Trumpi's blog

Our daily link (2008-01-12)

I'm back from holiday with over 1000 feeds to read. I also got my new gigabit router today. Heard bad things about it from Amazon, but we'll have to see...

Agile

• What do you wish your CEO knew about Agile?
• Your first ***** stinks! - I don't know whether the stars are kleene stars or just censorship.
• Why You Should Test Your Requirements - because they can be wrong.

Software

• The much exaggerated death of the WiX toolset - WiX is not dead.
• Votive in WiX v3.0 now supports Visual Studio 2008 - Title says it all
• To Release an Unbuildable TreeSurgeon? - there is a problem with the new NCover - it is now commercial and cannot be bundled with TreeSurgeon.

Career stuff

• Billy Martin's Technique for Managing his Manager - I've used this one once or twice :)
• No Matter What They Tell You, It's a People Problem - "Do you like the company of your teammates on a personal level? Do you respect your teammates professionally? If you were starting at another company, would you invite your coworkers along? Do you have spirited team discussions or knock-down, drag-out, last man standing filibuster team arguments? Are there any people on your team you'd "vote off the island" if you could?"

SQL

• What's wrong with COUNT(*)? - A look at the performance implications of COUNT(*). (Hint: There doesn't seem to be any for SQL Server 2005 SP2.)

Misc

• Managing Config Files
• Handling Multiple Environment Configurations with .NET 2.0
• Why are INI files deprecated in favour of the registry?
• Log4Net Config to Make Your Loggin' Rockin' - a very nice log4net configuration. We use it too.
• Code Review Check List - A good high level list of things to look out for in a code review, but seems more like a test list to me.
• AutoMockingContainer and ASP.NET MVC: Round 1 - Kyle Bailey talks about a problem with Jacob Llewallen's AutoMockingContainer and how he solved it.
• Visual Studio 2008 New Multi-Threaded Debugging Feature - This is so cool!
• Did you know... How to close just the selected files you want? - Another cool VS tip.