LINKBLOG for December 1, 2007

• Wiring the house for a Home Network - Part 5 - Gigabit Throughput and Vista - Scott Hanselman
  Scott seems done wiring his house, showing some yummy-yummy numbers when it comes to network speeds


• Does writing software backwards really improve quality? - Grant Lammi
  spoiler: the conclusion should not surprise you


• Parallel Thoughts... - Jay Kimble
  


• User Interface Design, Usability, Information Aesthetics
  ' (...) design problems in software are no easier or cheaper to resolve than hardware design flaws, and therefore we (...) must adopt better processes, principles, and expertise (...) '


• Internationalized URLs - Phil Haack
  


• Bug Eyed VS2008 Guy Freaks Me Out - Leon Bambrick
  Althoug I haven't seen this guy as often as Leon (only twice, in the last week), I certainly sympathize with him - or was that sympathise :)
  Oh look, it's Tom!


• Scaling teams up in productivity rather than in personnel - Sadek Drobi


• Definr: A Very Fast Dictionary Tool - Josh Catone
  As a non-native speaker, I sometimes use online dictionaries. This one indeed is *fast*, as is stated here


• Inbox Zero - Steve Rowe
  Inbox here is almost empty except for the items needing work now. On the other hand I tend to keep everything in archive folders for later retrieval. So that needs some thouhgt where to store them, but a lot of rest when it comes to immediate action items


• .NET Web Product Roadmap (ASP.NET, Silverlight, IIS7) - Scott Guthrie
  And so it goes: the new gets old and the future is coming faster then ever


• Getting started with BDD style Context/Specification base na - Jean-Paul Boodhoo
  


• Golden rule of web caching - Gojko Adzic
  


• TDD Test Driven Development for Beginners pt1 - Buddy Lindsey
  nice introduction if you're new to TDD: the Who, What, When, Where and How


• Sleep Overrated - Scott Cowan - [Build Knowledge] Versioning
  ' Today I’ll show you how to use NAnt and Cruise Control.Net to Version your application. '


• The Importance of Good Task Granularity - Jim Holmes
  ' Break down a large or vague task into smaller chunks so you have better scope and can see better progress '


• Mort, Elvis, Einstein, and You - Jeff Atwood
  Jeff got a ton of flak on his comments last week on the elite vs. the rest. He explains himself, with the main quote AFAIK ' But we owe it to our craft-- and to ourselves-- to reach out and help our fellow programmers, at least in some small way