LINKBLOG for October 29, 2007

• Difference Between Knowing Programming and Knowing Syntax - Abhijit Nadgouda
  


• Dynamic Methods - Ayende Rahien
  


• The Problem with Writing Acceptance Tests in a Custom DSL - Scott Bellware
  


• TalesFromTheSmellySide<Code> - Episode #1 - joeyDotNet
  


• Connecting the Dots Between Analysis and Design - Max Pool
  ' Attempting to solve a larger puzzle with only a subset of the information is only an exercise at best '


• Tools of The Effective Developer: Make It Work - First!- Hans-Eric Grönlund
  Hans-Eric continues his 'Tools...' series, this is part 6, previous posts are linked to at the bottom


• Refactoring: Replacing Enums with the Strategy Pattern - Jeremy Jarrell
  A nice case for the situation you *want* to use the Strategy pattern


• Community Convergence XXXIV - Charlie Calvert
  And still more pointers today: this one from the C# team


• OOPSLA 2007 Podcast
  Scroll through the OOPSLA podcast list and find a lot of interesting people here (Kathy Sierra, David Parnas, Fred Brooks, etc.
  via Evan Hoff


• Vint Cerf to Step Down from ICANN - Josh Catone
  One of the grand old men of the net is taking a step back


• Your Desktop Is Not a Destination - Jeff Atwood
  Jeff says out with the background/desktop pics
  ' We should be filling our screens with information, not distracting ourselves with pretty frippery '


• Check-In/Check-Out as Often as Possible - Dave Donaldson
  ' I've sort of developed an internal clock that goes off in my head about every hour, sometimes a little less, sometimes a little more '


• 5 Reasons why SubSonic is Better than Sliced Bread - Dominick
  


• Some feedback on EBS - Joel Spolsky
  Joel saves me some linking today by providing the most interesting reactions to his EBS post