LINKBLOG for November 26, 2007

• The Code Sucks, Not The Author - Mo Khan
  


• 3 Ways That Risk Separates the Winners From The Rest Of The Pack - Cultivate Greatness
  


• '100% code coverage, unless...' - Rick van den Bosch
  


• Concurrency Learning Curve - Kevin Farnham
  This itself is a referal to an interesting discussion on multi-threaded software development. With the rise in mulit-core machines this topic gains tremendous importance


• A vision of enterprise platform: Hot & Distributed Deployment - Ayende Rahien
  ' I am saying that as someone whose standard deployment procedure has two steps, "svn up" and "build.cmd" '


• Professionalism in Software Development - Dave Balzer
  


• Ajax with the ASP.NET MVC Framework - Nikhil Kothari
  


• Abstract Factory Design Pattern - Armen Ayvazyan
  Implementation of this pattern in C#. The only gripe I have is that managers have 21'' monitors in the example and developers only 19... :-)


• Foundations of Programming - Part 1 - Introduction - Karl Seguin [MVP]
  ' A few years ago I was fortunate enough to turn a corner in my programming career. The opportunity for solid mentoring presented itself, and I took full advantage of it ' For a starting dev this really is the best that you can happen...


• *** The Two Types of Programmers - Jeff Atwood
  ' (...) the true measure of success isn't how many alpha geeks you can get to pay attention to you. It's how many typical, average programmers you've reached out to, if only in some small way '


• Can expressive languages make code more accessible to the masses? - Reg Braithwaite
  Tried to find a typical quote for the article, but that proved difficult. Read the complete thing to get see what it's about


• C# vNext - Ayende Rahien
  Ayende responds to Jeremy Miller's post on the topic


• FruitfulTime Blog - Make every second count!
  ' You can spend the time you save by using the above techniques doing something else, such as having fun and relaxing '
  .. or by reading more posts :-(
  thanks Rhonda!


• Instant Messaging Rules of Engagement - Brent Strange