LINKBLOG for October 16, 2007

• Why Vista Sucks, Part 1 - Bug This! Techie Journal
  How many parts is this one going to be?


• D.O.A Software - Ayende Rahien
  despite what some people say, I am assured that the world will always have a need for developers....


• Blog Action Day - James Avery
  one of the very few people on my feed list having done the Blog-Action-Day thing...


• Chris Woodill: Are AJAX enabled forms really worth the trouble?
  ' So the question becomes - is it really worth it? For Yahoo Mail it might be, but for an average data entry form is it really that crucial? '
  Funny, had the (almost) exact same question two years ago, when I was more in web development...


• Why I Want to be Friends With Martin Smith - Jarkko Laine
  Delirious? has made some wonderful music, but I haven't kept up with them recently...


• Coming this Spring: Writing for a global audience - Tom Hollander
  


• The Top 35 Environmental Blogs - Josh Catone
  there is more to the environment than the one of your OS, yesterday was Blog Action Day, with a massive number of people blogging on the topic of global warming. Read/Write Web has the most influential environmental bloggers listed


• The Case of the Frozen Clock Gadget - Mark Russinovich
  Ha! Found out the hard way that a process on Windows/32-bit is unable to addres more than 2 Gigs of memory, in an issue completely unrelated to Mark's problem. But the 2GB stood definetely out to me, it is not that often that an OutOfMemory exception ...


• Do Managers Prey on Developer Pride?
  ' What is a developer to do? That’s right, work until 3 AM every night and never tell any one '
  Better turn it the other way around: why is it that the business asks for estimates before having it's requirements straight, that's often the problem


• Community Convergence XXXIII - Charlie Calvert
  interesting sample of the the Microsoft C# team has come up with recently, including Anders Hejlsberg himself...


• Delegates for Dummies - Andrew D. Weiss
  The author is right that you better read a super basic article first before diving too deep. Me always wants to understand the complicated things first, not good. Like reading about the be different sorting algorithms if you don't know what an array is :)


• Patrick Cauldwell's Blog - Parameter validation
  Patrick wonders whether in this case, should he let the framework throw a NullReferenceException, or throw his own ArgumentNullException (article is from last month, but has recently gotten new attention in the -interesting!- comments


• Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine - W. Daniel Hillis
  physicist articlie full of inspiration, via David Laribee


• Remember, This Stuff Is Supposed To Be Fun - Jeff Atwood
  Passion in this piece from Jeff ' Armed with thirty years of hindsight, I would no longer let random, chance opportunities determine my career path. I will choose where I want to work '


• The Productive Developer - Karl Seguin
  Karl describes why Peopleware is such a great book. I had one sentence to say about it in my reading list from last week, but he does a much better job!


• Blog Action Day: How to Get Ready for Global Warming - Jarkko Laine
  today is Blog Action Day, it seems there are 15,945 people blogging in the Global Warming issue. My contribution consists of getting your attention for it ... :-)


• Scoble says jump - Brian Bailey
  Brian has something to say on Scoble...


• Fun with captured variables - Jon Skeet
  


• Attention - NewsGator and Bloglines Join APML Workgroup - Read/Write Web
  Hmm, 'Attention' attracts some attention lately (pun intended of course). Must. Read. Up.


• What Subversion 1.5 has in store for you? - Viratics
  A new version seems to be underway (although this piece is already 6 wks old). It comes with Merge Tracking and 'Sparse Directory checkouts'