RIF Notes #10

“Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.” —ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

• The pipeline to your corporate soul –  Short little piece with particularly insightful relevance.
  • “The behavior of your software indicates what is really valuable, what is truly important to your company, and there is really no way to hide.”
• 5 ways to keep your rockstar employees happy – Not that this applies to anyone I work with.
• Appraisals and Agile Don't Play Nicely
• Mobile/Html5
  • Build a Better Mobile Browsing Experience
  • How To: Add Mobile Pages to Your ASP.NET Web Forms / MVC Application
  • Building Apps with HTML5: What You Need to Know
  • Browser and Feature Detection
• Strongly Typed Data Controls (ASP.NET vNext Series) – Scott Gu talks about a marginally interesting upcoming feature
• JavaScript Jargon – Terms and jargon used in the javascript world translated for us C# developers.
• Social Power And The Coming Corporate Revolution – Forbes article about how the power of social forces responsible for the Arab spring may soon be targeting corporations.
• Sharp-Architecture – And open-source framework implementing DDD as described by Eric Evans.
• Knockout.js – using MVVM in HTML & JavaScript applications
• Managing View State in ASP.NET 4 Using the New ViewStateMode Property- New viewstate mode, know it, learn it, love. We need start optimizing viewstate and this is one way.
• Page Speed Service - Web Performance, Delivered. – I wonder how well this works?
• Loading jQuery Consistently in a .NET Web App- Helpful tip from Rick Strahl
• The culture of fear – Alan cooper pokes fun of our societies propensity for fear and how that manifests itself in the silly hiding of passwords with asterisks.
• So Long, And No Thanks for the Externalities: The Rational Rejection of Security Advice by Users – A research paper discussing the counter-productive aspects of security and security policies. \

“Whose fist is this anyway?”