RIF Notes #30
“Clutter is taking a toll on both morale and productivity. Teresa Amabile of Harvard Business School studied the daily routines of more than 230 people who work on projects that require creativity. As might have been expected, she found that their ability to think creatively fell markedly if their working days were punctuated with meetings. They did far better if left to focus on their projects without interruption for a large chunk of the day, and had to collaborate with no more than one colleague.” —Decluttering the company [The Economist]
- SlowCheetah is going into maintenance mode
- How to run Background Tasks in ASP.NET – Hanselman points out a few utilities that can be used to run background jobs on an interval within an ASP.NET app.
- Introducing Azure DocumentDB – Microsoft’s fully managed NoSQL document database service
- Azure DocumentDB – Ayende of RavenDB assesses the technology.
- The <%: mystring %> syntax in ASP.NET 4 is equivalent to <%= Server.HtmlEncode (mystring) %>
- Dangers of Violating SOLID Principles in C#
- Unit and Integration Testing of SSIS Packages – Charlie, I’m looking at you.
- #NoEstimates - Really? – Udi Dahan (of NServiceBus) addresses the NoEstimates ‘movement’, but further describes estimations value, how to go about it and the realities of dysfunction.
- “Let me say this differently – until you are as rigorous in evaluating the predicted value of a given initiative as you are in estimating its cost, with that rigor increasing with the size of the initiative, you have no business starting to work on it.”
- Personal Productivity: Business vs. busyness vs. laziness – “Excessive busy-ness is a common form of laziness."
- Hordes Of Novices – Uncle Bob asks discusses question “Is the software problem really a raw manpower problem”
- Using Razor Pages with WebForms Master Pages
- Redmond's Remarkable Reversal – “A company that topped the list of obvious casualties in the post-PC era has thrived due to surprising changes to the way it does things. Most especially, how it works with developers”
- StackOverflow Update: 560M Pageviews a Month, 25 Servers, and It's All About Performance – This is kind of an interesting yet odd analysis of Stackoverflow’s solutions to scale and performance. It mentions static classes a bunch of times(e.g. “ Stack Overflow doesn't use many unit tests because of their active community and heavy usage of static code”)
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