LINKBLOG for January 16, 2007

• Using Remote Assistance behind a router - Keith Brown
  


• Never keep your emotions bottled up - Eric Sink
  ' Last week I was considering the purchase of a piece of software. I went to the vendor's website for pricing. It wasn't there '


• CSV Format Encoder and Decoder - Liu Junfeng
  


• Security and Permissions - Rob Teixeira
  ' (...) what you really want in most cases is to restrict actions to more abstract entities, rather than restrict actions to specific UI elements '


• Why Your Manager Doesn’t Like To Throw Away Work (And You Do) - Max Pool
  ' Learning not to cry wolf every 5 minutes is important '
  Some good, partially harsh, advice from Max


• TFS Tips - Steven Smith
  As we start to work with TFS 2008 soon I'm looking forward to the promissed article


• Did you know... Shift+Click automatically docks an auto-hiding tool window? - #129 - Sara Ford
  


• SubSonic And MVC: Introducing Makai - Rob Conery
  


• On-line backup hosts - Chris Brandsma
  It doesn't matter how you do them, if at least you DO them


• Why not remote developers? - Kyle Baley
  


• Immutable types: understand their benefits and use them - Patrick Smacchia
  On immutable classes, closures and anonymous types


• Making the switch to online apps - Michael Eaton
  ' This gives me the ability to access that information from anywhere that has a connection plus I'm not having to worry about losing the data if anything happens to my laptop '
  Online can be handy, but do you trust Google to make backups for you?
  


• Interviewing - Types of questions - Scott Schimanski
  Quite a lot of advice to refresh your interview question set


• Types of Parallelism - Jon Skeet
  There's more than one type of parallelism


• Syntactic Sugar, Compiler Candy, and Other Sweets - James Kovacs
  Overview: lots of new things in Visual Studio 2008


• BitDiffer, anyone? - Roy Osherove
  Just what I need!


• Abusing using statements - Jimmy Bogard
  They're nice, but don't overdo them


• *** Heroes and Villains - Peter Provost
  This piece once again stresses the vital importance of your team on productivity and quality. Being a rockstar programmer is only possible if you're working on your own