LINKBLOG for September 14, 2007

• 3 Wacky Money Making Ideas to Make Your Life More Exciting - Jarkko Laine
  


• The Fishbowl: On Social Networks
  ' Anyone looking to write social software has to either build their own network from scratch, or build on top of someone else’s. This is why Facebook’s API is such a smart (and successful) move '
  


• Is C# getting old ? - Adel Khalil
  No, it's just coming of age
  


• Interview with Kevin Hoctor, Founder of No Thirst Software - Paul Robinson
  


• The Top 10 Myths of Video Game Optimization - Gamasutra
  ' Myth 1: Pre-mature Optimization Is The Root Of All Evil ' Whoever disagrees with Donald Knuth, has an explanation to make...
  


• Beautiful Concurrency - Greg Wilson [PDF]
  long technical article, if you have a spare hour
  


• If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten ... - Friday Reflections
  Containing the story of Alexander the Great, standing in front of the Gordian Knot, thinking: ' I will make up my own knot-untying rules '
  


• Career Paths for Software Designers - Russell Wilson
  Could you replace the characters with 'Architect' and 'Manager' for us, developers?
  


• Throw-Away Tests Vs. Tests that Last - Roy Osherove
  ' TATs - That's what I call the tests people write when they are writing unit tests for the first time on a real project. '
  


• Welcome to the Jungle (Redux): Rise and fall of DBAs: The tiranny of the ORM
  ' And then a new trend started: move out of the database as much business logic as possible. The web developers started to code the SQL inside the application to relief the database '
  true story this
  


• SilverStripe - Open Source CMS Has Support From Google
  ' SilverStripe is one of those [CMS's] hoping to mine the large 'in-between' market of organizations (...) but not as complex as some of the traditional CMS systems '
  


• The Joy of Recursion - Dave Solomon
  ' One of the things I figured out back then was recursion sucks and no one should use it ever ' via raganwald
  


• Leadership vs. Management - Nick Malik
  


• List.ForEach Method - AzamSharp