LINKBLOG for May 31, 2007

• .NET Cheat Sheets - help.net
  


• RubyMicrosoft - MF Bliki
  The Alphs Geeks are moving away: Martin Fowler says Microsoft faces another crossing point in it's history, and is already a bit late ...
  


• Microsoft Surface
  Via Brian Peek
  


• Build something. BIGGER Joel Spolsky of Fog Creek Software - Grid7
  


• Productivity during a normal workday and Telecommuting as a Solution - Ellis Web
  


• Google Gears - Maybe all Rich Internet Applications needed was Local Storage and an Offline Mode - Scott Hanselman
  

LINKBLOG for May 30, 2007

• Skill Set Development - Scruffy-Looking Cat Herder
  


• Understanding the Basics - Coding in an Igloo
  


• VM Performance Checklist - Before you Complain that your Virtual Machine is Slow - Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen
  

LINKBLOG for May 29, 2007

• Many fail to grasp what is right in the palm of their hands - Friday Reflections
  


• Winning the In-House QA Argument - Scruffy-Looking Cat Herder
  


• 7 Thoughts on the Business of API Throttling - Alex Barnett
  


• If Visual Studio takes ages to load... - A developer's strayings
  

LINKBLOG for May 28, 2007

• C# Station
  Everything you always wanted to know about C-Sharp but were afraid to ask...
  


• Working with Delegates in C# - ASP Alliance
  And a related article onEvent Handling in C#
  


• new: code converter Google Gadget - Telerik Watch
  


• Large Application Architecture vs. Integration Architecture - Panic From Fuzzy
  


• slammer.SCR - Worse Than Failure
  Sometimes I just *have* to link to the blog-formerly-known-as-the-other-meaning-of-WTF ...
  


• Choosing a Text Editor - Nick Parker
  Even if only for this quote: Vim uses the / key to begin a search within an open document, Firefox supports this as well. I'm always on the lookout for new keyboard shortcuts to learn (keyboard better than mouse)
  


• Making search better: smarter algorithms, or richer metadata? -
  


• [PM] What's Your Project Vision? - Johanna Rothman
  Because every project needs a vision
  

LINKBLOG for May 27, 2007

• Cyclomatic Complexity Measurements: Simple code == Better application - Derik Whittaker
  


• Need to read comma separated text files? - The Problem Solver
  


• The Art Of Wrecking Your Very Own Production Server - George P. Alexander Jr.
  Truly good advice that we seem to forget far too often: always be careful what you're doing, and especially: where (DEV, TEST, STAGE, PROD anyone?)
  


• In defence of the RDBMS - In Relation To...
  via Frans Bouma
  


• Technical Debt, How we accumulate it, and how we can reduce it - Derik Whittaker
  


• This I believe... the developer edition Patrick Cauldwell
  


• 10x Software Development: Steve McConnel is blogging!
  via Haacked
  

LINKBLOG for May 26, 2007

• Intellectual Hedonism - Carl Franklin
  
  Want to keep up with the latest in .NET related audio and video webcasts? Be sure to keep track of Carl Franklin's feed at Intellectual Hedonism. There's really an abundance of information and the biggest names in the field coming by on a regular basis. I see lot's of interesting topics come by, but my time is quite limited. Can never watch and listen to everything that's worthwhile. Some of last weeks highlights: Scott Hanselman on Debugging in .NET 2005, Jean-Paul Boodhoo on Demystifying Design Patterns (multi-part), Scott talking to Martin Fowler and David Heinemeier Hansson, Eric Sink and Martin Woodward on CI and Source Control. Just head over to Franklin's site to enjoy the content
  
  


• Removing diacritics (accents) from strings
  
  Very handy tip if you need it. And actually know it will be on my list within some weeks, so it's handy indeed! Via Harmjan Menninga, a big thanks for this time saver.
  


• The Not So Big Software Design - raganwald
  


• Ethics for Programmers: Primum non Nocere - Handwriting on the Sky
  


• The Indexer - Worse Than Failure
  


• Programming is a form of art - Erik Naggum's Ideas and Principles
  

LINKBLOG for May 24, 2007

• meetuplex - Very funny comparison by a company called Meetup, comparing themselves to Google
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  Questions every Candidate should ask a potential new employer - Derik Whittaker
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  Shelf Life of a Software Application - Derik Whittaker
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  WTF Stories #5 : The Weasely Recruiter - the.codist{}
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  Cone of Uncertainty Controversy 10x Software Development - Steve McConnell
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  Scalability vs. Performance: it isn't a battle - Esoteric Curio
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  reCAPTCHA: A new way to fight spam
Seems like a nice idea: solve a CAPTCHA and help digitalizing books at the same time...
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  Google turns the page… in a bad way - OpenDNS Blog
Some less favorable news on Google...
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  DNRTv Series - Demystifying Design Patterns (Source code and information) - Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo
Just finished watching a piece of part 1. Oh, how much there is to learn, and how much information we can find for free; if we just had the time....
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  The endless fall to uselessness of MS Connect - Frans Bouma's blog
Looks like not everyone is content on how Microsoft treats it's most active users... the ones who file bug reports
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  The C#.NET Alpha-Geek® Quiz
Hmm, not very simple at least. There's some questions where you should read the code carefully before deciding on an answer

LINKBLOG for May 23, 2007

• Whose bright idea was scheduling? - Mr. Angry
  


• ArgumentHelper and Consistent Exception Messages - Dave Donaldson Note-to-self: should think more about abstraction before building...
  


• An Engineering Mantra: You Scaled Your What? - Adding Simplicity
  

LINKBLOG for May 22, 2007

• Programming Knowledge versus Programming Ability - Imran On Tech


• Scratch: Programming as Easy as Child's Play - Digital Digressions


• Thoughts, Rants and Arguments: My DevTeach 2007 Rollup - Jeremy D. Miller


• Don’t Be in Awe of “Enterprise” Solutions - Bob On Development


• In the IT world, it's 1984 - Mr. Angry


• Why Innovation Cannot Remain in the Realm of the Few - Digital Digressions


• The Technological 7-Year Itch - Haacked


• Getting the filename from a path string - System.IO.Path to the rescue


• Top 12 things most developers believe in... - David Intersimone "David I"


• Coding No - No's - Derik Whittaker