LINKBLOG for September 13, 2007

• Resolve and shorten URLs in C# - Mads Kristensen
  


• Cookies and Unicode characters - Mads Kristensen
  


• stevenf.com: Bugs Are Magic Tricks
  ' Rather than assume you know what's going on, step through each line in the debugger, and be amazed when it branches in exactly the opposite direction than you expected. Just like magic '
  


• Microsoft updates Windows without users' consent - Scott Dunn
  


• Free .NET Refactoring Tools - ThoughtWorks BlogSphere
  via the Daily Grind
  


• Why Microsoft's ribbon sucks - Russell Wilson
  Not everyone is happy with the new Office 2007 interface
  


• Getting lean and mean on spam -- Chip’s Quips
  


• The Ruby Connector - FREE! - SapphireSteel
  connecting with .NET
  


• Working With LZ-Compressed Files in .NET - FrazzledDad
  


• On Being Stupid - Tim Ottinger
  ' I sometimes wish I could teach the really fast, smart kids how to dumb down the code for the rest of us morons to read '
  


• Stallman: If you want freedom don't follow Linus Torvalds - PC World
  


• Case Of The Innocent Iris, Part I - SecurityMonkey
  The chief starts a new case file! and here is part 2
  


• Sun to sell Windows Server boxes
  


• Singletons - Adam Goucher
  But did you know hingletons, mingletons and fingletons, in short *ingletons?
  


• EU considers ban on using Internet to distribute bomb-making instructions
  You could think of this as a special for of Security through obscurity: trying to remove information from the net, hoping this prevents terrorists from actually doing what they want
  


• How did we miss THAT [bug]? - test Obsessed
  


• securitycartoon.com
  Look around you the world is overflowing of good ideas: raise security awareness by putting the message in cartoon form
  


• Grumpy Old DBA : Analysing Indexes Part 1
  via Tony Rogerson
  


• Why Separate Rules from Requirements - Tyner Blain
  


• Managing Product Development: "But It's Just a Small Change"
  ' (...) if all you hear is gut feelings, say no. Murphy is one of your team members '
  


• Keyboard Productivity - Rhonda Tipton
  More keyboard goodness. SlickRun is warmly reccomended
  


• Conflict - Jim Bolla
  great idea: why couldn't your version control software let you know about upcoming merge conflicts?
  


• Richard Wiseman, The Powers of observation - A CRM Riff
  Quirkology, never heard of. But there are some amazing references here, likethe color changing card trick
  


• Global bandwidth… and how to stop it - i like ellipses…
  nice images showing global internet data flow
  


• New to debugging? How it all begun (and how could begin for you, too...) - A developer's strayings
  If you find yourself struggling for information on debugging on the Microsoft platform, Carlo was too when he joined Microsoft. Now he has a nice collection of pointers for you
  


• Lawyers are always bad PR- The Fishbowl
  Imagine the worst thing you could possibly do if your company's name out into Google yields negative results? Yep, they did
  


• How to price your web application - Vitamin Features
  


• One of My Competitors Owes Me A Favor - MicroISV on a Shoestring
  On the one hand you could say this guy tricked his competitor's customer in using his own software. On the other, actually it's a smart move, having multiple - possibly - positive effects
  


• We have lost control of the apparatus - raganwald
  ' I tried telling them that databases were not designed for multi-megabyte Word files and PowerPoint presentations, and they just goggle at me like I’m a circus freak (...) '