Week in review (11-17 Mar 2007)
Author: Glenn Slaven18 Mar
Firstly, Scott & Vivian had a new (as yet unnamed) baby girl. Go say congratulations.
Development
- Apparently Adobe’s new Photoshop CS3 was developed using agile methodology with great success.
- Scott Hanselman throws down the challenge for the Ultimate Developer Rig
- Scott Guthrie has an extensive post on some new Orcas features: Automatic Properties, Object Initializers, and Collection Initializers. Automatic properties, such a simple change but will save so much redundant coding Also, extension methods rock!
- Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud looks like it may have some serious potential for small-med developers.
- .NET 2.0 makes custom configuration section handlers even easier
- Angus Locan recons Javascript development in Orcas is great
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Week in Review (4-10 Mar 2007)
Author: Glenn Slaven12 Mar
Finally got my internet connection back up!
Development
- Following on from all that Fizz-Buzz discussion last week, Phil Haack looks as recursion vs using stacks and why recursion isn’t always the best solution.
- Jeff Atwood looks at using Amazon’s S3 service for hosting images to reduce bandwidth and finds the great S3Fox Organizer for FireFox.
- FreshBooks, the best invoicing solution I’ve found, has just announced that they’ve joined with Basecamp to make online organising of tasks and projects even easier. Signup here & I get a kickback!
- The Google Webmaster Central Blog has a post up on the correct use of the site: command and how it will be changing in the near future.
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Week in Review (25 Feb - 3 Mar 2007)
Author: Glenn Slaven5 Mar
No internet at home for over a week now. Really not coping here!
Development
- Jeff Atwood laments the quality of programmers, while Phil Haack laments the quality of Jeff’s commenters.
- Long Zeng has a very interesting article on the new User Experience Guidelines for Vista
- Freshbooks and Basecamp have now integrated. You can now import projects into Freshbooks from Basecamp and generate invoices based on time entries and todo lists. Sweet!
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Week in Review (18-24 Feb 2007)
Author: Glenn Slaven22 Feb
I haven’t really had much time to post anything this week, we’re moving house this weekend, so we’ve been madly packing. That’s alo why this post is a day late, my telco hasn’t sorted out my new phone line and ADSL connection yet.
Fortunately there’s plenty of other people out there with time on their hands…
Blogging
- Aaron Brazell at Technosailor has canceled the sale of his blog & he’s posted what he learned from the experience
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Week in Review (11-17 Feb 2007)
Author: Glenn Slaven18 Feb
(This is the first in what will be a weekly wrap-up)
Development
- Mads Kristensen reckons ASP.NET is too easy -
Just consider the consequences before taking the easy way. My advice is to throw away the designer and start writing code
- The infinitely useful Sysinternals applications has been released in a single download zip file. A full list of what’s included and what they do is available here.
- On the subject of lists, SQL Server Code,Tips and Tricks, Performance Tuning has a list of Ten SQL Server Functions That You Hardly Use But Should and Mike Woodring has a huge amount .NET sample code for pretty much anything you can think of
- Joe White is running a 31 day series on ReSharper.
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