LINKBLOG for October 10, 2007

• Speed up Visual Studio 2005 - .NET Tip of The Day
  VS can never run fast enough....


• The Structured Web - A Primer - Read/Write Web
  


• SVN-IIS: Homepage - Alphons van der Heijden
  As SVN is driven by Apache I had never thought it would be used in one sentence together with IIS. Interesting (the place looks a bit under construction, so probably check back some time later)


• Layered Architecture, Dependency Injection, and Dependency Inversion - Jean-Paul Boodhoo
  One long big article explaining the topic by completely refactoring initial sample code


• From demo to production: Handling the edge cases that aren't there
  Ayende is capable of coming up with nice looking sample code, that on the other hand contains error after error. And there is even one left for us to discover


• Barcode Image Generation Library -Brad Barnhill, The Code Project
  Don't be put off by the short article, source of the library is 85K in size and handles many standard barcode formats.


• Fallback Values for Backwards Compatible Enums - Omer van Kloeten
  neat trick


• The Inside Story of a Small Software Acquisition (Part 2 of 3) - Software by Rob
  Rob has an interesting case study unfolding


• Exploits of a Mom - xkcd
  the funniest comic you ever seen!


• ASP.NET MVC or Scott Guthrie is My Hero - Ben Scheirman
  


• Unbundling Windows - Mike-O-Matic
  


• Did you know... How to increase the statement completion font size? - Sara Ford
  


• The New Life of Joe - Part Three - The Users Are Coming! - Nick Malik
  


• The culture of art vs. the culture of engineering - Nick Malik
  In software development, we still have a lot to learn from other disciplines: ' Building a culture of engineering requires that we recognize and reward the people who reuse other's ideas and work (...) '
  


• What's Wrong With This Code (#18) - K. Scott Allen
  This "What's wrong..." caught my attention because it is about a failing unit test


• The various meanings of TDD - Roy Osherove
  


• Backing in Unit Tests into an existing project - Derik Whittaker