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LINKBLOG for July 5, 2009

AZuidhof — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:18:24 +0000

SubSonic 3.0 is Released - Rob Conery
Evil code of the day - Jon Skeet
‘ At a glance, this code doesn’t look particularly evil. What does it do though? Compile it with the C# 4.0b1 compiler and run it… ‘
Multithreading: a final example on how CompareExchange might help you - Luis Abreu
Why does Microsoft bother with Internet Explorer? - Craig Bailey
DDD in a distributed world video - Gojko Adzic
video
What’s wrong with Outlook? - Tatham Oddie
Day #4: Communicating Between Two Silverlight Controls - Jeff Blankenburg
Python Web Framework Series – Pylons Part 7: Refactoring, Deployment And Wrap-Up - Ryan Svihla
Domain Driven Design: Conformist - Mark Needham
3 imperfect strategies for system test data management - Jason Yip
DELETE Documents from CouchDB - Jan Van Ryswyck
The Problem with Big Design Up Front is the “Big” not the “Up Front” - Scott Bellware
Dude, I can do reports - Björn Rochel
Hey Developer, the product you create is your code - Mark Nijhof
‘ So if the functionality and behavior is not the product you deliver, than what is it?
It is your CODE. ‘
Is the remote control a thing of the past? - Leon Bambrick
‘ We humans used to be almighty atheletes, then the TV was invented ‘
Web Trend Map 4 Goes Interactive, Beta Version Drops July 14th - Doug Coleman
XHTML 2 To Be Aborted - Abhijit Nadgouda

LINKBLOG for July 3, 2009

AZuidhof — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:53:50 +0000

Building Remarkable Work And Play Environments - Part 2 - Rajiv Popat
HandleUnknownAction in ASP.NET MVC – Be Careful - David Hayden
Agents of Change / When you’ve lost the room - Adam Goucher
‘ Being an Agent of Change is fun and certainly rewarding as there is often a bug finding multiplier for fixing a busted process ‘
Study says Patents Hurt Innovation - Dana Oshiro
Yeah, and? Isn’t that sort of common knowledge? Patents can be abused to protect intellectual property, preventing others from innovating on top of patented products
Azure - My head in the cloud - Yves Goeleven
Reading Books in a Parallel and Non-Sequential Way - Jurgen Appelo
‘ (…) with so much literature available, you run the risk of not reading the stuff that is most relevant to your current situation.
So here’s what I do ‘
GETting Documents From CouchDB - Jan Van Ryswyck
The correct answer is “no” - Eric Lippert
‘ there are at least two thick slabs of bone between your brain and everyone else’s brain. Those thick slabs of bone impede telepathy ‘
Your Organization’s Version Control System is a Production Environment - D. P. Bullington
EQATEC Profiler and .net cf Profiling (and regular .net) - Chris Brandsma
TODO List - Mike Taulty
‘ This is my current list of technologies that are buzzing around in my head, nagging me to spend time on them ‘
Samples for the Undo Framework - Kirill Osenkov
Pretty Code #1 – Building SelectListItems - K. Scott Allen
‘ (…) what is the prettiest code that can change a list of Products into a collection of SelectListItems? ‘
Force NTLM protocol instead of Kerberos in IIS - Jeffrey Chilberto
Day #3: Custom Silverlight Loading Screen - Jeff Blankenburg
‘ This is the third post in my series of thirty-one, called, not surprisingly, “31 Days of Silverlight” ‘
WPF Multithreading: Using the BackgroundWorker and Reporting the Progress to the UI - Brian Lagunas
Review - Mophie Juice Pack (not the Juice Pack Air) - Scott Hanselman
Scott walking around wit an eigties phone, err.. an iPhone battery pack
The New CIO: Social Media and the Enterprise - Eric D. Brown
‘ Ahhh…Social Media. THE hot topic these days (and for some time to come I think) ‘

LINKBLOG for July 2, 2009

AZuidhof — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:25:56 +0000

jQuery – Date Picker - Dave Bush
Changing Windows Service Runtime Behavior with Typemock Isolator - Travis Illig
‘ you have this boxed service that would be perfect for your needs if only this one thing could be fixed.
So what do you do? One option: Typemock Isolator ‘
Installation of Tfs Beta 1 - Alkampfer
Book Review: The Economics of Iterative Software Development - Jim Holmes
‘ This is a lean book (small size, only 170 pages) which attempts to help managers and decision makers move to iterative approaches over waterfall ‘
Be Intentional - Steve Rowe
‘ if you don’t have enough time to do everything on your plate, think carefully about which items will not get done rather than just working on items in no particular order. It should be your intent which specific items go undone ‘
The VP-geebees - I. M. Wright
‘ It’s the end of the fiscal year. Most engineers associate this time with performance review season, but for principal-level engineers and higher it’s also executive review season ‘
Competing motives for an IT consulting engagement - Chip Camden
‘ Sometimes clients have ulterior motives for bringing in an IT consultant, such as they need to use up their budget or they need a scapegoat. Here are tips on what to do if you’re in this situation ‘
ARGHHHHH! My new boss is 30-something with absolutely no leadership or management experience! - Dan McCarthy
‘ Whenever I get these “help me my boss is driving me nuts” emails, I always try to take a look at the situation from both sides, although I never get the opportunity of hearing the other side directly ‘
Hypocrisy Leads To A Cynical Future - Miki Saxon
‘ the level of cynicism bred by this kind of hypocrisy is the truly tragic damage being done to our future ‘
Twitter API with C# example(part 1) - Paul Zubkov
Windows 7 and Windows Installer Error “Another installation is in progress” - Jason N. Gaylord
MS Robotics Studio Updated - Al Tenhundfeld
A swimlane for ad-hoc workflow - Corey Ladas
‘ Swimlanes are used to track parallel work streams within a common resource. The most typical use might be grouping composite work items with a parent ‘ read on…
Book Club: Logging - Release It (Michael Nygaard) - Mark Needham
Open Source Framework and Library Recommendations - Eric Nelson
via Abel Avram
Why are you Failing with Agile? - Mike Cottmeyer
‘ (…) why then… after all this time, effort, and money… are we still struggling with the fundamentals? Why can’t we seem to get over the hump? ‘
PUTting the Couch(DB) in Your Living Room - Jan Van Ryswyck
‘ (…) for this post I want to talk about how to create and manage documents ‘
The Utterly Thorough Guide To Awesome Application Compatibility on Windows 7 - Leon Bambrick
Microsoft Maren: Your Arabic friend - Abhishek Baxi
With this new Windows extension you can now type Arabic in Roman character
via twitter / Scott Hanselman

LINKBLOG for July 1, 2009

AZuidhof — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:21:49 +0000

Reporting against a domain model - Peter van Ooijen
Save Some Time With The Right Testrunner - Davy Brion
Agile Is NOT a Risk Management Strategy - Jurgen Appelo
‘ Last week I told you that agile is a risk management strategy. But it’s not.
I lied. (Sort of) ‘
Looking For A Mental Challenge? Here It Is - Jeff Blankenburg
‘ It’s offical. The Toughest Developer Puzzle Ever is alive and kickin’. Prepare to have your mind bent, your skills tested, and, if you’re fast enough, your home mailbox filled ‘
Try it, it’s the best thing since robozzle. A warning though: you will loose hour after hour hunting down tips to get to the next level
New MSDN Article on RIA Services Published - Brad Abrams
Get is here on MSDN
Assigning the Output of a SWITCH Statement - Windows PowerShell
Lifetime of a software methodology - Roy Osherove
Convention Over Configuration with Jeremy Miller - Hanselminutes #167
And another undoubtedly great podcast. I lack the time to listen to them. Hope you don’t (lack time)
What is Unit Testing? - Justin Etheredge
‘ Of those developers who think they know what unit testing actually means, I would be willing to bet that only about 10% really do ‘
Updated TDD Productivity Plug-in for Resharper - Eric Hexter
Low Level Bit Hacks You Absolutely Must Know - Peteris Krumins
Opinionated Input Builders – Part 9 override the default Date Time picker - Eric Hexter
Streamlining a GIT Push - Jean-Paul Boodhoo
Web Dev .NET: ASP.NET MVC & jQuery Part 2: Zebra Striping - Elijah Manor
Check out Virtual ALT.NET - Aaron Jensen
ClassCleaner updated for CodeRush/Refactor! Pro/DxCore/CodeRushXpress 2009.1.5 - Steve Bohlen
Conversation Starter: The Tools DO NOT Make the Developer - Lee Brandt
All Abstractions Are Failed Abstractions - Jeff Atwood
Using .Net 3.5 features in BlogEngine.Net widgets - Mendelt Siebenga
Mendelt desperately wanted to use the keyword var in BlogEngine.Net, so he set out to do a little web.config hacking
‘ It turned out to be really easy to switch BlogEngine.Net to C# 3.0 ‘
F#: What I’ve learnt so far - Mark Needham
slides, video, interesting stuff

LINKBLOG for June 30, 2009

AZuidhof — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:02:15 +0000

Management Craft: How to be a change agent - Lisa Haneberg
‘ Sure, we all instigate/catalyze changes from time to time. Some of us more than others. But most of the time, we are needing to pick up the ball - someone else’s ball - and make it work ‘
IllustrativeProgramming - Martin Fowler
‘ What’s the most common programming language in the world? ‘
The answer might make you aggresive. Or just surprise you if you’re the ordanary kind of human
Cool Search Engines That Are Not Google - Ryan Singel
‘ (…) for those willing to dig around, searching for search engines can reveal a treasure trove ‘
How to Contribute to Open Source (When You’re Not Exactly Scott Hanselman) - Sara Chipps
New CodePlex project: a simple Undo/Redo framework - Kirill Osenkov
How we do MVC – View models - Jimmy Bogard
‘ (…) I’m going to go over some of the main aspects of our MVC usage in a series of posts – starting with ViewModels ‘
The “Risk” of Open Source Software Support - Tim Barcz
‘ In this post I want to share an interaction that occurred this last weekend to show you that the open source ecosystem is alive and very healthy ‘
Why try new technologies? - Mark Blomsma
The void is invariant - Eric Lippert
Partial Trust ASP.NET in 4.0 - Dominick Baier
3 apps to check username availability across all sites at once - Mike Bracco
23 features of an enterprise data access layer Tim Stall
That many?
The cost of Bad Code - Maxime Rouiller
‘ Working on a Brownfield project often makes developer complain about the code being poorly written and hard to maintain. That surely sounds familiar, right? ‘
Never worry about ASP.NET AJAX’s .d again - Dave Ward
What’s that .d yu ask?
‘ By encapsulating the JSON response within a parent object, the framework helps protect against a particularly nasty XSS vulnerability ‘
Using jQuery LightBox Plugin with Cuyahoga - Ali Özgür
The Common Denominator of Successful Programmers - Dana Simer
The Four Pillars of Maintainable Software - Robert Riley
‘ Too often software design and development end up falling prey to one of two extremes: over-engineering or under-engineering/hacking ‘
Explore C# 4’s New Dynamic Types and Named/Optional Parameters - Joydip Kanjilal
Real Temp Monitors Your Overheating Laptop CPU - The How-To Geek
Windows-only tool that I’m certainly going to use on my laptop that crashes completely out-of-the-blue sometimes. Expecting heat problem, and this tool gives me more insight!
Nine Great Uses for Binder Clips - binder clips - Rosa Golijan
Indrukwekkend hoor, waar je die clips naast je Hipster PDA allemaal voor kunt gebruiken
Twitter: Let the Information Wash Over You - Scott Hanselman
‘ When you get started on Twitter the shear amount of crap can be totally overwhelming ‘
5 Tips to Become a High-Achiever - Scott Halford
‘ Flow isn’t just for pro athletes. It’s for anyone who wants to get to the next level. It’s not as hard you might think to be a high-achiever ‘
O yeah, I can relate to that. What’s your way to reach flow. Or no idea what he’s talking about. I’m going to read the Flow book during the holidays. Hope to be able to tell you more afterwards!
Why try to be good? - Travis Birch
‘ What motivates human beings to do the right thing? To do good deeds, to be truthful, to be kind, to be helpful, to try to make the world a better place? ‘

LINKBLOG for June 29, 2009

AZuidhof — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:09:40 +0000

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 course
Convention Over Configuration with Jeremy Miller - Hanselminutes #167
Google doesn’t close its HTML tags, on purpose
Google getting sloppy for a reason
Universal 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 logo
Getting 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 from bool to enum to (if you want) to full-fledged class
Another 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 blogs
An 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 sanity
Principals, Code-Behind, & View Engines - K. Scott Allen
Elegant Code Project Structure Purse Fight - Elegant Code crew
transcript of an interesting discussion
The 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

LINKBLOG for June 28, 2009

AZuidhof — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:15:19 +0000

A Craftsman sometimes has to create his own tool - Sergio Pereira
Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0 - Mike Walker
Give VAN some BUZZ - Zachariah Young
‘ The following list is just some examples of what you could do. You might choose to do all of them, or just one ‘
This is my buzz, now it’s *your* turn
Yes… Agile Isn’t Project Managment… - Mike Cottmeyer
‘ …but it sure will change how you do project management ‘
F#: Setting properties like named parameters - Mark Needham
The paradox of the middle of the market - Seth Godin
‘ The paradox is that it’s almost impossible to make a product or service for this segment, because they want the tried, the true and the boring ‘
Are You Too Glued to Your Computer, Too? - Pamela Poole
yup
Running tests during a build in TFS - Alkampfer
A case of lost session variables when using out of process session state - Tess Ferrandez
Mapping WF 3 activities to WF 4 - Matt’s Musings - Matt Milner
‘ I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about the changes to the base activity library in the context of the activities available today in WF 3 ‘
Tracking Items in Solution Explorer - Chris Eargle
‘ Have you ever debugged a large project you didn’t create? If so, you’ve probably gotten lost in the vast jungle of code that was once some poor programmer’s paradise ‘
Custom Zero Friction DI/IoC Framework - D.P. Bullington
Functional Optimistic Concurrency in C# - JD Conley
Useful VS Key Sequences/Shortcuts - Jean-Paul Boodhoo’
‘ I am going to make a note of showing both the accessor sequence and the appropriate shortcut (if it has one) ‘
Useful jQuery Tips, Tricks, and Plugins with ASP.NET MVC - Elijah Manor
Should we stop masking passwords?
‘ A few days ago, Jakob Nielsen posted an article in which he recommended displaying passwords in plain text instead of masking them ‘ read Jacob’s article and the interesting discussion that followed
Python Web Framework Series – Pylons: Part 3 Views with Mako - Ryan Svihla
Becoming An Open Enterprise: Five Lessons from Booz Allen Hamilton - Steven Walling
NH Prof: Query Duration - Ayende Rahien
The 7 Software Development Wastes - Part 1 - Jack Milunsky
‘ The more I learn about Lean, the more I realize how much we can learn from Lean teachings and how they apply to software development practices ‘
The Six Stages of Ethical Understanding - Carmine Coyote
‘ Morals have failed to curb business malfeasance. Maybe it’s time to try real ethics ‘
Be The Change You Wish To See - Bas de Baar
‘ How do you get your team to do the right thing? To adopt agile practices? To go the extra mile? ‘
Point-Free style: What is it good for? - OJ Reeves
‘ To sum up, Point-Free helps you tidy your code into more concise implementations which tend to aid you in understanding what it is you are trying to do ‘
OJ writes a post that goes completely beyond my understanding. Hopefully you can make some sense out of it
A Lifestreaming Workflow - Steve Rubel
Capture, process, share and connect: this is how Steve processes his digital stuff. GMail is the command center here
How the Agile Community Can Contribute to the Betterment of the World - Travis Birch
‘ (…) it is not enough to be a “good” person who attacks everything that one perceives as being “bad” ‘
Probems Or Symptoms? - Abhijit Nadgouda
‘ it is all the more important for a problem solver to sift through the symptoms and arrive at the underlying problem ‘

LINKBLOG for June 26, 2009

AZuidhof — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:17:47 +0000

Collaborative Knowledge Sharing and Decision Making… - Clemens Reijnen
The Rush - Unle Bob
‘ There’s nothing like the feeling of achievement when you get a complex software system working. It’s the feeling of the hunter making a hard fought kill ‘
A Beginners’ Guide to Big O Notation - Rob Bell
‘ Big O specifically describes the worst-case scenario, and can be used to describe the execution time required or the space used (e.g. in memory or on disk) by an algorithm ‘
How To? Highly Complex Query Generating Based On Security Needs - Derick Bailey
How Wise Are You Being With Your Work Time? - Jean-Paul Boodhoo
‘ I am going to challenge you to embark on an exercise that can allow you to greatly streamline your personal development efforts at work (and by development I mean “coding effort”) ‘
Excellent advice: take JP’s challenge and install Timesnapper! I’ve personaly been a user for some time and can say with full confidence it will blow you away, and give you important insight in how you waste away your (working) days
Scott Hanselman’s Computer Zen - The Weekly Source Code 43 - ASP.NET MVC and T4 and NerdDinner
Is programming a generic skill? - Eric Gunnerson
‘ if you can become idiomatic in multiple languages, your toolset broadens, and you become more useful in all your langauges ‘
Canned, Stubbed and Mocked Fake Objects - Sarah Taraporewalla
All about understanding and differentiating these different objects
Becoming a better developer, or “How to sidestep a question” - Kyle Baley
Team foundation Build – Share Builds among multiple servers - Alkampfer
Alkampfer describes how to use different machine in the network to act as TFS build machines
Mmm, Curry - Eric Lippert
JSON Hijacking - Phil Haack
Phil writes about a new JSON vulnerability that he and ScottHa recently disclosed at a conference
Detection logic for PowerShell installation - PowerShell Blog
Comparitive Pricing for Virtual Hosting Providers - Jeffrey McManus
Coding Dojo #18: Groovy Bowling Game - Mark Needham
Twitter, an Evolving Architecture - Abel Avram
Building Software vs. Building a House - Sean Feldman
And here’s to all the good software people that still think building a house is the perfect analogy to making software
Build an Insanely Great Web Service - Celine Roque
‘ You are entering an incredibly crowded marketplace. You have to get and keep people’s attention extremely fast, because hundreds of other services are just a click away ‘
How to Make Efficiency Infectious When Working With a Team - Celine Roque
35 CSS-Lifesavers For Efficient Web Design - Gerri Elder
Programmer Confidence and Arrogance - Jay Fields
‘ Imagine the early days of medicine. Three different doctors give you three different surgery options. There’s not enough experience in the industry to show which is the correct choice. Who do you trust? ‘
The Remarkable Complexity of Modern Web Browsers - Dennis Forbes
‘ Have you tried out Firefox 3.5 yet? It’ll happily install side-by-side, so there’s very little risk giving it a spin ‘
Intro into the ‘exciting’ things the new Firefox offers, which are described in a follow-up article

LINKBLOG for June 25, 2009

AZuidhof — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:08:18 +0000

How to Eliminate Compulsive Internet Fiddling - Celine Roque
Hold Better, Less Stressful Meetings with the Web - Doriano Carta
‘ We all know how painful it is to coordinate a meeting involving more than a couple of people ‘
Yup, we do. So here’s a couple web tools that might be new to you
Data Crunching in Haskell - OJ Reeves
‘ It made me think again about how it’d be nice to just be able to plug in whichever language we wanted whenever we felt it would do the job better than whatever the current tool is ‘
Err…say that again?
Introducing: Surface User Group Netherlands - Dennis Vroegop
New user group (Dutch post)
Avoid Using NHibernate With NUnit 2.4.6 - Davy Brion
‘ We just spent about 2 hours trying to find out why our NHibernate tests were about 10x slower on our build server than they were on our local machines ‘
Safe refactoring: Removing object initializer, introducing builder - Mark Needham
Ubiquitous Language in Product Development - Dave Laribee
Testing MVC Elements and Interactions with Mock Container - Rinat Abdullin
E-VAN - Alan Dean talking on REST (6th July 2009) - Colin Jack
Attendee URL: http://snipr.com/virtualaltnet (Live Meeting)
Providing Safe Alternatives - Matthew Podwysocki
Asserting that a command was executed in a CAB application - Fredrik Kalseth
Linq: Beware of the ‘Access to modified closure’ demon - Frans Bouma
‘ The above code snippet has the demon embedded into itself, likely without you noticing it. Can you spot it? ‘
NH Prof: Getting big, and bigger - Ayende Rahien
Working too many late nights makes you socially retarded - Richard Dingwall
‘ It was as if all my social skills had somehow been sapped — the mind was willing, but the tongue had nothing to talk about ‘
Expressions Cheat Sheet - Jimmy Bogard
Just Be Honest and Tell the Truth - Jeff Perrin
‘ I’ll go through some of the tenets of XP and run them through my honesty filter ‘
PM Tip #10: Interview Tips for Landing a Great Program Management Job - Brad Abrams
Better JavaScript class generation - Jay Kimble
iTextSharp – The easy way - Dave Bush
Repost: Watch out for SQL Server Parameter Sniffing - Chris Brandsma
Two frameworks are better than one - Simone Chiaretta
It Already Is A Scripting Language Eric Lippert
‘ C# already is a scripting language, and has had this feature for almost a decade ‘
How to authorize a WCF service in the anonymous internet - Gerhard Stephan
10 things you should do near the end of a project - Bill Stronge
‘ When a project is winding up, some project managers skip a few important final steps. Here are several details you shouldn’t overlook when you reach the end of your next project ‘
Session Attacks and ASP.NET - Part 2 - Jason Montgomery
Black belt website hardening tips
Closures, Javascript And The Arrow Of Time - Paul Houle
‘ Closures are a powerful and concise way to express your intentions to a computer: however, closures break some of the intuitive assumptions that people use to understand software ‘
If that doesn’t scare you, read on
Re-writting a software application from scratch - Voxel Perfect
‘ Sometimes we have this gut feeling that we need to change things radically and head to a new completely different direction ‘
O yeah we do! Only to convince our sponsors to grant us the time is much harder.
If At First You Don’t Succeed - Retrying Mail Operations in .NET - Lee Dumond
‘ The majority of mail server interruptions are very temporary in nature, lasting only a few seconds. Instead of failing right away, why not give your SMTP client another shot? ‘

LINKBLOG for June 24, 2009

AZuidhof — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:29:21 +0000

10 UI Design Patterns You Should Be Paying Attention To - Janko Jovanovic
Great and visually appealing article
Delayed execution vs ToList() in LINQ Database Queries - Jason Young
Accidental Prescience and the Secrets of Project Natal - Scott Hanselman
These are the little bugs that lead to madness - Scott Hanselman
How I Set Up My Mac - Scott C Reynolds -
A what
RadioTFS Podcast on Dogfooding TFS - Grant Holliday
Hungarian notation, what do I think? - Richard Dingwall
Be more efficient. Today: Windows Explorer - Andre Loker
‘ ust a reminder for myself or for anyone who’s interested, here are some useful tips and tricks to use in and with Windows Explorer that not probably everybody knows about ‘
Application-wide action filters in ASP.NET MVC - Maarten Balliauw
The Art of Unit Testing – The Book - Sean Feldman
Short review in pros and cons
Desktop Widget Reminds You to Shutdown the Computer - Amit Agarwal
Funny green widget with a social aspect since the stats on powering down your computer are shared with the community
Learn How to Exploit Multiple Cores for Better Performance and Scalability - Todd Hoff
Why Is Your Computer System Down? - Andrew Wulf
The Complete List of Top Twitter Services - Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten
Big, big list. Fun thing is that is is shown in an inline Google Document that is continually updated
Tips for Making Websites Run Faster - Alex Chitu
Fixing Airport Security - Bruce Schneier
‘ Maybe Secure Flight is a good use of our money; maybe it isn’t. But let’s have debates like that in the open, as part of the budget process, where it belongs ‘
How To Finally Feel Motivated At Work - Ali Hale
Some tips to make (work)life a little more attractive
CRUD is bad for REST - Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz
‘ the main reason CRUD is wrong for REST is an architectural one ‘
Read Arnon’s elaborate explanation
Where Everyone’s a Pig! - David J. Anderson
Don’t worry, no extremism here. It’s just the well known Agile pig, you know
Resource Management in Agile Projects - Vikas Hazrati
‘ One of the change, that does not gel well with Agile projects, is the frequent change of people working on the project ‘
Using Fiddler with IIS - Mark Needham
Fiddler for debugging IIS websites: How to make it work at the system level
Structure of my ASP.NET Web Applications - Dave Bush
As Dave notes, this is only *one* way of making a structure work. Compare it with your own and see if there’s anything to pick up from
Python Web Framework Series – Pylons: Part 1 Getting Started - Ryan Svihla