Adds Up to Substantive Costs – Shane Hastie
The benefits of XCopy deployment – Patrick Smacchia
Choose The Right Goals – Davy Brion
Davy has some truly good career advice for those of you who recently started in the industry. And no, striving to become lead developer ASAP is not one of the tips…on the contrary
‘ Focus on what is truly important to you, the values that make you enjoy whatever it is that you do all day ‘Mastering CSS, Part 2: Advanced Techniques and Tools – Cameron Chapman
I abandoned CSS stuff a long time ago, but vividly remember the intricacies involved in getting layout rightGetting a Wedgie on the Last Mile (guest post) – Julian Simpson
‘ Does your code work on your computer? Nobody should care. Sorry ‘The Case of the Temporary Registry Profiles – Mark Russinovich
Good to see that the Windows case files are still alive, be it anemic10 Must-Follow Usability Experts on Twitter – Nick Gould
We Aren’t Too Stupid for Polyglot Programming – Robert Fischer
Who wrote the most successful lines of code in the world? – Alon Aizenberg
Visualising Sorting Algorithms: Python’s timsort – Aldo Cortesi

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