LINKBLOG for November 18, 2007

• What Exactly Are You Trying To Prove? - Phil Haack
  


• ...for sufficiently small values of "programmer" - Larry O'Brien
  Hilarious, at least if you're not Larry
  ' *Larry's brain explodes and he dies* '


• Tools of The Effective Developer: Whetstones - Hans-Eric Grönlund
  Something you easily forget:
  ' As a programmer you are the ultimate software development tool, and like any tool you need regular care to stay effective '


• Simplicity... - Jay Kimble
  


• Did you know... how to search for a symbol? - Sara Ford
  


• Supercomputing 2007: "Data Streaming" - Joe Hummel
  


• Principles and Patterns over Tools and Frameworks - joeyDotNet
  ' It's interesting to see what other developers value and/or what topics they are interested in regarding the development of software '


• [Security] Microsoft unveils Code Protection suite of tools - Roy Osherove
  


• The Churning Backlog AntiPattern - David Starr
  


• VisualSVN Server - Laurent Kempé
  


• UDDI is (Not) Dead? - Jimmy Skowronski


• 15 -hot- tools that made me a coding Paris Hilton - Mike Duncan
  Even this one only is worth it:
  ' #6 WinGrep Price = Free '


• *** Leading by multiplicity - Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo
  auwwww, Jean-Paul points to some people who are all unknown to me, but whose blogs look definitely interesting! Thanks, but how can we ever keep up with so much interesting contents...


• Steganography 17 - FTP through a Proxy - The Code Project - C# Programming
  ' The scenario is: You want to send text to a remote machine or download a certain message from it, but you suspect eavesdroppers to observe your internet connection '


• 7 of the Hardest Things I Learned About Writing Software - Scott Watermasysk
  ' You can write the absolute best code the world has ever seen and if you present it like a turd, your code, to the world is a turd '


• Ignorance vs. Negligence
  ' Developer who built the "thread per row" batch process, and actually had a bigger server bought to handle the "big application" that processed "lot of business critical data (15,000 rows)" '