LINKBLOG for August 15, 2007

• Rails-y TextMate Theme For Visual Studio - Rob Conery
  


• .NET Framework 2.0 hotfix installation can cause temporary application performance problems - Aaron Stebner
  


• 17 Links Today (2007-08-14)
  Linkblog. Found via Jason Haley
  


• A Couple Of New Music Recommendations: Mew, Muse, and Cold War Kids - protected virtual void jaysonBlog {
  Jayson and I seem to have the same taste in music
  


• Chaotic Perspectives - Adding Simplicity
  


• MSDN - Working with Unit Tests
  


• The Cool Cam - Worse Than Failure
  If Ayende refers to the WTF site, if *must* be insightful. Btw, WTF was one of the sites I unsubscribed from a while ago because of information overload; but it's nice to see the best posts pop up every now and then
  


• Lies, Damned Lies, and... - raganwald
  Statistics, of course. I see sample bias and bayesian filtering all over the place. Ahhhh, brings back [...] memories from a distant past. But Reg wants to say that statistics can even be used to lie about success rates in hiring programmers
  


• Four Common Myths About Backup Software - Alexey V. Spiridonov
  It's not too hard to defeat these myths, but I agree that lot's of users consider these things real problems, which they are not
  


• How much time did you spend in the debugger today? - Andrew Stopford
  ..too much. Wouldn't have problems with 8 minutes over the average working day
  


• Planning for Effective Meetings - Tyner Blain
  Bottom line: you do have responsibilities yourself, don't blame the other person in advance
  


• Show Hidden Programs in Add/Remove Programs on WinXP - Greg's Cool [Insert Clever Name] of the Day
  Cool Windows XP tip, if you like to be in control of your OS