LINKBLOG for October 11, 2007

• Making any Laptop easy to reset to YOUR default (while saving your data) - NOT factory default! - Dave Caddick
  


• Blog Action Day - 50 Quick, Painless Ways You Can Help the Environment Today - Leo Babauta
  ' (...) joining the rest of the blogging community in talking about the environment for one day (Oct. 15) '
  Normally I wouldn't link to environmental subjects, but as this is related to blogging (hint), here goes..


• Speed Up Your Site! 8 ASP.NET Performance Tips [ASP & .NET Tutorials] - Jeff Atwood and Jon Galloway
  Jeff and Jon go deep (as you would expect from them!)


• Microsoft and Zend taking PHP on Windows to the next level ! - Joe On .NET
  don't actually know how big this is (I'm not really keeping up with developments around Zend and PHP), but at least the news that Microsoft is doing business with a PHP framework vendor sounds big


• Internet2 hits 100Gbps, could scale 10x beyond that - Nate Anderson
  


• Statement of Values - Ben Rady
  


• What is Scope Creep? - Follow Steph
  We all think we know what it is, but it's nice to see a such a hand-on description how fast scopes really can creep in (?), if you're not careful


• Books and Software - Wesner Moise
  if you're in it for the money, you better sell software than books...


• What's new in Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 from busy developer's perspective - David Vidmar
  


• New Class of Vulnerabilities - Cross–Build Injection - Tied To Open Source Software - Fortify Software
  via vendor's site comes a whitepaper on this issue “Attacking the Build through Cross–Build Injection [PDF]
  Note: I have no idea if this is hyped or real, so if you have any knowledge here, please share with us in the comments...


• Avoiding Development Disasters - Worse Than Failure
  Did you know these days the WTF site is not only about ridiculing bad code anymore. Alex Papadimoulis provides deep insight into maintainability with this piece


• Ruminations » From the Mailbox: How Much Visibility is Too Much?
  ' I think lack of visibility is far more dangerous than an excess of visibility '


• !Alt.NET - Fear and Loathing
  


• Show mercy to keyboard users (yourself included) by setting the default keyboard focus - Jan Miksovsky
  it can really be as easy as document.f.q.focus(); ...