LINKBLOG for August 23, 2007

• Confidence in your code - Christopher Bennage
  ' I'm not confident in the code, I'm fearful that I'm forgetting things; let's write tests and remove the doubt! '
  


• Microsoft Is Held To A Different Standard - InsideMicrosoft
  ' At what point do the sins of the past stop hurting Microsoft like this? '
  


• SQL Server Myths - Tony Davis
  There's dogma's everywhere and it never hurt to rethink them from time to time
  


• Euan Garden on SQL Myth Busters
  Speaking of myths, Euan has a category on his blog on them
  


• 22 Code Snippets for Creating Decent Charts - CSS Juice
  A bit Ajaxy this one, but this shows that CSS/Javascript combined can create quite impressive looking charts
  


• WWW SQL Designer - Ondřej Žára
  And speaking about cool design, this one creates your SQL schema queries on the fly (for different datbases, MSSQL included
  


• The Yield Statement in C# - Alteridem Consulting
  Admitted: there's too much namespaces, methods and what have you in the Framework. I know about yield but it's another thing to routinely use it in practice
  


• Tools For Fools - George P. Alexander
  George adds another list to the pool. There's also hardware and food present on this one
  


• The Skype Outage: How Come It Hasn't Happened Before? - Dare Obasanjo
  I read somewhere (couldn't track back where, sorry) that the outage cost EBay $11,000 per second, adding up to a total of 1 billion dollars. That seemed so improbable. If that were the case, Ebay would probably out of business by now
  


• MSBuild tasks for Team Foundation Server - Dennis van der Stelt
  


• 10 Ways to Maximize The Value Of A Product Review - Trent Hamm
  


• Towards more bottom-up programming with JavaScript - Autodidact
  


• Sometimes to interview developers can be funny - Diego Parilla