Weekly Link Roundup – 2

Links published on May 04, 2009:

Math world, simple mental calculations or what’s going on with education?

Most interesting math blog post I have read for a long time. Have a read guys and tell me how you find it.

Programmer Competency Matrix:

http://www.indiangeek.net/programmer-competency-matrix/

Panoramic Image & Viewer related resources:

http://krolik.net/PIV/
http://flashpanoramas.com/player/
http://www.mojavelinux.com/cooker/demos/panojs/
http://www.eurofresh.se/test/shockwpanos.htm
http://www.michielpost.nl/panorama/

File conversion utility for panoramic photos:

http://www.outerspace-software.com/bixorama.html

Automatic image stitching:

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html

Panoramic Image App (Commercial):

http://www.autopano.net/

Panorama Gallery:

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/panogallery/panogallery.html

Panoramic Viewer:

http://s3.envato.com/files/4810/index.html

TDD Links:

http://codebetter.com/blogs/darrell.norton/articles/50337.aspx
A Conversation with Martin Fowler
Mocks Aren’t Stubs
Learn about .NET Unit Testing with Typemock

Old Version Downloads:

http://www.oldapps.com/

10 Youtube URL Tricks You Should Know About

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-youtube-url-tricks-you-should-know-about/

100 Best JavaScript Resources

http://www.spoonfeddesign.com/100-best-javascript-resources

Performance killer: Disk I/O

http://nathanaeljones.com/11061_Performance_killer_Disk_I_O

Top 20 Best Agile Development Books, Ever

http://www.noop.nl/2008/06/top-20-best-agile-development-books-ever.html

Top 100 Best Software Engineering Books, Ever

http://www.noop.nl/2008/06/top-100-best-software-engineering-books-ever.html

Top 20 Programming Books

http://yaneshtyagi.blogspot.com/2008/04/top-20-programming-books.html

Top 10 Concepts That Every Software Engineer Should Know

http://blog.csdn.net/andylin02/archive/2008/07/26/2716304.aspx

Securing ASP.NET Applications

http://www.novologies.com/post/2009/04/08/Securing-ASPNET-Applications.aspx

The ADO.NET Entity Framework must read:

Introducing the Entity Framework [MSDN]
The ADO.NET Entity Framework Overview
ADO.NET Tech Preview: Entity Data Model
Introduction to the Entity Framework [Code Project]

Windows Communication Foundation must read:

Fundamental Windows Communication Foundation Concepts
What Is Windows Communication Foundation?
A Guide to Designing and Building RESTful Web Services with WCF 3.5

Howto Dynamically Insert Javascript And CSS:

This is a short and sweet little tutorial to show you how to dynamically insert a new Javascript (or style sheet) into your web pages, and explores how you can exploit cross-domain includes in your applications.

As JSON and DHTML start to get pushed more and more to the forefront of web-based applications, the web designer is faced with a new problem: how to dynamically insert a script element into an existing web page. It won’t take long to figure out that ajax loads and innerHTML injections won’t work.

http://www.hunlock.com/blogs/Howto_Dynamically_Insert_Javascript_And_CSS

Yahoo! Pipes and JQuery : Goodbye Same Origin Policy

http://www.badlydrawntoy.com/2008/07/08/yahoo-pipes-and-jquery-same-origin-policy/

URL Shorteners:

http://is.gd/
http://tr.im/
http://ow.ly/url/shorten-url
http://bit.ly
http://tinyurl.com

Interview Tips:

http://interviewtips.org/

LINQ to Entities:

http://www.linqdev.com/PublicPortal/publicportal/linq-to-entities.aspx

LINQ Learning Guide: LINQ to Entities

http://searchwindevelopment.techtarget.com/generic/0,295582,sid8_gci1299600,00.html

The ADO.NET Entity Framework Overview:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa697427(VS.80).aspx

Parallelism Videos Galore

http://blogs.msdn.com/pfxteam/

Writing LINQ Queries with the Entity Framework:

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1237071

ASP.NET Dynamic Data Overview

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc488546.aspx

Inheritance and Associations with Entity Framework Part 1

http://mosesofegypt.net/post/Inheritance-and-Associations-with-Entity-Framework-Part-1.aspx

Model Domain Objects with the Entity Framework

http://visualstudiomagazine.com/features/article.aspx?editorialsid=2425

Lambda the Ultimate : Programming Languages Weblog

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/

Introduction to Domain Specific Languages

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/domain-specific-languages

Good blog site on Patterns:

http://blogs.msdn.com/erwinvandervalk/default.aspx

Pattern site on Hexagonal architecture

http://alistair.cockburn.us/Hexagonal+architecture

JSINQ – LINQ to Objects for JavaScript

http://www.codeplex.com/jsinq

JSINQ: LINQ style access for JavaScript objects

http://ajaxian.com/archives/jsinq-linq-for-javascript

LINQ to SQL: SQL-CLR Type Mismatches (LINQ to SQL)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb386909.aspx

LINQ to SQL : Object Identity (LINQ to SQL)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb399376.aspx

Most interesting math blog post I have read for a long time. Have a read guys and tell me how you find it.