LINKBLOG for September 23, 2007

• *** 11 Visual Studio 2005 IDE Tips and Tricks to Make You a More Productive Developer - Chinh Do
  Required reading for Keyboard Jedi's using Visual Studio


• VeryTasty - del.icio.us Tag Renamer/Merger - Scott Reynolds
  Good to see more people make use of the handy C# del.icio.us API. I save 5 minutes of my life every day now with this little thingie I wrote on top of it, that is preparing these linkblog entries for me now. Automation rules
  


• Netlicious: A .NET del.icio.us client - Procanta
  more del.icio.us goodness


• Career Endgame - Where Am I Going? How About You? - Scott Reynolds
  OK, this one was in bold, but still stuck out for me: ' Don't choose unhappiness over uncertainty '


• Are Agile methods detrimental to your design? - Frank Kelly
  


• robots.txt Adventure - Andrew Wooster
  robots.txt made interesting (a daunting task, but Andrew succeeded) via reddit


• The Principle of Scale: A fundamental lesson they failed to teach us at school - secretGeek
  


• A 2.0 Factory Pattern Using Generics - Acoustic, The Code Project
  


• Generated Code Quality - Ayende Rahien
  


• The Performance Penalty of using ASP.Net - Ayende Rahien
  ' This may not affect the runtime production performance, but it plays hell with the developer's performance '
  A big contributor to having hordes of people say PHP/Rails/* is faster than ASP.NET, not really giving it a fair chance


• The Null Object Pattern - Chris Bilson
  


• 7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails - Derek Sivers
  Not choosing sides here, but there's some things to pick up:
  - use one language for a time and apply it's ideas to another language
  - total rewrites *can* sometimes be helpful (if only for de-sizing your code-base
  - some things really are less easy than it seems


• CD Baby
  The previous gets Derek a nice referral. By reading about his rewrite I checked the site in question, unknown to me. CD's all over the place from independent artists. Searching for your favourite artist will probably get you lots of hits of bands unknown to you


• Nullable types & lazy loading FTW - Glenn Slaven