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