LINKBLOG for October 8, 2007

• Casting options in C# - Alan Northam
  


• Coding Horror Interview - ScribeSonic
  If you ask them nicely, they will comply. Jeff Atwood did


• Convert C# and VB.NET - Mark Smith
  Calls the famous Code Translator under water to do a real-time translate from/to C# and VB.NET


• World Of HTTP/1.1 Status Codes - Coder Journal
  


• Did you know... you can show shortcut keys in toolbar tooltips? - Sara Ford
  Yeah, I knew.. cool trick to teach yourself the shortcuts


• Help me Roberto, my web server just got hacked! - Robert Moir
  Some good pragmatic advice here on what to do in this situation


• Continuous Integration: The Cornerstone of a Great Shop - Articles - Articles, News, Etc. : Software Quality Assurance
  


• Using UserAgentSwitcher to Access Members Only Sites - Ben Scheirman
  After wondering some days ago if you could block sites as experts-exchange from Google results, I bumped into this extremely heplful tip from Ben Scheirman, making this completely unneccessary... thanks!


• Don't Make Squirrel Burgers - Ben Scheirman
  


• Is your UserControl sluggish at loading? - A developer's strayings
  


• AdamWolkov.com - Basic Regular Expressions
  nice article, new site (to me) via Rhonda Tipton


• Don't blindly fix bugs before writing new code - Coderific
  nice one ' One might even go so far as to say that the best programmers are experts at personal motivation management '


• Reader Success Stories: Getting Productive, and a Clean Desk - zen habits
  ' Tips For Success:
  
  • Write everything down on paper, and don’t forget to date it
    
  • Don’t procrastinate, start NOW and not later... '


• BCrypt.net - Strong Password Hashing for .NET and Mono - Derek Slager
  


• Gravatar 201: Advanced Gravatars in ASP.NET - Jon Galloway