LINKBLOG for November 16, 2007

• Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - WS-* is to REST as Theory is to Practice
  ' At the end of the day, my job is to enable successful developer platforms that enrich our users’ lives not pimp a particular technology '


• One of the most dangerous requests: "Give me honest feedback." - Friday Reflections
  


• *** Looking at the List (1 of 6 or 7) - Leaning Into Windows
  via Jason Haley comes this amazingly huge 60-item list describing ' ways that development has changed since the days we thought we knew how to design applications '


• Immutability in C# Part One: Kinds of Immutability - Eric Lippert
  If you know readonly and const you already know immutability in C# has more faces. Eric diggs deeper


• How to demo software - Joel on Software
  Joel just finished his world tour and shares his expiriences


• What the heck is Architecture? - An 'OOP' Madhusudanan
  


• The Strange Story of Dual_EC_DRBG - Bruce Schneier
  Read on, it's about random number generators, which are really more interesting than the title suggests. At least there is also the appropriate level of suspence here, secret backdoor and stuff
  ' My recommendation, is not to use Dual_EC_DRBG under any circumstances '


• Developer's geek eyes on the world: Selling Software versus Driven By Market - Bug This!
  ' (...) writing software that people truly wants is the best way to market your software '


• DocProject - Manuel Abadia
  This is cool stuff. Sandcastle already generates a slick looking chm file (MSDN style) from your source comments, but is hard to configure. DocProject makes this much less painful


• Hanselminutes Podcast 89 - Larry Osterman Makes Windows Go Ding
  Scott interviews one of Microsofts' grand old men


• *** When passion becomes dogma is it elitism? - AgileJoe
  Interesting piece!
  ' As software developers we must strive to be composers of our craft. We must not fixate on one technology or practice as being absolute, but merely an instrument of contextual relevance that should be used as where appropriate '


• 1000 Lines Of Code : Scott Watermasysk
  ' if you cannot build an interesting working version of an application in less than 1000 lines of code, you are likely over complicating things '
  via Mike Gunderloy


• Improve your code readability: make more sense to conditions - .NET Tip of The Day
  Even the smallest things like these in code can make it more readable and thus more maintainable


• Want to enforce maintainable code? - Grant Holliday
  


• You Don't Know What You Don't Know Until You Take the Next Step - Bob Koss
  thinking about responsibilities of a class and beyond


• Writing About Microsoft Internals - Adam Barr
  


• Why No Company Should Have More Than Seven Employees -- Jarkko Laine