Nov 18th, 2009 by AZuidhof
…and I’m back. Created 2 categories “programming” and “the rest”. Hope you’ll appreciate it
PROGRAMMING
THE REST
The Complete Guide to Google Wave Is a Comprehensive Book on Wave – Google Wave – Lifehacker
do you already Wave? Find me on azuidhof [AT] googlewave [DOT] com, let’s start the conversation!
Disciplanner Makes Tracking and Assessing Your Goals Simple – Jason Fitzpatrick
Tom’s Planner Is an Impressive, Intuitive Project Scheduling Tool – Adam Pash
Cool new planning tool. Try it while it’s free!
Information Pollution Alert! Living with Data Smog – Dustin Wax
‘ it’s not just that there’s too much information out there for one person to adequately encompass, it’s that there’s too much data out there to even make out the information clearly ‘
Productivity Down! An Emergency Response Guide – Organize IT
‘ We’ve all been there, and more often than not when you’ve lost your momentum it’s doubly hard to get it back again ‘
How to Achieve Critical Goals – The 4 Steps – Mr. Self Development
‘ Failure to achieve a “critical” goal renders the achievement of-all-other-goals inconsequential ‘
12 Lists That Help You Get Things Done – Dustin Wax
Want to be *really* productive with your lists? Split them up. Dustin explains how
Productivity Tips #15: Focus On That Which Matters Most – Organize IT
The Only Way to Become Amazingly Great at Something – Leo Babauta
‘ (…) don’t get discouraged if you’re just starting out. Have fun, like we all did in the beginning. If you have fun, you’ll learn to love it, and THAT’S when it clicks ‘
Searching for a Shared Virtual Workspace? – Clemens Rettich
Showdown between Google Groups and Windows Office Live
How To Focus On What Truly Matters – Sid Savara
‘ How did I end up working on all these things that aren’t who I am, and that don’t represent where I am going? ‘
What to do about it
Five Best Online Backup Tools – online backup – Jason Fitzpatrick
Don’t leave the house without an online backup plan in some way. Me? Dropbox all the time!
25 Internet Startups That Bombed Miserably – Business Pundit
Always great to read about other people’s failures. As long as you learn the lessons that can be drawn
Watch 4 Days of TED India in 4 Minutes [Video] – Amit Agarwal
This Friday I’m going to TEDx Amsterdam here in the Netherlands (well, a simulcast streaming version of it, to be exact, since I wan’t on the invitation list
). Looking really forward to it. Amit has a couple video’s from the Indian version to whet your appetite with TED, in case it’s new to you
The importance of innovation in the era of the “new normal” – Jim Carroll
‘ I’ve witnessed first hand what innovation leaders are doing to ensure that they can survive and thrive in a period of n rapid economic change ‘
13 Ways I Get Back into Blogging after a Vacation – Darren Rowse
Getting back into the flow can be hard after a holiday. Darren shows how the get back the magic inspiration of writing
The Anti-Social Network – Omer van Kloeten
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Oct 27th, 2009 by AZuidhof
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Oct 13th, 2009 by AZuidhof
And we’re back after another quiet episode. Quiet on the linkblog, though certainly not quiet for me
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Sep 29th, 2009 by AZuidhof
A fresh edition of the LINKBLOG after a period of silence. Enjoy!
SEO with ASP.NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010 – K. Scott Allen
The Things We Learn – Jim Johnson
‘ As in any new situation where you’re just thrown in, there are a number of things that you learn – some good, some useful, and a few not so good ‘
Git for Windows developers – Igor Moochnick
‘ Just moved to Git on Windows. It gives me more flexibility for the local repositories and distributed development for my new team ‘
Unit Test Definition 2.0 – ISerializable – Roy Osherove
Building an MVC Gaming Statistics Site – Setting Up the Project : Brendan Enrick
40+ Desert Island Web Development Tools – Smashing Magazine
“Getting Started with Windows Presentation Foundation” (WPF) Cheatsheet/Refcard from DZone – Greg Duncan
If Craigslist cost $1 – Seth Godin
‘ If you lead a group that allows anyone to join, for free, your group might be large, but it’s not tight, it’s not organized to make important change. Commitment slows things down in the short run, but ultimately aligns interests ‘
Perform OCR with Google Docs – Turn Scanned Images Into Editable Documents – Amit Agarwal
Cool new enhancement in Google Docs. It’s not Evernote yet, but still
ScottGu, DotNed, loads of new stuff and intellisense – Peter’s Gekko
Scott Guthrie was in the Netherlands last week. I wasn’t in the possibility to see heem, unfortunately, but the reports I heard was that it was absolutely worthwile
Beating the duct programmer with generic domains, subdomains, and core domains – Ian Cooper
Generically Constraining F# – Part II – Matthew Podwysocki
Querying mobile data objects with LINQ – Jon Udell
40 Desert Island (aka Portable) Web Dev Tools – Greg Duncan
Stability first… then speed! – Mike Cottmeyer
‘ So many folks want to flip a switch and magically become agile ‘
Which is not gonna happen
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Sep 15th, 2009 by AZuidhof
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Sep 8th, 2009 by AZuidhof
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Sep 4th, 2009 by AZuidhof
Hosted TFS for BizSpark Companies – Martin Woodward
Easy image resizing for the digital camera happy – Image Resizer Powertoy clone for Vista & Windows 7 (32 & 64 bit) – Greg Duncan
Gotchas: MSBuild Conditional Import Ignored by Visual Studio – Ade Miller
What’s the Difference, Part Five: certificate signing vs strong naming – Eric Lippert
SOLID ugly code – Richard Dingwall
Formatting Byte Arrays in PowerShell – Tomas Restrepo
Restore MS SQL Server database from within your application(s) – Wilson Kutegeka
ASP.NET MVC MvcSiteMapProvider 1.0 released – Maarten Balliauw
ASP.NET, HTML, JavaScript Snippet Support (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) – Scott Guthrie
An information visualization manifesto at Resilience Science – Garry Peterson
Coding Dojo #22: Scala, lamdaj, Project Euler – Mark Needham
QuickNet On Google Code – Davy Brion
Let’s Build A Dev Shop (Part 1 of n) – Lee Brandt
Looks like an interesting new series on good development practices!
Avoiding Local Authentication Issues with SharePoint Sites using Host Headers – Damon Armstrong
25 Examples of Web 2.0 and Traditional Design Rules Coming Together – Josh Sears
Joe Maddon on team building – Adam Goucher
The ORM Brouhaha – Tony Davis
ASP.NET MVC & Twitter Integration – getting inside ‘Hello’ – Matt Lee
Professional Team Management Tips For Creative Folks – Andy Butterworth
Answer: The lazy loaded inheritance many to one association OR/M conundrum – Ayende Rahien
‘ Yesterday I presented an interesting problem that pop up with any OR/M that supports inheritance and lazy loading ‘
UI without code or XAML: PropertyGrid, DataForm, etc – Kirill Osenkov
DDD: Repository Implementation Patterns – Jimmy Bogard
‘ In many DDD implementations, the use of a Repository is widened to go beyond retrieval, but the other pieces in the CRUD acronym ‘
Using Oslo to Speed Up Database Development – Stephen Forte
Brownfield development – other ideas? – Howard Dierking
Creative Idea for Improving Your ReSharper Skills – Russell Ball
‘ I exported a snapshot from the ReSharper Default Keymap pdf and set it as my desktop background ‘
What a great idea! At least make it the background as long as you’re still learning the shortcuts!
Thoughts on C# 4.0’ optional parameters – Krzysztof Kozmic
RSS isn’t Dead (Just Ask Executives) – Steven Walling
Google Docs and Google Groups Come Together: It’s a Good Thing – Darrell Etherington
Google Wave Arrives This Month: Are You Ready? – Ben Parr
Top Ten Tips for An Agile Coach – Mark Levison
Passion and Talent – Mike Griffiths
‘ You cannot really fake passion, it is the raw unfiltered outflow that makes it recognizable as genuine ‘
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Aug 27th, 2009 by AZuidhof
Hi there! I’m glad your following along with the Linkblog. Unfortunately for you – but fortunately for me
– some new things have come up on my radar recently that require my attention. And that you might hear about in due time. Staying 100% on top of the software development blogosphere is getting harder for me. So hard in fact that I decided to scale down a bit.
What are the consequences? At least that the frequency the Linkblog is being published will be a little irregular, depending on available time. No more daily updates, but when there is one, it will be current stuff. Not a rehash of the past days: my intention remains to provide you with fresh links only. For the rest: time will tell whether I’ll go back to the regular schedule. Nothing to say about that yet…
Take care, then I’ll do the same!
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Aug 27th, 2009 by AZuidhof
This edition comes in late. That’s related to the message that follows shortly
Windows 7 – User Experience Design – Andries van der Meulen
The Largest Wicked Problem in Software is Politics and Management – Jak Charlton
Lacking Confidence – Christopher Bennage
‘ Despite the fact that I don’t officially care what others think, I frequently base my actions on the anticipated responses of others.
Christopher makes a confession that is wholesome for him, and probably for more of us
Refactoring Day 25 : Introduce Design By Contract checks – Sean Chambers
Sysinternals 101 – “Notes from the field,” a quick intro to a few Sysinternals utilities (Process Explorer, TCPView, Process Monitor, VMMap) – Greg Duncan
LINQ to NHibernate: A Vast Improvement – Russell Ball
VSTS Rangers Site is now live – A great resource for serious VSTS/TFS users – Greg Duncan
Caching Key Generation Considerations – Steve Smith
Michael C. Feathers: Seven Blind Alleys in Software Design – Jonas Bandi
Video of Michael Feathers. Transcript included
Book Review: Trust Agents – Eric Brown
Building Remarkable Work And Play Environments – Part 12 – Rajiv Popat
‘ The incident was an interesting insight into what alpha-geeks and genuine builders expect out of their organization when it comes to logo-wear and toys ‘
The Project Manager And Social Media (presentation) – Bas de Baar
‘ This presentation will explain how social media can solve communication problems specific for today’s and future projects, and how these tools help PMs improve their own skills.” ‘
Some “Developers” Just Can’t Develop – Richard Banks
‘ (…) the slow realisation dawned on me that I’d been lied to. I know – I’m quick off the mark aren’t I? ‘
Oops!
You don’t know what you’ve got until you get it – Willem van den Ende
‘ (…) many potential users will have the same idea as me: they already have a solution that works for them, so they are not going to try this new thing out ‘
Design Patterns Explained – Stanley Kubasek
review of the book by this title
Build Your Own Data Access Layer: Hydrating Entities – Davy Brion
‘ Note: This post is part of a series. Be sure to read the introduction here ‘
Castle WCF facility and bit of channel reconnection – Bart Reyserhove
Host .NET Applications on Rackspace Cloud Servers with Mono – Rinat Abdullin
‘ Let’s talk about deploying .NET applications on Linux-driven Cloud Servers offered by the Rackspace (“Slicehost” and “Mosso” brands) ‘
Wrap-up: Doing More with Less – James Kovacs
Null References: The Billion Dollar Mistake
Tony Hoare on how he “invented” the null reference, and that this is the mistake of his lifetime
Giving and Receiving Effective Feedback – Mark Levison
Agile Testing versus Waterfall Test Phases – Kellly Waters
Introduction to DDD for the implementation oriented – Jettro Coenradie
5 Copywriting Tips For Any Sized Business – Monika Mundell
‘ Copywriting, according to Wikipedia is described as “getting across the perfect message, with the perfect words ‘
And here’s how to do it
Book review: Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 – Maarten Balliauw
Maarten reviews this new book co-written by Simone Chiaretta and Keyvan Nayyeri:
‘ If you need a book which gives you the basics and some more advanced topics, Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 is really for you ‘
The Social Web Isn’t Just for the Young Anymore – Jennifer Martinez
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Aug 25th, 2009 by AZuidhof
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