LINKBLOG for July 13, 2007

• When should you encourage code duplication? - Ayende Rahien
  


• Get Lean, Eliminate Waste - J.D. Meier
  


• Consultant Personalities - ASP.NET Style | Sahil Malik
  From the Humor dept.: read all about ' The Substitution consultant also known as The FileUpload consultant ' and more types
  


• I love RESTful Rails - fallenrogue
  


• The best way to make UAC shut up for a while - James Finnigan
  And remember kids: for a while.
  


• Code Tip: IEnumerable<> and Yield in .NET 2.0 - The Code Project
  


• Adding Trace to a .NET application and listening to it - Abhinaba
  


• You've Built a Great Technology, Now What? (My Dilemma) - the.codist{}
  


• Jay Fields Thoughts: Reading technical books
  ' Read books to create a table of contents in your mind, but don't focus too much on the implementation details '
  


• Best Companies to Work For, Part 1 - 10x Software Development
  


• Is your code worthless? - cysquatch.net
  ' There is extraordinarily little code theft in this industry ... because most code ... has no value at all outside of a specific project with a specific group of developers '
  Contrast this with the 'lazy devs' article below accusing "us" devs of being copycats
  


• Theory P: The Philosophy of Managing Programmers
  ' There are very few true artists in computer programming, most are just house painters. ' The author calls this his own law, and overall is quite negative toward programmers, making generalisations like most of us are lazy, incompetent school boys