LINKBLOG for January 11, 2008

• Don't fear the Linq Query... it's often a variation of a foreach loop - Jay Kimble
  


• Typing And Programming Efficiency | iface thoughts
  ' Do you think typing helps you when you code, document, write or capture data? '


• SubSonic: Version 2.1 (Pakala) Preview: The New Query Tool - Rob Conery
  


• Adding Blog Posts to Google Reader Shared Items without Subscribing - Matt Blodgett
  ' I've been addicted to Google Reader for about a year now. It's completely changed the way I consume information, and I absolutely love it '
  I don't. Couldn't find any way to skim the items faster that on Bloglines, so I stick with that one!


• The waterfall which makes Agile pundits go blind - Frans Bouma
  Oops!
  ' This morning I made a mistake: I used the W word in a post '


• Bridging the Communities - Billy McCafferty
  ' It's certainly hard, if not impossible, to determine which non-Microsoft alternatives and open-source projects encapsulate "the next great idea." But to ignore them all impedes innovation, stifles "pushing the envelope (...) '


• Log4Net Config to Make Your Loggin' Rockin' - 'Brian'
  ' Tired of seeing 10,343 error emails when your application blows up? So you finally took a hint and got around to logging your web application '


• On doing take home assignments before getting an interview - Derik Whittaker
  ' I personally think that asking a developer to spend 10 hours of their free time in order to simply get an interview is a little extreme '
  Me thinks so too. No problem with 1-2 hours for something like this, but the are limits


• Visual Studio 2008 New Multi-Threaded Debugging Feature - Justin Etheredge
  One of the many, many new small thingies in Visual Studio 2008. I consider myself lucky as our team also starts using it


• Your first ****** stinks! - Jeremy D. Miller
  ' One of the upfront design proponents accused myself and others for having Attention Deficit Disorder by jumping into coding early without "careful" research first. I think he got it exactly backwards '


• The Enduring Art of Computer Programming - Jeff Atwood
  ' (...) today is Donald Knuth's seventieth birthday '


• Software as a Biological Ecosystem - J. Ambrose Little
  Maybe the right approach to managing complexity in business software is something akin to creating a biological ecosystem


• Choosing an agile process - Part 3: Evaluation - Ade Miller