LINKBLOG for November 6, 2007

• Warning: Software Startups are Not as Easy as Everyone Says - Rob Walling
  ' (...) put your head down, become an expert in your field, work your ass off, and someday, maybe…you’ll have a taste of success '
  


• Does Software Allow For Moore’s Law? - Abhijit Nadgouda
  


• Preferring Inheritance to Delegation - Michael Feathers
  


• Guidance over governance - GrabBag<T>
  ' Since how a team delivers is at least as important as what a team delivers, how can IT influence the "how" '
  


• Thottam R. Sriram : Calling delegates using BeginInvoke, Invoke, DynamicInvoke and delegate
  ' Till I wrote this, I didn’t realize that there are 6 ways to invoke a delegate '
  


• In depth with .NET RegEx balanced grouping - Morten Maate
  


• Build Windows Event Log Watcher Service Process to Export Event Log Entries as RSS feed - aleksisa
  


• Building A Feed Reader #3: Downloading Feeds - Bits.Bytes.
  


• Chris's Weblog - Visual Studio Source Code
  


• Requirements Writing Style and Synonyms - Scott Sehlhorst
  


• *** Off topic: Advice - Reg Braithwaite
  These thing have tobe saud every now and then. Additionaly: do remember that if public means 'the net' everything you say can and will be forever googled/live'd or whatever search engine you or everyone looking for you prefers
  


• File Open Performance -- Beware of 'Extensions' - Rico Mariani
  Oftentimes there's more to debugging than you are aware of....
  


• The World's Oldest Source Code Repositories - Ohloh
  via Mike G. come some very old source code repositories
  


• The Moth: Top 10 things to know about Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5
  via Sam Gentile
  


• Don't Click Here: The Art of Hyperlinking - Jeff Atwood
  A quick search on Amazon suggests Jeff has not written any book on all the stuff he puts on his blog: his bundled entries would provide an interesting overview of the current state in software/hardware/web/tech...
  


• This is NOT a test - Rick van den Bosch
  Nice example showing that 100% code coverage doesn't guarantee top-quality code: ' This unittest does result in 100% code coverage, but does not test all the scenario's applicable to the method '
  


• LINQ Farm: Querying a Collection of Integers - Charlie Calvert
  


• SubSonic: MVC Preview Video - Rob Conery
  Rob is showing the new ASP.NET MVC framework in action. Nice video, heavily reminding me of a video from DHH on using Rails (where was that thing?). It even looked like he was playing around with Rails (is that a big congrats or cursing in church?)
  


• Announcing: The .NET Framework 3.5 Commonly Used Types and Namespaces poster - Paul Andrew
  Be the first one with the new Framework poster!
  


• How To Sell Agile To Fixed Bid Contract Clients - {codesqueeze}
  On contract types and the importance of building a trust relationship with your client