LINKBLOG for January 11, 2008

• Are you "virtual"? - Terry Thibodeau
  " In fact, the blog you're reading right now is hosted on a Windows 2003 server virtual machine running in VMware ESX server along side 7 other virtual machines '


• SimCity Source Code Released to the Wild! Let the ports begin... - Bil Simser
  


• File System Transactions - still a problem area? - Alexander Olaru
  On the way towards transactional file systems


• main differences between C# and Java - Ghulam Murtaza
  In case you're new to any of the two


• Kirill Osenkov: How to create a generic List of anonymous types? - Kirill Osenkov
  ' If a type is going to be reused, give it a proper name and declaration. Anonymous types don't scale (at least, not in C# 3.0). '


• Generated Tests and TDD - Uncle Bob
  TDD = good. More code = bad. Is generating test code the solution? Bob shines his light


• Writing An Appender For log4net - Alteridem Consulting
  


• The truth which makes waterfall advocates go blind - Chad Myers' Blog
  Funny. Chad did some research to see *if* Waterfall is used in mission-critical stuff:
  ' It's Scientific Frans, Waterfall Doesn't Work; All Non-Agile Projects Eventually Devolve into Necessary Sub-Standard Agile '


• Designing a Generic Database Layer - Jesse Ezell Blog
  


• Whatever happened to code reviews? - Reg Braithwaite
  ' Ownership and accountability is (...) enhanced when you provide a programmer with freedom and follow up with review '


• How I Almost Invented Social Bookmarking -- Jarkko Laine
  ' The next time you have an idea that you think might well work out, don’t just think about it. Do it.
  That’s how miracles are made! '