LINKBLOG for January 14, 2008

• Indicating Progress During Presentations - Adam Barr
  Funny


• Did you know... There are 9 IDE Tool Window docking targets - Sara Ford
  


• Creating a Data Set From Scratch in C# - Rhonda Tipton
  


• Catching Handled Exceptions During Debugging - Omer van Kloeten
  ' Got an exception being thrown with only its name being displayed in the output window? Want to catch that exception? '
  Quick tip


• Losing Trust and Moving On - Kathleen Dollard
  Some inspiration if you think all is bad on your side: ' (...) oh my goodness! If in all the troubles of the world, I say “I've been through a difficult week” because of anything to do with a car, let me be immensely grateful '


• .NET Framework 3.5 Namespace poster Updated - Brad Abrams
  


• Free Professional Diff Tool from SourceGear - Ken Cox
  ' It's FREE...Enjoy! '


• Programmer's Hemispheric Brain Dominance Test
  A survey to find out which part dominates with you: ' the software development process is enhanced when all of our senses are used. This includes using your less dominant hemisphe '


• 101 Great Computer Programming Quotes - Chad Myers
  Quotes galore


• Academia in Real World Development
  ' Designing a maintainable system? Building a usable framework? Creating the domain model?
  For those I am going to not going to go to the academia (...) '


• Why do Some Projects Continue to Push Unrealistic Software Development Schedules? - Follow Steph
  Ever try to sprint a mile? What about a marathon?


• InfoQ: Talking .NET Code Analysis with Patrick Smacchia
  via Ade Miller


• Visual Studio 2008 CSS Support - Not Quite - Ben Scheirman
  ' I guess if you don’t know CSS very well, you might want some options. But that form is more confusing to me than border-top: solid 1px #999; '


• Controlling the unit test environment - Igloo Coder
  


• Cut a line into memory - .NET Tip of The Day
  I'm always doing this with Ctrl+X instead of Ctrl+L...


• Hiring based off years of experience, an analogy with art and the NBA - Tim Stall
  


• Confucius On Programming - Charles Chen
  ' One of the favorite classes that I took in college was an introductory course to Chinese philosophy '


• That to This - Rands In Repose
  ' It’s in this spirit that I offer a brief list of ways I’ve learned to improve my writing over the past year '

The Jan 12 entry was pretending to be issued on Jan 11, but probably no-one noticed...