LINKBLOG for November 22, 2007

• XP Practice: Continuous Integration - Artem
  


• Personality Types and Agile Development - Richard Banks
  


• Tribute to Jim Gray at HPTS - Pat Helland
  You remember the Microsoft fellow that went missing on sea past January...


• From C# to Java: Part 1 - Eric Sink
  Eric tries his hand on Java/Eclipse for once
  part 2 is already out
  ' if I'm going to use both Visual Studio and Eclipse, I desperately need one of them to behave a bit more like the other '


• Did you know... How to log your command window session? - Sara Ford
  


• Free SQL Server tools that might make your life a little easier - Mladen Prajdić
  


• An Architectural View of the ASP.NET MVC Framework - Dino Esposito
  


• Interviewing is not easy! - Scott Schimanski
  ' You are looking for maturity. You want to root out problems with this person working with you and your team. You want people that act their age, not their shoe size. '


• Things I am thankful for... - Derik Whittaker
  Although we don't celebrate Thanksgiving here in the Netherlands, it is a good idea to give a big thanks to all the wonderful people around us from time to time, and be grateful if we're just healthy or happy


• Enabling team development with VS2008/2005 mix - Jeffrey Palermo
  


• A Simple Immutable Hashtable for C# - Phreno
  


• Patterns and Practices for New Hires - J.D. Meier
  ' Manage Energy, Not Time '
  Big piece of advice on personal productivity. If he really hammered it all out in just 20 minutes, J.D. Meier must be the world record holder in speed typing
  


• Back to basics, just reading some data from a DB - Peter van Ooijen
  ' Are you already drowning in the enormous amount of TLA's, tools, utilities, methodologies and whatever else ? Let's take a step back '


• First look at Firefox 3.0b1: fast, stable, and full of new features - Ryan Paul
  More positive sounds on the new Firefox 3 beta. My impression is indeed that is it faster and uses less memory than it predecessor


• Off Topic: Please excuse my reddened eyes - Reg Braithwaite
  ' This saddens me greatly ' Me too. The reason topics in forums got emotional or just full of the endless 'X (Y) is better than Y (X)' brought me to leaving them altogether years ago. It's even worse than finding the proverbial needle in the haystack. Lets just all do our best to keep our senses and not let the blogosphere go the same route.


• Tips For Improving Your Programming Skills - The Computer Zone
  All good tips here, the best one maybe is that you shouldn't try to understand everything about the new language before starting to code:
  ' Write a program, Read other peoples code, Plan before you start coding, Work with other programmers '


• Where have all the vendor agnostic BI firms gone? - Dave Oliver
  via Steve Pietrek


• Simplify the usability of your generic methods with type parameter inference - .NET Tip of The Day
  I didn't know this handy codesaver/simplifier


• Website architecture is backwards - Mads Kristensen