LINKBLOG for November 15, 2007

• Trying out Windows Live Writer - Yaakov Ellis
  


• Don’t Unit Test? Start Counting Your "Oh Shits!" - Max Pool
  


• Why so general? - Hans-Eric Grönlund
  'Why is developing software so expensive and so unpredictable? '


• Did you know... How to search from the command line? - Sara Ford
  


• Great quote on software development - Chris Brandsma
  ' Code as if whoever maintains your code is a violent psychopath who knows where you live '


• If the code is dead, then bury it - Derik Whittaker
  totally dead on. You have source control (haven't you?) for those cases that you need old code


• A Train of Thought: November 13th, 2007 Edition - Jeremy D. Miller
  


• Avoiding the startup time for webservice xml serialization - David Hogue
  


• Creating Team Coding Standards - Evan Hoff
  ' Just remember, don't go crazy '


• Team building - Michael Eaton
  


• A downcasting tragedy - Jimmy Bogard
  ' Avoid downcasting, as it makes potentially false assumptions about the underlying type of an object. Use the "as" operator instead, and perform null checking to determine if the downcasting succeeded or not '


• What kind of programmer you are? An analytical thinker or a VS operator - Kadir Pekel
  In contrast to comments on this article, I think it is a *very* good idea to sort an array without resorting to Array.Sort(). Insight in how basic library calls works behind the scenes is extremely important


• 5 Tips on improving Programming Logic - Sunil Bhatia
  Learn C, solve logic puzzles, help other people... via DZone


• Speed up inserting records into database with SqlBulkCopy class - .NET Tip of The Day
  


• Sending Email In C# Through Gmail
  nice tip via Steve Pietrek


• Encryption Build From Scratch - Harvey Saayman
  Obvious warning: It's OK to tinker around to see how encryption works, as long as you never try to write YOUR OWN ENCRYPTION ALGORITHM!


• Rob’s Project Manifesto - Rob tx
  ' Methodologies are projects too. They are not religions. One should never blindly follow a methodology’s prescriptions "just because that’s how it is" '


• To Use Or Not To Use Stored Procedures? - Abhijit Nadgouda
  The debate on SP's will probably never end...


• Everything You Always Wanted To Know About MS-MVC * But Were Afraid To Ask - Bil Simser