LINKBLOG for December 10, 2007

• Becoming a credible developer - Tim Stall
  ' Every developer wants to be taken seriously. We want to be credible. But what makes someone credible? '


• Writing Unit Tests For Controller Actions - Phil Haack
  


• Are We Missing the Point of Patterns? - J. Ambrose Little
  Patterns, in themselves, have value, but as many have noted, they can be abused and misapplied. The reason for this is not that a pattern (...) [is] bad but that we're using them as an end in themselves
  via Jason Haley


• UserName or Username? - Dave Donaldson
  


• Quick Tip: How To Read and Write a Test - Adam Alinauskas
  


• The Greatest Challenge in Software Development - K. Scott Allen
  ' ... is choosing the right names '


• LINQ and Deferred Execution - Charlie Calvert
  Ah. If you don't understand LINQ completely, expect unexpected:
  ' (...) the execution of the query expression merely generates an expression tree, it does not send SQL to the database '


• ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions - plus MVC How-To Screencast - Scott Hanselman
  Lot's of info, screencast etc. on the new extension


• Programming is a Noble Profession, Be Proud, Be Strong - Chad Myers
  Nice piece talking about ethics and stuff, but it should be so obvous that this talking should not be neccessary at all. via Scott Reynolds


• November Rosario CTP - Planning A Testing Effort with Camano - Grant Holliday
  If you don't know what Rosario is and haven't even started with Visual Studio 2008, please do not go here...


• The day Microsoft 'embraced and extended' Java - Tim Anderson
  A small history lesson


• Programming Language Popularity
  looking at it from all different angles and sources. C is on top of most of the lists, c# way down at the bottom. But as a disclaimer they add that querying on C, C++ and C# is difficult, at the least


• Windows Home Server - Grant Holliday
  (Warning: propaganda in sight) Hilarious Microsoft promotional material on why even children just want to have a Home Server


• MVC Framework Delayed - Troy Goode
  


• Playing Jazz with Test-Driven Development
  ' One of the common misconceptions about jazz musicians from those unfamiliar with the genre is that jazz is simply about "making it up" as you go along '


• Microsoft Volta: Turning Traditional Web Development On It's Head - Dare Obasanjo