LINKBLOG for October 4, 2007

• Practical Functional C# - Part I - Michael Giagnocavo
  


• Greg McKinley.com : Maintaining Development Momentum
  ' It's all about teamwork '


• How to Give Kind Criticism, and Avoid Being Critical - Zen Habits
  


• Don't look at the sourcecode of .NET licensed under the 'Reference license' - Frans Bouma
  ' if Microsoft would have done this for the users of the code, namely the developers, they would have made the license less restrictive '
  Frans is completely on the other extreme of all responses I've seen so far.
  Ah, apart from Ayende, who also sees lots of objections


• Storms in the Web 2.0 Petri Dish - Read/Write Web
  ' We probably should be in a digestion phase right now. But it does not feel that way. The innovation just keeps on coming '


• Office Live Workspace revealed: a free 250MB "SharePoint Lite" for everyone
  


• Dynamic Generation of Interfaces Using a Pool of Objects - Omer Tripp, The Code Project
  


• Is Marshall Kirkpatrick on crack? - Mitch Denny
  I didn't find someone in the .NET blogosphere *not* commenting on Microsofts' plan to release .NET source code


• Fear of a Broken Build - Adam Barr
  


• Short, concise and readable code - invert your logic and stop nesting already! - Taylor Gautier
  


• What I Learned From X That Makes Me a Better Programmer in Y - Jeff Perrin
  Yes, yes, yes! Just every now and then try to read some code in a language you don't know. Book reccomendation: read Beautiful Code!
  via Reginald


• *** Why Programmers suck at Picking Colors - Stefano's Linotype
  Agreed! I always leave the colors to the people who know best. If you think color picking means only picking the right RGB color, definitely read this: there is a whole world behind colors...


• Joel Spolsky on Why the Facebook Platform is the Future of the Web - Dare Obasanjo
  Facebook keeps everyone busy, some are <grin>showing signs of deterioration</grin>, speak about it without even knowing it. Me said I pass...