LINKBLOG for November 12, 2007

2 cent thought of the day:

The level of professionalism in our field can be measured by the amount of developers complaining about the lack of quality of other developer's code: either way we all produce crap - except you of course - or we should just stop whining and deal with it.

This doesn't mean me taking sides here: maybe really both statements are true. Which at least means we have a lot to master on a technical level, but also on the people / social side of things. Of course you can criticize everything in public, that's really a good thing, but DON'T start naming names. If still, you really have to criticize someone personally, do it in private and not for the world to see.

• The best public speaking tip ever - Scott Berkun
  ' Videotape yourself speaking and watch it '


• Standing on the Shoulders of Giants - Billy McCafferty
  Good plea for our responsibility to put the science in our profession. Includes reading list starting from the basic to 'Mastery' level, the last category containing works from Donald Knuth, who's probably mr. Computer Science in person


• Simplifying the WeakEvent Pattern - Omer van Kloeten
  


• J.D. Meier's Blog : Patterns vs. Tooling
  ' While patterns can help build a shared vocabulary, it can be tough in the beginning, like learning yet another vocabulary '
  via Jason Haley


• K. Scott Allen : MVC, REST, and the Alternative ASP.NET Framework
  ' In other words - RESTful URLs are possible because the framework uses a true MVC model, and not vice-versa '


• Understanding the SharePoint, ASP.NET Relationship
  ' SharePoint is a fairly well behaved ASP.NET 2.0 application itself. That being said, there are some differences when it comes to developing with SharePoint that the ASP.NET developer should be aware of ' via Matt Hinze


• Visual Studio 2008 Release Date - Don Box
  Don has caused quit a stir: you *don't* have to get up early next Thursday...


• The 7 Software “-ilities” You Need To Know - Max Pool
  If you leave it to the client they'll always ask a military-grade, nuclear war surviving, port-to-linux-in-1-day with no documentation, because the application explains itself after startup


• Did you know... How to do a replace all in files? - Sara Ford
  


• Huge Code Drop Coming!!!!!!! - Jean-Paul Boodhoo
  Really looking forward to see if Jean-Pauls code samples are just as passionate as his posts...


• See you at TheRuntime.com - Eric Wise
  Another dropout from the codebetter.com community, Eric Wise, starts a new one...


• Struct or Class? - Eric Wise
  post on the new runtime.com site (see the other link). We'll wait and see how much interesting stuff these guys come up with


• Building a File Path with Path.Combine - BlackWasp
  ' void the problems of checking for path separator characters and adding or removing them as required '


• Create elegant code with Action delegate and List.ForEach method - .NET Tip of The Day
  


• Dynamic Language Translation Widget from the Windows Live Team - Scott Hanselman
  Follow the preview link Scott provides, looks quite impressive actually...