LINKBLOG for November 13, 2007

• Ten New Product Manager Tips - Scott Sehlhorst
  


• With the blinders off - Ayende Rahien
  ' if your use of the tool has never cracked it around the edges, you haven't done enough to really tell how it is going to be '


• Book Review: Visual Studio Team Systems: Better Software Development for Agile Teams - Jim Holmes
  ' This book is a good addition to your bookshelf if you’re looking to do agile in the VSTS/TFS world '


• Book Review: Implementation Patterns - Jim Holmes
  ' Beck’s book helps me to better consider how to rephrase my code so its intent is clearer and it’s more maintainable by myself and others on my teams. Highly recommended '


• Adding automatic updates to your program - Part 1 - Douglas Day
  


• The marvel that is Event Viewer - mike hall
  


• Coding without confidence - Jimmy Bogard
  ' Releasing only once per year or two leads to GoykapDD '
  read it if you want to know more


• Groupthink Vs Market Think - Phil Haack
  


• Memory fragmentation - Stuart Parmenter
  In Firefox, so the problems seem related to memory fragmentation and not leaks. But still, I hope the Firefox issues will be solved shortly. We are the customer here, not the developers...
  via http://programming.reddit.com/goto?id=60d0i


• ECMAScript 4 – Kitchen Sink Included - K. Scott Allen
  Javascript is starting to look like a real programming language more and more :-)


• Another Reason Why VS 2008 is a great choice for .NET 2.0 development - Jay Kimble
  So: this way we can use LINQ instructions even in .NET 2.0. Drawback is that this makes development much more complicated: code from a .NET 2.0 in your source tree with LINQ queries...?


• CodeRage II -Jim McKeeth’s
  Here's your chance to be present in a*virtual* developer conference. My little investigation shows it costs you only $150. It is rather Delphi oriented though, check the session list


• Ex-AT&T employee: NSA snooping Internet traffic too - Eric Bangeman
  


• Partial Methods - Charlie Calvert
  If you've just familiarized yourself with partial classes, here's the obvous successor