LINKBLOG for October 22, 2007

• Text Encodings, why must you cause me headaches? - Clint Rutkas
  via Jason
  


• Did you know... Ctrl+F does a quick find in the current document? - Sara Ford
  


• 25 Signs That You’ve Got a Bad Client - Max Pool
  ' 23) The client still uses AOL ' :)
  


• VSTS 2005 / 2008 Compatibility Matrix - Grant Holliday
  


• What are your Seven Essential Practices?
  1) Test Driven Development 2) Source Control 3) Continuous Integration ... etc.
  Chime in if you have other practices that should take precedence over these
  


• Programmers on Fire: Software Development Essential Practices
  'nother Essentials list. Here TDD, Source Control and CI are *also* present
  


• Dependency Breaking Techniques: Inline Static Class - GrabBag<T>
  


• I dislike object-oriented programming in general
  via Reg Braithwaite we're challenged on our base principles (title is very clear, isn't it?) again. This is a heavy read, but the introduction shows this guy has some explaining to do...
  


• Open Document Foundation can't make Open Document Format work! - Payton Byrd