LINKBLOG for September 10, 2007

• 10 Future Web Trends - Read/Write Web
  


• Customizing MSF Framework - Razi's Space
  


• Agile Doesn't Have the Answers and TDD is About Not Knowing - Scott Bellware
  


• The demise of ADVISE; DHS data mine boarded up - Ars Technica
  When will 'they' finally see that datamining-to-the-extreme is not the answer to some of today's problems?
  


• Industry Benchmarks About Hours Worked Per Week - Steve McConnell
  


• IHttpContext And Other Interfaces For Your Duck Typing Benefit - Phil Haack
  


• [MISC] Happiness is a skill you need to practise - Digital Digressions
  

Next two via Mike G.


• How to Write a Custom MSBuild Task - Keyvan Nayyeri
  


• Before you hire a tester (.net edition) - Adam Goucher
  Get your environment in order before you bring in the (testing) work force
  


• An open letter to Guido van Rossum: Mr Rossum, tear down that GIL! - Juergen Brendel
  I'm not into Python at all, but it is always nice to see other programming languages also struggle with implementation details: it seems Python is having this bug/feature that gives multi-threaded applications a hard time
  


• Change Without Risk? « Jeff’s Post
  ' Everything has risk. Upgrading has risk. Not upgrading can have even more risk. '
  


• How-to Split a Problem into Tasks - Thinking Parallel
  ... to make better use of your multi-core machine
  


• *** If They Come, How Will They Build It? - Hacknot
  If you always rolled into an existing project without any problems getting up and running, shiver at how the rest of us cope
  


• Interview with a link spammer - The Register
  Any thoughts on why this guy wants to remain anonymous?