Thursday, September 17, 2009

Resource Links #2

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Feeds to follow

  •  Patrick Smacchia : Patrick is C# MVP and the man behind NDepend. If he knows something very well, its .NET! Especially code analysis and code quality. 
  • 5Whys : Roy Oshirove, the writer of Art of unit testing and Iserializeable blog, has dedicated this blog to the budding and blossomed teamleads, basing it on the famous 5 whys model of toyota. He talks about keeping things in focus and getting things done, especially in an agile context. He has also been the architect of TypeMock mocking framework for .NET.
  • APCMag : APCMag is a tech magazine based in australia. It features latest hardware and software reviews as they happen.
  • Ayende Rahien : Orin, the guy who developed NHibernate and Rhino Mocks blogs about these products and more related to .NET.
  • High Scalability : Ever wondered what's under the hood of your favourite greatest applications like Facebook, Myspace, Google, Twitter? Find internals about these and many more application's setups.

Tweeple to follow

Programming Links and Resources

  •  Do you create XSL/XSLTs often? Is it a hit and try method? Read how you can debug XSLTs inside visual studio.NET. Very helpful. 
  • Learn about Agile Requirements best practices.
  • Test coverage of your code is a big issue. Is 100% test coverage mythical? Patrick Smaachia (NDepend ) thinks not. Read why here .
  • A highly motivational rendition of Hare and Tortoise story for the likes of us. Read it here.
  • Tim O'Reilly, the person who coined and defined 'web 2.0' talks about Gov 2.0 and how Governments can provide a platform for better citizenship and commerce using the technology.
  • Google wave hits the market at the end of this month. Read 5 ways it MIGHT change the world. See official wave demo here
  • Behavior driven development from scratch teaches the difference from regular unit testing and TDD in .NET. Garry Shutler starts a series of these articles from this post.
  • If there is one company that has taken .NET WPF seriously, its Thirteen23. Checkout their demo applications like Blu (a really sweet twitter client). Also check out their TED player.
  • See Ayende (creator of Rhino Mocks for .NET) screencast and teach the use of rhino mocks in this 10 part series.

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