LINKBLOG for October 28, 2007

• Doing it yourself - Mark Long
  Mark has a Russinovich-style case file


• SOA in the Unification Model - Nick Malik
  


• Incubating Frameworks - a catch-22 of software development
  Good advice: Think twice (reallly!) before building a framework that you are gonna release in the wild (using internal framework/libs in your own company is another matter, of course)


• Dumbster - Fake SMTP Server
  Nice idea, mocking an email server for your unittests,
  via Christopher Steen


• Automatically process incoming files - Eric de Maar
  


• ÜberUtils - Part 3 : Strings - Brad Vincent
  also read part 1 and part 2


• New York Times opens up code - Tina Gasperson
  Linux.com article describing the idea behind NY Times desicion to open-sourcing some of it's homegrown web tools
  


• ALT.NET: RE: How can Microsoft Patterns and Practices Help? - Evan Hoff
  Microsoft's P&P Team is wondering what we think about them. Evan has a couple comments


• How to suck at Presenting - Paul Lockwood
  


• Links from the Sharpside - Inaugural Weekend Edition [10.27.07] - Scott Reynolds
  Next linkblogger in town. Welcome! I was in cancer research some time ago, so it seems Scott and me have that in common