LINKBLOG for September 17, 2007

• User Interface Replacement for Explorer - Michael Carey, The Code Project
  


• Directory Analysis with Custom Events and Threading - federmonkey, The Code Project
  ' A simple directory scanner which operates on a separate worker thread and updates a status label without causing the UI to hang '


• Coding Horror: You're Probably Storing Passwords Incorrectly
  ' The minute we store a user's password, we've taken on the responsibility of securing their password, too '
  I know I haven't but I always wondered why no-one else was making a big fuss about the habit of lots of sites asking you for this or this email password to import your stuff. Just imagine how many 'real' password were present in the plaintext password database from reddit, that was stolen some time ago


• Net Neutrality: will it help spur improvements for customers, or slow infrastructure and development? - Satisfy Me
  


• Lessons Learned: Follow-up (another lesson) - Michael Eaton
  Michael has even more Lessons Learned for us


• Official Microsoft Worldwide Team blogs - Nick Mayhew
  If you're still able to keep track of them, here's the list


• the user experience of airports - Nadyne Mielke
  know this: airports are not there to give you whatever positive experience at all


• Code rage - Damien Katz
  heated arguments are always bad


• Things to do when you're a bored developer - Bjorn Tipling
  


• Changing where XmlSerializer Outputs Temporary Assemblies - Scott Hanselman
  Scott never gets enough from poking around on his machine


• Did you know... how to collapse and expand code? - Sara Ford
  


• Tree Chart Generator - Rotem Sapir, The Code Project
  


• *** The Inside Story of a Small Software Acquisition (Part 1 of 3) - Software by Rob
  Stories like this always are strange attractors...