LINKBLOG for September 7, 2007

Wrote some small thingie around the C# del.icio.us API picked up from Scott yesterday, to automate the daily cut/n/paste for the linkblog. But somehow the del.icio.us service times out again and again...

• How to tell if a .NET Assembly is debug or release « Jim 2.0’s Blog
  


• It's not all about "identity theft" - Emergent Chaos
  Thought on the impact of data breaches
  


• Marco Dorantes' WebLog : The way to go fast, is to go well, going well is to be knowledgeable
  ' ... a never-ending story '
  


• How does SQL Server really store NULL's - Mladen Prajdić
  


• How to spot the dreaded non-coding architect - Frank Kelly
  ' NCA: We need to create and perform a performance test suite across all our supported operating systems, and supported database platforms. '
  


• Sandcastle! - .NET Rocks!
  Both .NET Rocks presentations found via Jason. Both must-view!
  


• Phil Haack on Subtext and Open Source - .NET Rocks!
  


• Refactoring towards a DRY, fluent interface - joeyDotNet
  IoC, passing blocks of code as method arguments using an anonymous delegate: enough to learn here if that's not your daily practice
  


• Reuse of iteration algorithms - Alex Perepletov, The Code Project
  


• Tickr: Create your own Flickr diashow. - Kristof Leroux, he Code Project
  implemented in C#/.NET [level: beginner]
  


• Lisp and Persistent Data - comp.lang.lisp | Google Groups
  ' (...) relational databases are some kind of sinister death cult who want to lure you in... (...) ' Funny old usenet post, found the indispensible reddit
  


• On Becoming an Agile Coach
  ' (...) you can become a Certified Scrum Master by taking a course, but that you aren't really a coach until and unless you have real experiences to back it up. '
  


• Supplemental Index Ratio Calculator
  Calculate the ratio of important/less important pages on your site, according to Google. I'm at 80% so that seems quite high (but I'm a linkblog, so that probably doesn't help. Scott Hanselman is much lower, at 37%. Microsoft and Google are around 80% ...
  


• How Do You Talk to a CIO? - MakingITclear
  ' So just as a medical procedure has an impact on the body's processes, an IT project will have an impact on business processes. '