LINKBLOG for August 16, 2007

• *** The Weekly Source Code 1 - Scott Hanselman
  Scott is starting a new series - he's going to read other's source code to become a better developer
  


• C# - Static Members
  [beginner] 'cause when they wake you up in the middle of the night you must be able to explain static and instance members
  


• Beautiful code... - Eric Gunnerson
  ...and beautiful answers
  


• Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server - Your Daily Mark.Net
  


• Where do you go to get your security news? - Larry Osterman
  


• What developers really want - Plip's Weblog
  Doing something you enjoy is worth it's weight in gold [..] Programming isn't about making money, it's about having fun
  


• A bright future: security and modern type systems
  ' The recent defacement of the United Nations web site is a prime example of why we programmers shouldn’t trust ourselves to write secure code '
  


• Wikipedia scanner
  Interesting site disclosing who is changing which articles on Wikipedia: a tip to the FBI or Diebold: if you want to change Wikipedia don't use your company's PC's!
  


• Look at all the things I'm NOT doing!
  ' okay, here's are some cool and fascinating technologies that i would learn if i had the time, but i'm NOT going to learn them, because I am but a single humble limited human being, not all things to all people '
  


• Requirements are like Ogres - Angry 365 Days a Year
  Mr. Angry always has this nice way to cut the crap: ' She’s [his 8-year old daughter] smarter than most of the managers I have to deal with but I figure if I can explain something clearly to her I only have to dumb it down a little bit more for managers '
  


• Catalogs of Data Visualization - Coding Horror
  


• Three Easy Refactorings to Improve the Readability of Your Code - Digital Blasphemy
  


• FileHelpers: the .Net way to import text files - sides of march
  


• Deploying and Supporting Enterprise Search - TechNet
  


• Reflection performance put in perspective - ASP.NET without ASP.NET