LINKBLOG for September 5, 2007

• Strong password checker online - Greg Hughes
  


• Start to play with LogParser - A developer's strayings
  Having put Logparser to good use in the past, don't know why I stopped
  


• Writing user interfaces - Jon Skeet
  


• Fiddler to the Rescue - Rod Paddock
  Fiddler was a very nice tool when I used it some time ago. Now, at the moment not actively being busy with web development there is less use...
  


• Power-ful Code Generation - Chris Bilson
  Example using Powershell. I've been hesitant toward the use of code generation presumably so is Chris.
  Disclaimer: never gave it a try so me is prejudiced here
  


• Targeted attacks - a sniper rifle, not a scattergun - marklon
  Mark is a security troubleshooter from Microsoft who has lots of interesting details to share with us: learn and improve
  


• Tell me how you'll measure me - and I'll tell you how I'll behave ... - Friday Reflections
  Wisdom in here. Tells you that a lot of metrics to measure productivity will never work. And why did you want to measure individual productivity anyway. After all, isn't it much more important how the team as a whole is performing?
  


• Donald Knuth!
  If you get to interview the k-nuth for your new book Coders at Work, you have it made. Peter's list of interviewees looks quite impressive.
  Btw, don't forget to do read a book every now and then. I'll post a list of recommendations shortly
  


• Four C Programming Anti-Idioms - Matasano Chargen
  I always feel strangely attracted to C(++) articles. It's always nice to see just how much life has changed since, but I feel pitty for the ones still struggling with it everyday (probably shouldn't feel pitty, but still...)
  


• Silverlight 1.0 is out and it supports Linux - Scott Hanselman
  ... as Moonlight guess SunLight wasn't in the picture as a suitable name </g>
  


• Gmail - The Missing Features - iQ Blog
  First impression was someone with a gripe, but he raises interesting points like why can't GMail remember the G.services you use most often?