LINKBLOG for August 19, 2007

• WCF and SOA: Getting There From Here
  Some background on the concepts
  


• Subtleties of C# IL codegen - Eric Lippert
  


• The Cost of Losing a Developer - David Carr
  Seems like a reasonable list, but I find the hourly rate he uses very high. Maybe the UK if different from the Netherlands (from what I know an average developer goes for about EUR 600 a day, as opposed to the author's 1000 pound)
  


• When Should You Refactor? - Steve Rowe
  


• Why Coding Standards Are Important - Scott Dorman
  


• Helping developers with "How Do I" information - Somasegar
  Short videos getting you up to speed on the new Microsoft technologies
  


• Adventures in Unit Testing Persuasion - Doug Seven
  We're trying to grasp these concepts at the momen (yeah, I know we are late to the party, but there's just so much to learn). So,for me this was an interesting read
  


• 10 Things you didn't know about Firebug - theWebWire
  


• Effort is important, but knowing where to make an effort makes all the difference... - Friday Reflections
  ' Experience is not what happens to a person; it is what a person does with what has happened to him/her. '
  


• Professional Prejudice
  ' (...) when someone you don’t work with treats you differently than your immediate supervisor does, it should send up a major red flag. They are almost certainly getting feedback that you aren’t privy to. '
  
  Honest article on how the workspace ... welll, works
  


• Geek Bonding (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Star Trek) - Blake Watson
  


• Thirteen Blog Clichés - Coding Horror


• Dependency Injection: More than a testing seam
  I want to understand better how to use DI and other concepts related to testing into dailt practive. If you want too, Ayende (and the sources he refers to) is a good place to start from
  


• Dependency Injection - Jacob Proffitt
  The Scruffy-Looking Cat Herder, referred to from Ayende's post has a very clear explanation. On the other hand, he's not all in favor of it. That's always the problem with new concepts: you have to really give it a good thought to see it also applies in your practice. Sometimes you must take the decision to skip something because it doesn't apply to you *at the current moment*
  


• Type Mocking, Dependency Injection, Static Runtimes, Dynamic Languages, Metaprogamable Application Frameworks, DSL's, and Stuff - Scott Bellware [MVP]
  and even more goodness. Enough for today