LINKBLOG for October 20, 2007

• Architecture is a Second Order Effect - Uncle Bob
  ' We don’t clean code because we are afraid we’ll break it '


• Visual Studio News Channel: Give Hanselman a Go!
  for me the problem is I'm already well informed when I fire up Visual Studio. It would completely block me from doing something useful if I put a really interesting feed there! But for the unknown masses that Leon talks about, this would be a great idea!


• .NET Runtime 2.0 Error, Event id:5000 - A developer's strayings
  


• Are Features The Enemy? - Jeff Atwood
  Maybe we should be less making such a fuss about bugs in new software and care more about unwanted features that only clutter up our software experience


• Java: A Retrospective - Alex Iskold
  


• Competition - Next Mike Gunderloy TriWinner - Steve Pietrek
  


• Rob Conery » Have We ASP.NET Geeks Lost Something?
  ' I realized I forgot a lot of HTML and javascript.
  I can’t tell you how demoralizing this was '


• Best of the Shade Tree Developer Part II - Jeremy D. Miller
  


• Did you know... How to complete a word via intellisense? - Sara Ford
  


• We Are Sorry to Inform You - Computer
  via reddit comes this older text with humorous "rejection letters" (they are so exaggerated that is it hard to take them serious, but still totally hilarious) for some of the most famous essays / new ideas in computer history...