LINKBLOG for October 3, 2007

• *** Why Software Process Adoption Fails - Bill Miller


• GhostDoc 2.1.1 Released - Roland Weigelt
  GhostDoc is a completely configurable VS add-in that automatically creates XML documentation for you. One thing: don't understand why you can't do this on the class level at once. Overlooking something obvious?


• Did you know... How to enable Emacs and Brief editor emulations? - Sara Ford
  Really. I always thought +"Visual Studio" +Emacs would yield 0 Google results...


• Strength at the Point of Attack - Jeremy D. Miller
  Jeremy pleas for getting more design skill to the place where it matters most: ' we need to put skill at designing software right at the point of attack -- the developer's keyboard '


• Previously on Fear and Loathing... - Bil Simser
  Ouch ' The short of it that I'm left with a Team Foundation Server and it's databases with no log files '


• Software Branching and Parallel Universes - Jeff Atwood
  How can this guy continue to come up with elaborate articles on all kinds of stuff every couple days?
  


• Utilities.NET 1.0 released - James Newton-King
  as with all libraries: see for yourself if they fit *you* in *your* project/situation. But if you don't already have a library like this yourself, it can not hurt to give it a try


• Effective user interface testing - Gojko Adzic
  


• Tiny Tip: Make sure your feed is discovered by IE7 RSS Button - Adel Khalil
  
  


• 10 Lessons to Teach Your Kids About Money - zen habits
  ahh, I found myself thinking about this subject even last week, so this is welcome advice!


• Threat Modeling: Case study and an approach used at Microsoft - Greg Hughes
  


• Tools of The Effective Developer: Fail Fast! - Hans-Eric Grönlund
  ' Failing takes courage, failing increases your knowledge, failing calls upon action. That’s why I like the habit of Failing Fast '


• Inheritance is evil, and must be destroyed: part 1 - BernieCode
  Unfortunately there is no possibility to make comments to this post. That could have led to an interesting discussion UPDATE: here are the reddit comments


• Software Is Hard - Kyle Wilson
  


• Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - Getting Organized While Drinking from the (Outlook) Fire Hose
  Scott shares his GTD-style Outlook use with us. And the second Hanselman on Microsoft releasing .NET Framework Libraries Source!


• Nice Products for Developers - Steven Smith
  


• Bloglines Makes Announcements, Including OpenID Support - Marshall Kirkpatrick
  OK, now I understand. OpenID works two ways: 1) log in to another site with your Bloglines OpenID 2) the other way around, automatically log into Bloglines with an other account supporting OpenID, for example Wordpress. Bloglines did the first, but it only gets interesting when they, and others, start doing the second


• Some final thoughts on Threat Modeling... - Larry Osterman
  Larry had a substantial series, here's the overview of the 13-part series


• UK can now demand data decryption on penalty of jail time - Ken Fisher
  if true, this is really over the top. It would effectively mean encryption is illegal, which most people would consider a faux-pas (note to US readers: that's French)


• .NET Tip of The Day: Validate integer value before casting it to an Enum type
  


• Review: Open-source vs. proprietary software bugs: Which get squashed fastest? - Payton Byrd
  on the (not so) subtle difference between defects and bugs and the possible dangers that are awaiting in the open source pool (e.g. making a quick fix without the checks and balances that a professional project organisation can provide