LINKBLOG for September 30, 2007

• Unit testing the data access layer - Buu Nguyen
  


• Strategies for Effective Code Reviews - Basil Vandegriend
  


• Just some little fundamental things to help you CodeBetter - Jeremy D. Miller
  


• Multi-Targeting VS2005 and VS2008 Web Application Projects, a Gotcha! - Steven Harman
  


• Why you have time for TDD (but may not know it yet...) - Dean Wampler
  


• The Dispose pattern - Deterministic Finalization - Coding Sanity
  


• Source code and lullabies - (Infant Driven Development) Minddriven
  ahh, finally an xDD with which I have 5+ years of experience :-) BTW, all xDD acronyms are now officially taken
  


• Generating a GUID in C# - Rhonda Tipton
  


• Coding Standards by Juval Lowy - Scott Cate
  post links to 24 page PDF doc
  


• C#/.NET History Lesson - James Kovacs
  the language's name has a surprising origin
  via Paulo Morgado
  


• A Little Design Advice - Steve Rowe
  


• BAD - Broken As Designed - Adam Goucher
  

LINKBLOG for September 29, 2007

• *** Agile Advice from Fred George - Steve Eichert
  pointers to several articles; don't go there if 'not all programmers are created equal' sounds shocking to you


• How do you keep up with new technology? - 37signals
  


• The Old New Thing : 2007 Q3 link clearance: Microsoft blogger edition - Raymond Chen
  new (quarterly) linkblogger around the corner?
  via Jason Haley


• Learing Rails is Easy, Mastering Rails is Hard - Jay Fields
  Havent'Rails at least a glimpse so far? Just spend an hour with it. During that hour you can set it up and have your first app running easily. Even if you spend your whole life in ASP.NET, it can be insightful to see there is another world out there


• A Visual Guide to Version Control - BetterExplained
  lengthy but good explanation


• Top Sites for Logophiles - Josh Catone
  for those who love words...


• Barely Out Of Beta #3 - Nectarine Juice
  via Jim Glass


• Armchair Agilist - Scott Bellware
  


• 10 Hot ASP.NET Tips and Tricks - AjaxNinja
  


• Wunda's World: Good practices are beyond testing
  via Ayende


• The basics requirements of a developer - Ayende Rahien
  


• We Need More .txt - Abhijit Nadgouda
  nice thought, but unfortunately we are way past the practicalities of using text files by default


• You never know unless you try! - Friday Reflections
  title says it all: some stories about people who 'just did'


• Microsoft - Surviving First Three Weeks as a Remote Employee - Scott Hanselman
  Scott gives more insight into life at Microsoft, and the whole new lingo even he has to make his own


• Some VisualStudio featurettes that could save me 15mn a day - Patrick Smacchia
  


• What are the Alt.Net principles? - my answer - Jeffrey Palermo
  


• An architect should code. Period - Peter van Ooijen
  couldn't agree more. Period


• Introducing xUnit.NET - Adam Goucher
  


• A simple Business Object wrapper for LINQ to SQL - Rick Strahl
  I do not know Rick personally, but at least he's not known for the shortness of his articles


• Dynamic SQL: Yea or Nay? - Charles Chen
  Me says this debate will never end

LINKBLOG for September 28, 2007

Why I decided to stop using C# and get back to punched cards: read all about it here shortly

• Useless Tip of the Day: There is no Ctrl+F in books - Sara Ford
  Lately I was reading some printed article, and at the end of the page, I grabbed my mouse. For real!


• Coding Model-View-Presenter with CodeRush
  via Maurice de Beijer and Mark Miller comes this video explaining the use of CodeRush and Refactor. Warning: do NOT watch this video if you have a head-ache, or are susceptible to epileptic seizures


• "Unit tests take too much time".... WTF - Derik Whittaker
  life takes time


• Capturing Minimized Window: A kid’s trick - Hessam Jalali, The Code Project
  


• The New Life of Joe - Part One - Off to a cold start - Nick Malik
  Nick promises an ongoing story on this character Joe, who just got a promotion in an IT department somewhere


• A Simple API over the Web -
  get any website in XML, or just the parts you need. Flexibility all over the place
  old article (well, March), very cool idea
  via Mhinze


• There's A Bug - The Braidy Tester
  no comment from this dev


• Say hello, static constructor? - Robert Chipperfield
  


• MSIL Decompiler Theory - Maruf Maniruzzaman, The Code Project
  

LINKBLOG for September 27, 2007

• Agile vs. Traditional Development Cost Models ...Maybe - AgileJoe
  


• .Net: Passing user data with Exception back to the caller method
  ' Reader... meet Exception.Data. Exception.Data... meet reader '


• Alt.Net does NOT equal Anti-Microsoft - Raymond Lewallen
  


• 15+ Free Visual Studio Add-Ins - Carl J
  Wow, found lots of new things in this extensive list from Carl!


• Forgotten Purpose - Igloocoder
  on how easy the relationship between IT and Business can get out of hands and what to do about it


• OLPC "Give 1 Get 1" initiative a sign of trouble for the project - Ryan Paul
  Ever since the beginning of the ambitious (and honorable!) OLPC project, I wondered if they were not overly optimistic: needing countries as customers, taking orders in the millions, and thought that wouldn't be a problem. Still their goal is cool...


• Overview of Firefox security oriented extensions for pen-testing - Security4all
  might not interest you at all, but did you know a browser can be a handy tool for security investigations?


• Contractor Blamed in DHS Data Breaches - washingtonpost.com
  oops, failing to deliver is something we all do every now and then (don't we), but covering that up is something else


• The problem with "I'll just wait until school to learn to program" Tim Stall
  Nothing comes to you for free, only if you *really* want something yourself, you can make things happen


• 10 More Future Web Trends - Read/Write Web
  RSS readers are going away: ' 10. Blog reading automatically input into our brain '


• Stop the spying - i like ellipses…
  politically oriented post by developer Mike Hall


• Can Your Team Pass The Elevator Test? - Jeff Atwood
  Jeff nails it again:
  ' Software developers think their job is writing code. But it's not. Their job is to solve the customer's problem '


• My goodness, were's gone my Properties window?!? - A developer's strayings
  Drag the window away from your desktop and it's "gone". Is this a usability bug, or by-design, me wonders?


• Confessions of a Terrible Programmer - 'Marc'
  ' Be a testing masochist, i.e., I ruthlessly try to break my own code '
  It's even fun to hammer on your own code, because it makes you a better (and hopefully more humble) programmer


• Why Programmers Don't Like Relational Databases - Typical Programmer
  AS Object databases or whatever alternative have still not really taken up, RDBMS's will be around for a long time. Never really had a problem with them though, but I always have worked with them


• Dynamically Inject Validation Controls From A Base ASP.NET Page - Jayson Knight
  


• Effective user interface testing - Gojko Adzic
  


• Explaining the Excel Bug - Joel Spolsky
  


• How Hard Could It Be?: Unfocused and Unabashed - Joel Spolsky
  Joel is on a spree


• Throwing Exceptions: Will You be Able to Catch What You Expect? - Jay Miller
  if you forgot the difference between throw; and throw ex;


• Google GMail E-mail Hijack Technique - GNUCITIZEN
  Hmm, GMail seems to be under heavy fire this week...


• Taskbar Shuffle - Dave Donaldson
  some people create a cure for problems the rest of the world was not aware of

Do you know of any way to block a domain from showing up in Google results, maybe with a Firefox plugin? Would really like to get rid of sites like experts-exchange hiding/obfuscating all answers, stimulating you to send money into their direction. Not nice!