AndEngine games

Nice collection of Android puzzle games built on top of AndEngine: http://www.andengine.org/blog/

Android Cookbook

Free online book from O'Reilly: http://androidcookbook.com/home.seam

Think Like a GIT

A nice introduction to advanced GIT: http://think-like-a-git.net

Map/Reduce Visual Explanation

The Map/Reduce algorithm, very nicely explained by Ayende Rahien:
http://ayende.com/blog/4435/map-reduce-a-visual-explanation

Code Katas

Word Wrap Kata

Prime Factors Kata in C#

The Bowling Game Kata

PragProg Code Katas

Beacons - by Gishu

Check out the video presentation of the Beacons VS extension at http://madcoderspeak.blogspot.com/2011/09/string-calculator-kata-my-first.html

Also, give feedback to Gishu at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6642450/visual-studio-tdd-setup/6660547#6660547

AutoFixture

AutoFixture makes it easier for developers to do Test-Driven Development by automating non-relevant Test Fixture Setup, allowing the Test Developer to focus on the essentials of each test case.


http://autofixture.codeplex.com/

Mark Seemann's demo from NDC2011: http://ndc2011.macsimum.no/mp4/Day3%20Friday/Track7%201500-1600.mp4

24 game

A nice game, found here: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/24_game

Also has a solver: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/24_game/Solve

Dan Dennett: Cute, sexy, sweet, funny

Wonderful TED talk by Dan Ariely about rationality

Jon Skeet and Tony the Pony

Wonderful talk about the complexities of software:


Jon Skeet and Tony the Pony from Carsonified on Vimeo.

PeeWee - Python ORM that allows code-first development

Sample usage of the library: http://charlesleifer.com/docs/peewee/peewee/uses.html

Foundations of Programming (by Karl Seguin)

Free ebook available at:
http://www.openmymind.net/FoundationsOfProgramming.pdf

DOCX Source available on github: https://github.com/karlseguin/Foundations-of-Programming-Ebook

Data Structures and Algorithms with Object-Oriented Design Patterns in C#

Free book by Bruno R. Preiss, available online at http://www.brpreiss.com/books/opus6/

Sokoban solver in Python...

... can be found at http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Sokoban

4 nice ways to automate Test Runs in .NET

So far I've found the following convenient ways to run tests:

Using the Resharper plugin

This allows right clicking next to a Test method and selecting Run or Debug.

These two actions and a lot more can also be bound to keyboard combinations. My favourite are CTRL+' for Debug Test and CTRL+SHIFT+' for Run Test

Using the Testdriven.NET plugin

Testdriven.Net has a very nice twist: it not only allows running Test methods. It also allows running any method that is currently selected (the pointer is somewhere inside the body of the method). The only condition  for this to work is that the method must be either static or be defined inside a class that has a default (parameterless) constructor.
Note that if that method to run takes any parameters, TestDriven.Net will pass default values for them (null for reference types, default for value types).

I typically bind the CTRL+Q keystroke to running the current method with TestDriven.Net

Using the NUnit Test Runner

This one is especially useful when doing TDD: after loading an assembly in the NUnit test runner, go to the Tools -> Settings -> Assembly Reload and check all three boxes: 'Reload after each test run', 'Reload when test assembly changes' and 'Re-run last tests run'.

Now whenever you do a build, the assembly is automatically re-loaded in the runner tests are run for you.

Using the NUnit Test Command-line utility

The NUnit command-line test runnning utility can be plugged-in as a Post-Build event (set this up in the .NET Project configuration).

This way, each (successful) build will trigger a test run for the whole assembly.

Obviously, even if the code compiles, failing tests will fail the build (the NUnit test runner will return an error code).

"Castle Validator" Castlecast with Andy Pike

Castle Validator from Andy Pike on Vimeo.

"Using Windsor" Castlecast with Andy Pike

Using Castle Windsor from Andy Pike on Vimeo.

Castle Windsor tutorial for ASP.NET MVC 3

http://docs.castleproject.org/Windsor.Windsor-tutorial-ASP-NET-MVC-3-application-To-be-Seen.ashx

The God Complex

Very inspiring talk about trial-and-error.
One concept described by Tim resembles the way Genetic Algorithms work.

Serpenti

Feels like the '80s...

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekplay.cgi?title=Serpenti&pub=&year=1986&id=0004403&joy=kemp&game=/games/s/Serpenti.tap.zip&emu=3&aspect=3

Roy Osherove's Team-Leadership-in-the-Age-of-Internet talk

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Team-Leadership-in-the-Age-of-Internet

Free mercurial hosting

Free private hosting, unlimited size, max 5 users:

http://www.atlassian.com/hosted/bitbucket/

The Transformation Priority Premise

• ({}–>nil) no code at all->code that employs nil
• (nil->constant)
• (constant->constant+) a simple constant to a more complex constant
• (constant->scalar) replacing a constant with a variable or an argument
• (statement->statements) adding more unconditional statements.
• (unconditional->if) splitting the execution path
• (scalar->array)
• (array->container)
• (statement->tail-recursion)
• (if->while)
• (statement->recursion)
• (expression->function) replacing an expression with a function or algorithm
• (variable->assignment) replacing the value of a variable.
• (case) adding a case (or else) to an existing switch or if

Source: http://thecleancoder.blogspot.com/2011/02/fib-t-p-premise.html

ShowMyCodeDecompiler

Online decompiler for SWF, Java, .Net: http://www.showmycode.com/

Flash Cards: T-P Premise

TPP Movie from NDC 2011: http://ndc2011.macsimum.no/mp4/Day1%20Wednesday/Track5%201740-1840.mp4

http://cleancoder.posterous.com/the-transformation-priority-premise

http://madcoderspeak.blogspot.com/2011/02/flash-cards-kata-and-transformation.html

http://cleancoder.posterous.com/flash-tpp

Uncle Bob's Clean Coder Blog

http://cleancoder.posterous.com/

NDC 2011 Talks

http://www.ndc2011.no/agenda.aspx?cat=1071

Configuring gitosis on dd-wrt

http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/HowTo/HostingGit

Integrate Mantis with SVN

I really need to try this out:

http://blog.bonetree.net/2008/09/how-to-integrate-subversion-and-mantis/

JSFiddle - nice online JS resource

A lot of nice Javascript examples using some of the most widely known JS frameworks out there: http://jsfiddle.net/

Dependency Injection

http://martinfowler.com/articles/injection.html

Why managers are to blame for lack of efficiency

Very interesting movie:
http://subiectiv.ro/of-the-day/de-ce-managerii-sint-vinovati-ca-angajatii-nu-lucreaza/

Pangloss

Very nice collection of witty quotes and funny Shakespearian insults: http://www.pangloss.com/