LINKBLOG for November 14, 2007

• SOA in the Diversification Model - Nick Malik
  


• Writing Testable Code Is About Managing Complexity - Phil Haack
  


• Correctness provability should be the goal, not testability - Frans Bouma's blog
  response to Phil's thoughts above
  ' Testing your code can be a way to prove that code obeys a given set of standards, does things as expected. It's a tool to be used to reach the goal called correct software, it's not a goal on its own '


• Little observations - Jeremy D. Miller
  


• Append new line in StringBuilder: AppendLine, AppendFormatLine, JavaScriptBuilder - Armen Ayvazyan
  


• Did it with .NET - Improve Your C#! Borrow from F#...
  if you only know for loops and are confused by the code below this post might be an eye-opener
  let a = Array.init 20 (fun x -> x + 1)


• Reasons to Blog and Tips to do it Well - Brennan’s Blog
  good tips here. I'm not really an article writer, but reading these tips makes me think twice :)


• Developer Acronyms for 2007 - Steven Smith
  some very handy pointers to various acronyms, you might especially be unfamiliar with the pattern-related ones IoC and DI.via Christopher Steen


• Revolutionary (versus Evolutionary) Code Generation - Leon Bambrick
  Leon is starting all over...
  ' It's just about time to throw out all my code and rewrite it in {x}. Again '


• Overcoming Limited Database Privileges (Using A Fake Staging DB) - George P. Alexander
  Nice tip on how to get live data to your dev environment, by using Excel formulas and a bit of copy/paste


• Perfect software? More on Cantrill and Dreaming - Scott Rosenberg