LINKBLOG for November 23, 2007

• the joy of pair programming - Wunda's World
  


• 20 Companies To Inspire You Today -- Jarkko Laine
  


• "Developer Mode" - Aaron Lerch
  ' Do you ever find yourself arguing for something that’s “correct” in the face of what’s “usable”? '


• FollowSteph.com » 12 Tips on How to Prepare Your Laptop for a Presentation
  ' 1. Close all instant chat clients
  2. Close your email client '
  Some tips may be obvous, but worth remembering, to prevent you for some possibly embassaring situations


• BitDiffer - Binary Diff'ing of .Net Assemblies - Greg Duncan
  via Jason Haley


• Optimize Late, Benchmark Early - Hans-Eric Grönlund
  ' When should you start optimizing your system? There are different opinions (...) '


• Did you know... How to run external executables from the VS command line? - Sara Ford
  


• Passing Parameter by Value and by Reference ("ref"). CLR Internals - Armen Ayvazyan
  The article is a bit basic, but if you cannot dream the difference between value types and reference types, you should read this


• Code Liability: Effective Code Reviews... the next steps - Mark Lindell
  ' I just don't think the culture shift to pair programming is going to be something that is ever dropped into an existing organization '


• Windows Services Can Install Themselves - W. Kevin Hazzard
  ' Never use the InstallUtil.exe utility that ships with the .NET SDK again '


• Ruby.NET Released - Dr. Dobb's
  


• Installing VS 2008 on Vista makes me want to kill myself - Trying This Again
  ' After numerous attempts at installing VS 2008 on Vista machines, I’m about ready to switch to vim '
  Don't do any of them: killing yourself or switching to vim...


• Generics Memory Usage - Miguel de Icaza
  


• FxCop - From the software development trenches - Carel Lotz
  Admittedle I never came any further than just trying FxCop out for some time because I was overwhelmed by the enormous rulesets. Never made the desicion to either change my coding style or bend FxCop's rules :-)


• And The Winners Are… - 1st Annual Codequeeze Reader Awards - Max Pool
  thanks for the t-shirts!


• VS2008 - Bringing Attention To An Issue - Jean-Paul Boodhoo
  Jean Paul ran into some problems installing VS2008. Fortunately he also found a solution that he shares with us


• Creating a Performance Benchmark Framework for Your .NET Codes - Mohammad Ashraful Alam
  via Steve Pietrek