LINKBLOG for September 2, 2007

• Brain Broadcast, Internet Slang - Mark Dykeman
  ' So, if you aren’t laughing while you type… THEN WHY THE HECK ARE YOU WRITING “LOL”? '
  


• Wonko the Sane and Gubble-Gubble. A software opportunity? - Phil Factor
  Phil proposes a new index to measure the gubbleness of a text
  


• Chipping the web - recursion -- Chip’s Quips
  Lot's of goodness here, so me links indirectly
  


• A 'Hello World' Windows driver from scratch - Sriram Krishnan
  


• Deprecated HTML elements - CodeLair
  Let's all get actively started to remove them from our sites then
  


• Dealing with complexity - Andreas Zwinkau
  Nice idea: Andreas asked a lot of people on their opinion on what are the biggest problems in Computer Science, and publishes their responses
  


• Microsoft Vista desktops don't play well with Linux servers. - Neoseeker
  


• Writing approachable code: Introducing the hyperaddin for Visual Studio! - Vance Morrison
  


• Run a SWOT Analysis on Your Blog - Darren Rowse
  The old 'strongness, weakness, opportunities & threats', but now for your blog
  


• SOA for Dummies - raganwald
  New name, old idea
  


• A spelling corrector based on Bayes Theorem (PHP, C#) - Jia.C.
  Some mathematical background and insight into spell checking
  


• Taking the MCTS Test 70-536 -- That Sucked.... - Derik Whittaker
  Tests are OK with me, but I do wonder what a test is worth if the best way of preparation is (and this is of course one of the biggest complaints on the Microsoft courses:
  
  ' 1) Reading the book cover to cover.
  2) Taking the practice tests over and over till I about memorized the answers. '