LINKBLOG for October 15, 2007

• Proceed with Caution: Strongly Typed Resources Ahead - Aaron Lerch
  


• The Static Gateway Pattern - Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo
  


• Questions and Answers on Leaving Management for Development - Rob Walling
  Most devs think they can/should only go into the other direction. Rob went 'back'... twice, without noticing it on his pay-check. Share your experiences with him if you have some...


• ASP.NET MVC Framework - Scott Guthrie
  probably most linked article for today


• Top Ten Software Architecture Mistakes - Niclas Nilsson
  1. Scoping Woes
  2. Not Casting Your Net Widely
  3. Just Focusing on Functions
  etc... good advice


• Operator Overloads and Value Objects - Evan Hoff
  via Rhonda


• The Visual Studio Code Analysis Team Blog : What rules do Microsoft have turned on internally?
  via Mike G


• Developing For A BlackBerry Device: Pointers To Keep In Mind - George P. Alexander
  


• Chris's Weblog - The M-Word
  on Morts and 501 developers


• Consumer protection org warns: resist Vista, "back to the future" with XP - Joel Hruska
  


• Using Another Thread In A Winform To Do A Computation - Hector Pacheco, The Code Project
  Hector Pacheco.


• Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - If your method can't do what it's name promises it can, throw
  ' (...)the method name is a verb and a contract. It's promising to do its best and if it can't do it, it's very likely exceptional '


• "Evidence-based” software scheduling a la FogBugz - Scott Rosenberg
  Interesting idea to measure developer's ability to make correct estimates, but *not* to hit the dog with them:
  ' Over time it develops a sense of how reliable a particular developer is, and how to compensate for that developer’s biases '