LINKBLOG for December 21, 2007

• Cross Site Scripting and letting the framework deal with it - Oren Eini
  


• Survival Strategies For The Insanely Interested: Freelancing - Jarkko Laine
  ' Freelancing is also a good way to make a living for someone insanely interested in everything: It lets you work on different projects with different people, as well as get your feet wet in running your own business '


• Developer Faceoff: Scott Hanselman vs. Phil Haack - Max Pool
  Who wins? You decide!


• Don’t unit-test GUI - Hans-Eric Grönlund
  In my opinion, unit-testing should test functionality, not usability


• Benchmark Driven Development - Lies, Damn Lies, and Benchmarks - Dennis Forbes
  ' Just as I dramatically changed the IE results in less than a minute of code changing, I'd guarantee that I could do the same with the other outliers (in particular the longer Firefox tests) '


• C# 3.0 Features - Marlon Grech
  ' Shows the new language features for C# 3.0 '


• How to avoid regression bugs while adding new features - Patrick Smacchia
  


• How-To: New ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Video Screencasts - Scott Hanselman
  


• Foundations of Programming - Part 5 – Unit Testing - Karl Seguin
  ' Unit tests aren't only about mitigating high-risk changes (...) The point is that I can make a fundamental or minor change to our system, right click the solution, select "Run Tests" and within 2 minutes know where we stand '


• RD Stuck? - Greg Young
  Remote desktop is always in for trouble when you're under pressure. Greg shows how to kill remote sessions


• Did it with .NET - Twelve Days of Refactor! X-mas, Day One: Make Implicit
  Day 1: Make Implicit


• F### yeh! i still got it baby! - Leon Bambrick
  ' I love learning by doing... you change a little bit and then you run it again... then you tweak something else and you see what happens... '


• Die beep! die! - Angus Logan
  Cool tip via Steve Pietrek!