LINKBLOG for April 30, 2007

• The code garden (an analogy that sucks less) - Code Craft

I like the comparison, but isn't it actually a bit sad that it seems our field can only be compared to others, instead of standing on it's own feet. All comparisons lack in one way or the other (be it farming, house or bridge construction, or whatever other comparison). Still I think the gardening one is the nicest one I've seen so far.


• How Not To Write a Technical Book - Coding Horror


• Get a Build Server and Keep it Clean - Jeremy D. Miller


• Basic C# coding guidelines - Sumit Amar


• MSDN vs. Google


• PerfMon - Your debugging buddy: Advanced .NET Debugging


• Coprolitic Programming - the.codist{}


• Tips for Doing Effective Code Reviews - Denny Boynton


• Getting Started with Google Code Hosting, Subversion, and TortoiseSVN without feeling like an Idiot - //engtech


• Programming with a mouse considered harmful - What do you want to program today?


• More Fun with C# Iterators: Take, Skip, TakeWhile, SkipWhile - Honest Illusion
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• Apparently Bloggers Aren't Journalists - Coding Horror


• Evaluating software architecture documentation - Jeroen’s weblog


• **** Write Readable Code By Making Its Intentions Clear - you've been Haacked


• Read any good books lately? - Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo


• ICT should be just a tool, not a means on itself - Peter's Gekko


• Great programmers do not make great software engineers - Andrew Stopford


• The best user manuals EVER - Creating Passionate Users


• .Net & C# Interview question, along with general programming questions - Bashmohandes


• The Editable Grid Antipattern - skizz.biz


• Cool Developer Downloads - Noah Coad's Code


• Three months in the Sub - Gojko Adzic


• The Two Things about Computer Programming - The Fishbowl

The 31 Days of ReSharper - Joe White

• Windows Forms' GenerateMember - Omer van Kloeten's .NET Zen


• Debugging a Windows Service using Visual Studio .NET 2005 - The Breakdown


• Is Amazon's Mechanical Turk a Failure? - Coding Horror


• The Turk - Wikipedia


• Annoying Coding Practices - Ellis Web

LINKBLOG for April 12, 2007

• My Favorite Graphs... and the future - Creating Passionate Users Kathy Sierra is back, and trying to leave the past behind (death threats and the like, look for that story if you like - she put it somewhere out of the main blog - but even better: stand by her and make a statement: we don't allow death threats in the blog world, or anywhere else!


• Botnets by Email - Mark's Blog


• One Class To Rule Them All - Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo


• : ORM:1, Hand Coding:0 - Alexey Govorin


• Is 17 the "most random" number? - Cognitive Daily


• Business Requirements -- The REAL Requirements


• Factories 201 - What are they (concretely)? - Edward Bakker


• Don't just CodeBetter, LiveBetter too! - Raymond Lewallen


• Build A Solid Core (in Development, that is...) - Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo


• Double Check Locking and Other Premature Optimizations Can Shoot You In The Foot - Haacked


• Pick a License, Any License - Coding Horror


• 5 Steps to More Organized Programming | Steve Healy Games

LINKBLOG for April 2, 2007

• Removing the "Legacy" from your Code - Jeremy D. Miller
  
• Did it with .NET - Fibonacci Numbers, Caching and Closures
  
• How to write a loading circle animation in .NET (C#) ? - The Code Project
  
• Migrating to .NET, simple to do - Paul Sheriff's Outer Circle Blog
  
• Dispassionately Disregard Sunk Costs while Making Architectural Decisions -Jeremy D. Miller
  
• Coding Horror: Going Commando - Put Down The Mouse
  
• The Top 10 Attributes of a Great Programmer – Programming Matters
  
• vorpal.cc/blog - The Many Error Messages of Visual Studio 2005
  
• Jeremy D. Miller -- The Shade Tree Developer : New Client, New Project - What do you want to know?
  
• Top ten things ten years of professional software development has taught me - Andres thoughts
  
• Coding in an Igloo : Changing the way we code Like they all say: first learn how to do it yourself by hand, then use the tools to improve on development speed
  
• Are our tools making us dumber? - Creating Passionate Users
  
• How do you deploy
  
• Who Tests The Tests?
  
• the.codist{} - If Being A Programmer Were Like Being An Air Traffic Controller