LINKBLOG for December 4, 2007

• Programming Tips #3 “Divide, Indent, Comment and Name” - Nick Halstead
  


• 10 Rules that Age of Empires Teaches about Development - Tim Stall
  ' 10. It should be fun: AoE is a good, old-fashioned-fun kind of computer game '


• Requirements for Enterprise Architecture: First Look - Scott Sehlhorst
  


• Usability is not a verb - Scott Berkun
  


• Mock Objects: Leaping out of the Language - Michael Feathers
  ' How would you create a mock object framework for a non-object oriented language? '


• Identify And Understand The Problem First - Abhijit Nadgouda
  Why do IT projects constantly fail... some thoughts: ' it might be the misconception that the real challenge is in building the solution '


• Was My Code Provability Post An Inspiration To Joel? - Phil Haack
  Phil DID already find some time to read Joel's latest and thought for a moment that 'He' had a subscription on his blog
  (Blatant bragging: I DO have a personal email from Joel dating from 2003 :-)


• Back to basics, from the DB to a simple domain object - Peter van Ooijen
  


• Automatic properties and replacing the Visual Studio 2008 'prop' snippet - Dennis van der Stelt
  A new abstraction leading to simpler code and assuming a little bit of more knowledge - always the drawback from abstractions...


• Inside Architecture : Alignment through "honeypot" funding
  ' (...) how to we create a system where people want to do the same things that EA [Enterprise Architecture - ed.] wants them to do (...) without the political battles that ensue? '


• Allocating Too Much Heap - Charles Miller
  Always be careful with memory allocation, from experience I can tell you that 2GB RAM is reached faster than you might think...


• File system mocking for the lazy programmer - Ade Miller
  


• Blogging vs Coding - Mike Arace
  ' Tricky thing, this blogging '


• Delay Loading a DLL with a Linker Switch in Visual Studio - Rick Strahl
  


• Security in Ten Years - Bruce Schneier
  ' Folks, the captains have illuminated the "Fasten your seat belts" sign. We predict bumpy conditions ahead '


• Dana Epp's ramblings at the Sanctuary: Don't waste your time renaming the Administrator account in Windows
  ' Instead prevent people from accessing it in the first place. And when that isn't available, consider using strong authentication to provide identity assurance before they can even log in '


• Talk at Yale: Part 2 of 3 - Joel Spolsky
  


• Transitive decay in social networks - John Graham-Cumming