LINKBLOG for December 22, 2007

Almost Christmas, as if you didn't know... side effect being the blogosphere getting more quiet

• Faceoff! Haack vs Hanselman - It Gets Real - Phil Haack
  Phil gets a bit more in depth on the questions
  


• Exception Handling Best Practices Part 1 - Alexander Klimetschek
  


• Generating Changes - Sean Feldman
  ' One of the biggest questions is "why". Why would someone bother to code to interfaces, if could deliver a working application without it '


• Is ‘Highly Repeatable’ deserving of its evil reputation? - Adam Goucher
  


• How and when should data decay? - Mike Hall
  ' There’s a relatively new concept out there called “data decay” (...) that deals with the process of how data gradually becomes incorrect and out of date over time and how it should be handled '


• Nobody cares about what your code looks like? Really? - Soon Hui
  ' For those who can produce popular software despite writing ugly code, Congratulation! But I bet most of us can't. Writing maintainable code is the only sensible path for us to take


• LINQ Performance Test: My First Visual Studio 2008 Project - Guy Vider
  LINQ for beginners:
  ' A sample Visual Studio 2008 project that compares the performance of LINQ to simpler loops '


• Twelve Days of Refactor! X-mas, Day Two: Make Explicit - Dustin Campbell
  


• Programmers on Fire: Confessions of a bad web developer
  ' I've been moonlighting with the ASP.Net MVC framework lately. Not a lot, just enough to get acquainted for right now. Yesterday I had my "Road to Damascus" incident. I don't know HTML '