LINKBLOG for September 19, 2007

• Buy Our Book And Become An ASP.NET Bad Ass
  Another new-book-alert: if it's written by Phil (yup that one), Jeff (yup that one), Jon (yup that one), (K) Scott (yup that one), and someone called Wyatt, it is at least worth checking out


• Login Time : Keep track of how much time you spend on the computer - David McClurg, Code Project
  funny idea


• 5 Small Lessons Learned From Carrying a Notebook Everywhere - Jarkko Laine
  category: inspiration


• Software Developers Guide to Managing Your Boss - Real World Software Development
  'cause that's what we all want, don't we?


• Try..Catch...Now What - PanteraVB
  Explicit but to the point


• StringBuilder is not always faster - Chinh Do
  


• Back To Basics: What is a Clustered and a Non-Clustered index (plus an appealing visual prop)
  Basic but useful knowledge to recap if you don't live inside databases every day


• Connecting to SVN repository using DotSVN - George Chiramattel
  


• Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - The Mystery of the Failed Live Meeting Launch
  Way to go Scott, reading this article reminds me of Mark Russinovich's articles, no doubt


• notes and rants : Critical, harsh, and other things people call me
  ' It is my job to be critical. If you do not want me to be critical, I do not need to work for you '


• August OneNote Blog Round-up - Daniel Escapa
  Into OneNote but haven't kept up. Here you find pointers to everything said about it the last month
  Mmm, now realising that you could just as well query Technorati on 'OneNote' but.. oh well.


• *** LINQPad... - Veni, Vidi, Velcro...
  hmm, didn't know this one. A free tool acting as a replacement for SQL Management Studio, giving you instant acces to LINQ queries.. screenshots look interesting


• Threat Modeling Again, Threat Modeling in Practice - Larry Osterman
  


• Motley says: "Just use a batch file to run unit tests" - James Waletzky
  


• ITA Software - Puzzle Archive
  this company has some cool puzzles on their careers page. Via reddit where there's a megaton of comments already


• Why Is Microsoft Removing My MVP Status?
  First thought was 'another incident'. But it's 'just' that Phil is the next one joining the ranks... congrats!


• Strategy Letter VI - Joel on Software
  Joel posts a new article after a long absence; at least, as far as articles on his blog are concerned


• GetSysInternals - David Vidmar
  Cool utility to simplify the process of getting the latest versions of your Sysinternals tools (you know, there's too much of these tools, and they update apart from each other every other day)