LINKBLOG for October 2, 2007

• Profiling .NET Applications I - Bits.Bytes.
  As I've never used a real profiler on my applications this was an eye-opening article, with lots of screen shots to give a good impression in what to expect from a profiler


• From a TDD Fanboy's viewpoint, how you know your approach to TDD or just plain unit testing is working? - Jeremy D. Miller
  


• Why I believe IN and WRITE unit tests - Derik Whittaker
  if you cannot be convinced by this piece, you will never be


• Directory Structure For Projects - Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo
  


• Build a Blog Page consuming an XML feed - Giuseppe Vettigli, The Code Project


• Opening links on websites - Dennis van der Stelt
  plea for getting rid of target="new" in our links


• Schools of Thought - Uncle Bob
  On certifications: ' What we cannot do is certify whether someone is a good developer or not, because we don’t have a definition of “good” '


• Ballmer Peak - xkcd
  couldn't resist posting this one. sorry


• Using Regular Expressions - Rhonda Tipton
  Good reminder: make more use of System.Text.RegularExpressions;


• Notes on Rewriting Software - Phillip Toland
  ' (...) if you feel that you need to rewrite a piece of software you are more likely to be successful if you do the rewrite in smaller iterations '


• The Case of the Failed File Copy - Mark Russinovich
  


• Exactly _why_ aren't Expert's Exchange thrown out of Google yet? - reddit.com
  Funny. I had the same thought on experts-exchange some days ago. Now there is a huge thread on Reddit focussing on the way that site treats its' users


• What if null if null is null null null is null? - Hugo Kornelis
  yeah, then what


• There is no One Answer - Enfranchised Mind
  


• String Formatting in C# - Steve Tibbett
  Found this some time ago, don't know where. But it contains everything you need to know on.. well, the title says it all. Even the fact that the gazillion comments span two years now is interesting - uhh, OK maybe not so.. ;-)


• Did you know... How to cycle through the clipboard ring to paste different things? - Sara Ford
  

PS: a tip for users of the wonderful C# del.icio.us API: if you get a lot of time-outs, see if you're "just" trying to fetch a complete tag with a huge number of posts, even when you only need a couple. There's more in the API than you might have thought of, e.g. go for Delicious.Post.GetRecentPosts instead of Delicious.Post.GetPosts. This prevents a lot of network traffic, and may help the call from not being throttled. It helps a lot here at least
HTH