LINKBLOG for August 31, 2007

• Hacking the GAC, How to enable standard directory browsing - Derik Whittaker
  


• Why not ASP.Net? - Lullabot
  I also ask myself that question sometimes
  


• Resource Refactoring Tool - Home
  2 above here via Mhinze
  


• Stop Squinting! - Did it with .NET
  Didn't know that you could change the font of Intellisense information in VS also, but why not...
  


• 10 Must Have Online Office Apps - Josh Catone
  10 is a nice number indeed, but there's even 18 app's here if I counted correct.
  


• Reflections on five years NUnit experience - Paul Lockwood
  ' Redesigning for maintainability is not practical without a suite of automated tests - it normally requires a complete rewrite. ' If you haven't learned this lesson the hard way already, learn it here!
  


• The Architecture Journal
  From Microsoft, that is. Free magazine (both dead-tree and PDF version)
  


• (why) I am not an Architect... - Sandeep Deb
  ' (...) epitomes of technical excellence (...) giving presentations from which you can't derive an ounce of real life value ' phew, angry he is, but probably for a reason
  


• 501 Developer - braincells2pixels.net
  No, not someone producing Levi's :-). Really, read this and learn about passion in programming
  


• Did you know... There's a way to track changes in the editor? - Sara Ford
  


• The Weekly Source Code 3 - Scott Hanselman
  If Scott reccomends to look at the 140,000 LOC from Paint.NET, it *must* be good
  


• What Does it Take for a Software Framework to Become Mainstream? - FollowSteph.com
  documentation
  


• Using Nullable to create a null boolean - Tim Stall
  


• How Open Source Failed Me - Brent Strange
  new blog for me, looks OK. Found via Jason's Interesting Finds
  

LINKBLOG for August 30, 2007

• Evolution beta is a powerful personal data mining tool - Joe Barr
  Now you can do your own data mining
  


• John Graham-Cumming: Why you don't want to code for a government department
  return aq457 * aq456( aq457 - 1 );
  


• Give your Products Names, not numbers - Des Traynor
  


• Implementing A Data Model And Business Layer That Supports State Management - Benzi K. Ahamed, The Code Project
  


• Bad Chicken Code - Brad Bellomo
  ' Some programmers simply don't unlearn this, just cannot stop classifying, and probably would have been happier as taxonomists in the biology department. '
  


• Challenges to world class software design - Russell Wilson
  ' Everyone thinks they are designers '
  I am *not* one, the point is to recognize this, and don't think "well, how hard can it be? and "then proceed on your own
  


• Random acts of testing - amazing development
  


• Humor in the Workplace: "It should not have happened in the first place..." - Friday Reflections
  


• Just .NET Remoting - redredlobster, The Code Project
  ' This is almost the simplest .NET Remoting example possible. '
  


• Inside Architecture : When they are not ready...
  ' Lead from the place where your follower is standing. You cannot successfully lead from anywhere else. '
  


• software is not made of bricks - maetl
  ' I have come to believe that these kinds of problems are even more prevalent in the web development world than in general software development. '
  Not so strange if you compare how long we're already doing software development in contrast to development on the web
  


• The Monkey Experiment, (or) “Why Do We Do That?”
  via secretGeek
  


• The 95 percent syndrome in Software Development - Diego Parilla
  so recognizable
  


• More puzzles - Erling Ellingsen
  

LINKBLOG for August 29, 2007

• Lessons Learned: part 5/5 - What did I learn? - Michael Eaton
  Michael finishes off his honest project postmortem with a substantial list
  


• Who do You Want to Read? - Need a New Title
  MSDN Magazine wants to know from you
  


• Was The Windows Registry a Good Idea? - Jeff Atwood
  ' over time the registry has slowly become a trash heap of miscellaneous junk settings for every rinky-dink application on the planet '
  


• Dean Edwards: Notes on JavaScript Compression
  ' if you can’t use gzip compression for some reason, then Packer with base62 encoding turned on, is the next best thing. '
  


• Inside Architecture : Business Case for Integration, part two - Nick Malik
  And here's part 1
  


• I've heard this story before - Jeremy D. Miller
  ' It started as a prototype, but got pushed into production '
  


• User Friendly UIs: Doing the extra mile - dotgrid
  


• The Beginners Guide to Codecaves - Drew Benton, The Code Project
  to ... ehh?
  ' a redirection of program execution to another location and then returning back to the area where program execution had previously left '
  

LINKBLOG for August 28, 2007 - Late Night Edition

• What Microsoft Doesn't Want You to Know about WPF - Eric Sink
  And if you want to see Eric's app made with WPF, check out the preview on his sawdust.com site
  


• Yet another reason to practice TDD - joeyDotNet
  


• What’s Wrong With This Code (#17) - K. Scott Allen
  Why can't we produce more of these code samples, to read, study and learn, in the tradition of Scott H
  


• TDD Example: Querying a Repository - Christopher Bennage
  
  


• Poor decision making - Coding Sanity
  more on the poor newsgroup chap making a fool of himself. With lessons learnt: 'When people in a newsgroup are calling you an idiot, it's possible that you are in fact being an idiot '
  


• Software Design Patterns - Alex Barnett blog
  ' The following are a combination of definitions, design pattern "patterns", resources and examples of design pattern articles '
  


• Some basic (but effective) .NET interview questions - Buu Nguyen
  


• Programming for the masses - Scott Dorman
  


• The Myth of Software Estimation - Jeff's Post
  ' ... substitute “software project” for “young woman” ... '
  Yes, that would definitely it more attractive
  


• The Web is Alive and Well (But on a Stable and Boring Platform) - Richard MacManus
  'They' still don't agree whether the net is dead or alive
  

LINKBLOG for August 28, 2007

• Remote destop across multiple screens - Simon Sabin
  Nice tip but the amount of tag cloud and commercials that even Firefox couldn't block bug me a bit
  


• Motivating Development Teams - Chris Bilson
  ' I don't think spending a small amount of personal time keeping your skills up to date is enough to impact a normal life. '
  IMHO a key point to measure motivation: how much time someone is prepared to 'sacrifice'. Nothing comes for free...
  


• Software by Rob : The Two Fundamental, No Frills, Square One Rules of Exception Handling
  ' In other words, if you don't know why you're adding a try/catch block, don't add it. '
  This is the most concise explanation of of how-to-do-exception-handling in a long time. Far too often people just put in an empty catch just to prevent their application from crashing
  


• http://www.genghisgroup.com/
  ' (...) a set of extensions built on top of .NET and integrated with WinForms to provide application-level services in the same flavor as the Microsoft Foundation Classes. '
  Because you can never have too much extensions, or can you?
  


• Project Management on the Titanic - Mr. Angry
  ' ME: Oh shit! The iceberg just ripped a big hole in the hull. We’re sinking. '
  


• If you’re gonna be a Windows app, act like a windows app - i like ellipses…
  This site has a curious mixture between security and UI related topics, and clear tutorials. E.g. check out Backing up with TrueCrypt
  


• Vista Multimedia Playback and Network Throughput - Mark Russinovich
  


• Off Topic: Meanies! - raganwald
  Reg points to an interesting discussion in a newsgroup (for the ones with raised eyebrows: a means of communication dating even before we had blogs and IM). I stopped tracking newsgroups years ago because it wast *just too much*, but there is still a whole world out there
  


• Computer Workstation Ergonomics - Jeff Atwood
  For the ones who never give attention to the way they sit at their desk: check out Jeff's advice
  


• Serialize and deserialize objects as Xml using generic types in C# 2.0 - Paul Whitaker
  


• Methods, Part 1 - Wesner Moise
  


• How Did I Miss This? - Need a New Title
  well, you can't know everything...
  


• CodeKeep Blog: Major Overhaul Complete
  The place to share your code snippets has a new look and feel