LINKBLOG for September 18, 2007

• Why you should not use SetUp and TearDown in NUnit - James Newkirk
  


• Living in an unsafe world - marklon
  Good advice ' ...if something might be a risk, it is best to assume that it is a risk '


• Links of the week #3 (week 37/07) - David Vidmar
  this link ' Use Outlook Rules to Prevent "Oh No!" After Sending Emails ' refers to something helpful for all of us. See for yourselves
  via Jason Haley


• Reverse Connection Shell - Paul Chin PC, Code Project
  


• Wikipedia > Search? - Adam Barr
  Time to replace our browser homepages?


• Inverting the Reliability Stack - Andres Kütt
  


• Don Knuth on progress in computer science - Andreas Zwinkau
  It's not every day that you get a letter from Donald Knuth, but Andreas got one (well, he sent one first so it was not totally unexpected)
  Seeing he wrote the letter in TeX brings back warm feelings about the times I tried to use LaTeX for everything...


• Mocks and Stubs - The difference is in the flow of information - Roy Osherove
  


• Announcing "C# in Depth" - Jon Skeet
  Jon has a book out directed to C# 2 / 3. The first examples in Chapter 1 (PDF available) I checked show very clearly some key differences between C# 1, 2, 3... looks good this one


• European Commission and Microsoft: Court of First Instance Decision - Arvindra Sehmi
  For the non-EU people: do you know about the war that Microsoft is fighting with the European Commission, and that it's not over yet?


• Learn Web, .NET and Windows Development with Webcast Video trainings - Academic Care Blog
  webcasts on all things Microsoft development


• Google Presentations is out - Scott Hanselman
  after a lot of fuss the last weeks, they finally prove the rumors right


• Further Adventures of Don't Run as Administrator - Nicholas Allen
  we all know it but no-one does it: running as non-admin. It's just too much hassle, or is it?


• Thirteen Patterns Of Programmer Interviews — Typical Programmer
  


• Practicing the Fundamentals: The New Turing Omnibus - Jeff Atwood
  book recommendation from Jeff. Remember to read a book occasionally


• Illustrating the importance of teamwork by looking at dysfunctional projects - Jeremy D. Miller
  


• 15 awesome uses for aluminum foil - DIY Life
  something completely different: a life-hacking tip via the (dutch) lifehacking.nl site


• Distracted Pair - Jay Fields
  what's better: a distracted pair or a lonely programmer?


• Request Google´s Pagerank programmatically - hartertobak, The Code Project
  Now you can retrieve Pagerank programmatically with C#