LINKBLOG for August 27, 2007

• Video: In memory of David Boschmans - Roy Osherove
  I didn't know David, but this video from Roy is impressive by all means. Makes you realise once more there's more to life than Software Development. And, Row asks an interesting question: what happens to your blog when you're gone?
  


• Bloglines Beta - Now Open to the Public
  My favorite feed reader *finally* has at least a beta of their new interface. Keywords: Start Page (with favorites) and more View panes to choose from. One of the things that's missing so far is that my 'saved' items are nowhere to be found. Well, it's a beta, so I shouldn't expect too much
  


• The Internet is a Dead Platform and Mark Cuban is a Dinosaur - Dare Obasanjo
  


• Stop Sitting On The Type Fence - Ricky Clarkson
  via Raganwald
  


• Don't Be a Validation Nazi - Haacked
  Take away: ' the only way to validate an email address is to deliver a message to it! '
  


• Massive Microsoft WGA meltdown fingers legit Vista and XP owners as pirates - Computerworld
  (Oops categogy) Vista says 'you're a pirate': Goodbye Aero
  


• How do you setup a family of .net assemblies that can see each others internals? - Scott Cate
  


• Invoking Visual Studio's Intellisense Automatically on Paste - Mark Miller
  


• Abstractions: You can have too much of a good thing - Tom Hollander
  


• Ways to use .Net Reflector #2.1: Creating your own add-ins
  ' In this entry I walk through creating a Reflector add-in that exposes its own UI using a user control and works with the Reflector code model on a simple level. '
  


• A Desk is a Dangerous Place to View the World ... - Friday Reflections
  2 people in a meeting room triaging a product defect: that is Fac(32) possible interpersonal interactions...
  


• The Satir Change Model - Steven M Smith
  Thought this was 'just' a blog entry. Only after reading this I saw the date of this article, and knew that couldn't be the case. Most texts dating from that eon are in Times Roman 10p without layout, so was a little surprised about the nice design and all
  


• When you learn new things, learn from books - Buu Nguyen
  'Reading a lot of books does not guarantee good developers, but not reading any book at all (not including university’ required readings) does guarantee bad developers'
  Totally right! Learn from both books AND googling for the things you need now
  


• Seven signs YOU may have created a Gratuitous Domain Specific Language - Tom Moertel