LINKBLOG for December 18, 2007

• The Microsoft MVP Award - Jim Glass
  Some explanation, just so you know.
  


• Get stuck in to Visual Studio 2008 - Tim Anderson
  ' Why has it taken Microsoft more than a year since the launch of Vista to deliver full developer support for the premier features of its latest operating system, whose features were unveiled four years ago? '
  


• Looking at the List (3 of 6 or 7) - Kathleen Dollard
  ' Here's the next set of annotation for the list of reasons your development is crazy. '
  


• Looking at the List (4 of 6 or 7) - Kathleen Dollard
  And still more.
  


• Deep clean your build - Ade Miller
  ' My experience is that over time and in the presence of custom build steps the bin and obj directories accumulate stale files '
  


• [RowTest] for NUnit, File System Interfaces for unit testing - Roy Osherove
  


• Forrester study of metrics usage in application development - Anton Litvinenko
  ' (...) the 2 biggest obstacles of metrics collection are requirement of manual effort and unnaturalness '
  


• How to Videos: Short .NET Security programming videos - Robert Shelton
  ' How do I: - Prevent a Cross Site Request Forgery Security Flaw in an ASP.NET Application? - Encrypt My Web.Config File? - Use Discretionary Access Control Lists in Windows? '
  


• I am filled with solutions : Learn to “get traction” in your team - Dustin Andrews
  ' When you see how much influence you have you will be shocked ' via Iterate More, Plan Less - J.D. Meier
  


• Firefox Releases Quick Personas, Switch Skins on the Fly - Marshall Kirkpatrick
  Idea. Seams nice.
  


• The Boo Language - Oren Eini
  It's not 1.0 yet but ' Boo has been around for a number of years, and I have been using it for production for the last two years '
  For the rest it seems like an angry language to me :-)
  


• Software Registration Keys - Jeff Atwood
  Love them or hate them, but they have their time and place:
  ' Although computers have changed radically in the last thirty years, human behavior hasn't '