LINKBLOG for December 15, 2007

• Microsoft Team Systems - Open Source Alternatives - Rod Paddock
  


• Guerrilla refactoring, or "How to bring down a totalitarian regime" - Kyle Baley
  ' When we're done, there will be no discernible difference to the application from your perspective but we in the IT department will sure feel better about ourselves '


• Code Smell: Solution Explosion - Chris Bilson
  Bottom line: think very long and hard before implementing your project in more than 1 solution


• Moore on the Anonymous Delegate Approach - Chad Myers
  


• Generating compiler warnings for calls to an obsolete methods - .NET Tip of The Day
  


• Common project settings for your Visual Studio solution - Ade Miller
  nice tip!


• C# 3.0 Tutorial: Implicitly Typed Variables - Programmers Heaven
  quite clear and to-the-point intro into everything new in C# 3.0`


• Why Use Continuous Integration - Beginner's Overview - Scott C. Reynolds
  even if you don't do CI, checking in often is quite important if the size of your group exceeds 1


• Meetings vs Cell Phones - Jeremy Neuharth
  ' Would it be better to remember what our mother’s taught us about basic social skills? '


• Anti-Patterns and Malpractices, Volume 1: Tumbling Data - Adam Machanic
  ' The solution to this problem is simple, of course, and the best software engineers do it automatically: Before writing a line of code sit back for just a moment and consider your end goal '
  via Jason Haley


• Releasing My Code Snippet Repository - Omer van Kloeten
  


• Getting Started with TFS Build Virtualizer - Mitch Denny
  


• Rob Conery » ASP.NET MVC: Choosing Your Data Access Method
  ' I’ve been asked a lot over the last few weeks this question:
  "Should I use SubSonic, LinqToSql, or NHibernate?" '


• Contracted Conversations - The Braidy Tester
  ' Do you want me to problem solve or empathize or something else?" She told me she wanted empathizing, not problem solving '
  And even then, the trick is to recognize the answer she anticipates in advance :-)


• Review: Windows XP - Coding Sanity
  ' Microsoft have really outdone themselves in delivering a brand new operating system that really excels in all the areas where Vista was sub-optimal '
  What to add? My brand new laptop was pre-installed with Windows XP. Only one shop could help out


• TFS dog fooding and memory issue admissions - Craig Bailey
  Referral to interesting Microsoft article giving the stats on the number of files and workitems they deal with themselves


• Most Promising for Web 2008: Open Source Movement - Richard MacManus
  


• Encouraging people to contribute knowledge - Official Google Blog
  What's that buzzing sound? It's the blogosphere talking about Google's new more: to combat Wikipedia


• Does Agile Development Make Changes Cheaper? - Abhijit Nadgouda
  


• The Daily Grind #1295 - Mike Gunderloy
  ' And the week winds down quietly. Just a reminder: The Daily Grind itself will be winding down at the end of the year ' This was not unexpected of course, but still. Give a big shout-out to Mike over on his comments. He deserves it for all the work he's done (and still does, of course!)