LINKBLOG for September 27, 2007

• Agile vs. Traditional Development Cost Models ...Maybe - AgileJoe
  


• .Net: Passing user data with Exception back to the caller method
  ' Reader... meet Exception.Data. Exception.Data... meet reader '


• Alt.Net does NOT equal Anti-Microsoft - Raymond Lewallen
  


• 15+ Free Visual Studio Add-Ins - Carl J
  Wow, found lots of new things in this extensive list from Carl!


• Forgotten Purpose - Igloocoder
  on how easy the relationship between IT and Business can get out of hands and what to do about it


• OLPC "Give 1 Get 1" initiative a sign of trouble for the project - Ryan Paul
  Ever since the beginning of the ambitious (and honorable!) OLPC project, I wondered if they were not overly optimistic: needing countries as customers, taking orders in the millions, and thought that wouldn't be a problem. Still their goal is cool...


• Overview of Firefox security oriented extensions for pen-testing - Security4all
  might not interest you at all, but did you know a browser can be a handy tool for security investigations?


• Contractor Blamed in DHS Data Breaches - washingtonpost.com
  oops, failing to deliver is something we all do every now and then (don't we), but covering that up is something else


• The problem with "I'll just wait until school to learn to program" Tim Stall
  Nothing comes to you for free, only if you *really* want something yourself, you can make things happen


• 10 More Future Web Trends - Read/Write Web
  RSS readers are going away: ' 10. Blog reading automatically input into our brain '


• Stop the spying - i like ellipses…
  politically oriented post by developer Mike Hall


• Can Your Team Pass The Elevator Test? - Jeff Atwood
  Jeff nails it again:
  ' Software developers think their job is writing code. But it's not. Their job is to solve the customer's problem '


• My goodness, were's gone my Properties window?!? - A developer's strayings
  Drag the window away from your desktop and it's "gone". Is this a usability bug, or by-design, me wonders?


• Confessions of a Terrible Programmer - 'Marc'
  ' Be a testing masochist, i.e., I ruthlessly try to break my own code '
  It's even fun to hammer on your own code, because it makes you a better (and hopefully more humble) programmer


• Why Programmers Don't Like Relational Databases - Typical Programmer
  AS Object databases or whatever alternative have still not really taken up, RDBMS's will be around for a long time. Never really had a problem with them though, but I always have worked with them


• Dynamically Inject Validation Controls From A Base ASP.NET Page - Jayson Knight
  


• Effective user interface testing - Gojko Adzic
  


• Explaining the Excel Bug - Joel Spolsky
  


• How Hard Could It Be?: Unfocused and Unabashed - Joel Spolsky
  Joel is on a spree


• Throwing Exceptions: Will You be Able to Catch What You Expect? - Jay Miller
  if you forgot the difference between throw; and throw ex;


• Google GMail E-mail Hijack Technique - GNUCITIZEN
  Hmm, GMail seems to be under heavy fire this week...


• Taskbar Shuffle - Dave Donaldson
  some people create a cure for problems the rest of the world was not aware of

Do you know of any way to block a domain from showing up in Google results, maybe with a Firefox plugin? Would really like to get rid of sites like experts-exchange hiding/obfuscating all answers, stimulating you to send money into their direction. Not nice!