LINKBLOG for November 20, 2007

• *** Fighting the monster - Gojko Adzic
  ' From my experience, one of the easiest ways to get developers enthusiastic about something is to reduce the amount of dull work they have to do '


• Visual Studio 2008 First Looks - David Starr
  


• Phi-ling Up Your UI -Rob Conery
  


• Releases Silverlight TruckWars v1.3 - OpenSourced on CodePlex - Tim Stall
  


• Object conversion - Igloo Coder
  High level tinkering with Generic Interfaces


• Twelve Lessons From Writing Documentation - Jeff’s Post
  "Let's document everything" just doesn't cut it. This is a refreshing opinion on documenting differently:
  ' A couple years ago I finally tired of the standard “documentation process” and actually started to document some of what I do '


• Why Should Your Web Design Support All - Abhijit Nadgouda
  ' Meat might be in the 2% '


• Leadership is not... - Brian Bailey
  


• "Everyone" Is Not A Valid Owner - Steve Rowe
  Obvious but true


• Eight Essential Tips to Overcoming Shyness and Making a Good Impression - Leo Babauta
  A lot of developers are shy , aren't you?


• Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 Released - Scott Guthrie
  Guess Scott's is the "official" post


• Is Open Source Economically Sustainable? - Payton Byrd
  Some deep thinking going on here..:
  ' So, if a web browser is worth $X, but you get it free* up front, you will eventually pay at least $X through a reduction in future spending power because of suppressed wages and general economic depression '


• Maths error exposes 'millions of PCs' to simultaneous attack - Security
  Adi Shamir - the 'S' in RSA - says we're at risk. But beware: there is only a theoretical risk involved, nothing concrete going on as I understand from the article