LINKBLOG for September 24, 2007

• Bellware: Classic ASP Syntax is Bad? - Christopher Bennage
  ' I'm not going to starting working with classic ASP again, but the lesson for me is to be more thoughtful in forming my opinions about a technologies '


• *** Building a Fort: Lessons in Software Estimation - Steve McConnell
  required reading Jeff thinks so too


• Did you know... How to up to the top and bottom of the current view in the editor without scrolling? - Sara Ford
  betcha didn't know this one


• 28-Hour Day - xkcd
  not all mum-in-law's are like that


• On Derek Siver’s Return to PHP… - halostatue
  more insight here on the PHP / Rails issue


• Dependency Injection for Loose Coupling - Billy McCafferty, The Code Project
  old article, but interesting for me at this moment


• No Technology Treadmill for Rails Developers - Krishna Kotecha
  maybe the grass *is* greener at the rails...?


• Immature developer attitudes revealed in flames regarding CDBaby at Pervasive Code
  Hmm, yesterday's Derek received a lot of flak from the Rails community by switching back to PHP. Just saying "X = good, Y = bad" without giving a really thourough explanation is always a sign of weakness anyway


• Why should we care about symbols? - A developer's strayings
  


• Why Your Project Plan Will Fail - Tyner Blain
  ' realize that your project is a moving target, so your plan better move with it '


• Feeling tinfoilish? $5 billion suit against Google over privacy, terrorism - Jacqui Cheng
  


• 10 Easy Arithmetic Tricks - The List Universe
  some cool tricks I wasn't aware of. There won't make you a math champion, but are still nice to know


• String Concatenation vs Memory Allocation - David Cumps