LINKBLOG for November 29, 2007

• 11 Ways Agile Adoptions Fail - Jean Tabaka
  


• Best Agile Books the 2007 Edition - Mark Levison
  


• .NET Framework 3.5 Affects 2.0 - Sean Feldman
  I'm starting to think more and more that the new release of VS2008 accompanies by the new framework is more beta than we thought


• Fuzzy Search: Check this out and report back please, o lazy web - Leon Bambrick
  incremental search is the coolest thing since...whatever


• Did you know... How to use undo to jump the cursor back to the last insertion point? - Sara Ford
  


• Spawning threads in .NET (Part 1 of 5), The Basics - Shafqat Ahmed
  ' There is no time deterministic way of scheduling code executing in a thread '
  This is a key point to understand when you're writing multi-threaded apps


• Displaying different colored text to the console (just like MSBuild) - Tim Stall
  one of those simple tips you think you could have thought of yourself, but you didn't


• Is Your Business About You? -- Jarkko Laine
  On personal branding


• What colour is your toolbox? - Mark Derricutt
  ' if you're chosen platform keeps you productive enough to provide benefit to the client - you're doing better than most IT projects and don't need to change '
  via Reg Braithwaite


• Detecting Text Encoding for StreamReader - Rick Strahl
  Rick shows some code to sniff the encoding of a file
  via Jason Haley


• A Survey of Pseudo Random Number Generators - Jeffrey Walton
  In-depth article on the history of PRNG's and when to use which one


• From C# to Java: Part 4 - Eric Sink
  ' As I started my recent foray into the Eclipse world, I was eager to explore the area of plugins over on this side of the fence. So far, I'm impressed '


• There's No Money In The Long Tail of the Blogosphere
  ' is it [the long tail] in danger of falling apart? '
  Well, for that matter: at least the situation at the A-list bloggers is also not that stable, see Scott Adams


• Developer? Working On The Latest Technology For Your Project??? - George P. Alexander
  Stepping in to new technology is partly dependent on the *kind* of software you produce: sometimes it's definitely is an advantage to use beta's, sometimes not
  


• Ring of Fire - Simulator - Eric Gunnerson
  


• code.google.com/p/jpboodhoo!!! - Jean-Paul Boodhoo
  Jean Paul has put a lot of code on Google. Check it out (yes, pun intended)