LINKBLOG for October 25, 2007

• Light ORM Library for .NET - Sergey Busel
  nice article showing how an OR mapper works behind the scenes


• What Self-Taught Programmers Are (Often) Missing - Steve Rowe
  ' if you are a self-taught programmer, get exposure to the ideas of others '
  Probably indeed more important if you haven't received formal education (me too!). On the other hand I find most self-taught people I know are on average more motivated and open to new methods and techniques


• Helping Groups Succeed - Steve Rowe
  ' or What to do when you aren't in control but neither is the leader '


• MS Tester Center - Adam Goucher
  Adam has some comments on the site itself


• Tester Central - The Braidy Tester
  Microsoft is getting up to speed when it comes to testing


• The importance of password complexity - i like ellipses…
  


• Interviewing Doctors vs. Interviewing Programmers - Adam Barr
  


• An Engineering Mantra: What Metadata? - Adding Simplicity
  


• October 25th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Visual Studio, Silverlight and IIS 7.0 - Scott Guthrie
  


• Finds of the Week - 10/24/2007 - Chinh Do
  


• Gmail delivers a knockout punch: IMAP changes the "freemail" game - Jacqui Cheng
  


• You can't get the staff – Social engineering - Mark Long
  


• The Web Database Anti-Pattern - Evan Hoff
  


• User Stories Brain Dump - Scott Bellware