The Best Articles and Blog Posts of August 2012

Here are some of the highlights of the blog posts, articles and whitepapers I’ve read this month.

• In two short blog posts, Jimmy Bogard explains seven misconceptions of CQRS and Event Sourcing, and also warns us of the impact of eventual consistency on the user experience.
• Read about the many improvements ReSharper 7 offers for JavaScript, code generation, unit testing and new refactorings.
• In their article Your Path through Agile Fluency Diana Larsen and James Shore (the author of The Art of Agile Development) define a different levels of agile using a system of stars. How many stars does your team have?
• Liz Koegh’s brilliantly illustrates the essence of BDD when compared to TDD in her blog post Showcasing the language of BDD.
• InfoWorld published a slightly ironic article on 10 practices of highly ineffective software developers. Which of those practices do you still practice?
• I recently read this old, but IMHO still very relevant article on how to properly practice UI testing without shooting yourself in the foot. It is written by Gojko Adzic an authority on specification-by-example.
• The better you get, the worse you get. Controversial isn’t it? But if you read the article When Being Good is Bad by John Sonmez it will all make sense.
• How do you provide feedback to your colleagues? Is it as effective as you want? If not, consider reading Continuous Feedback in Agile Teams.
• The August edition of MSDN Magazine included a nice in-depth explanation how the new async keyword in C# 5.0 works.
• Don’t you ever have those days that you feel unproductive? Then check out Scott Hanselman’s tips for feeling better.
• I still believe that he or she exists, but apparently super programmers are a myth.