LINKBLOG for January 17, 2008

• So I Quit My Day Job - Holy Cow! I Took the Plunge - Leo Babauta
  Isn't that a dream of a lot of us?


• Dream Big, Take Some Risks, Reap the Rewards - Jean-Paul Boodhoo
  Even more dreams here over at Jean-Paul's


• No ASP.NET debugging with Vista Home Premium - Mike Hall
  good to know this if you're still in the which-Vista-for-me phase


• Speed Up Gmail IMAP by Working Offline - Chinh Do
  Have tried and immediately given up on using GMail/IMAP because the 40K+ emails in my folders were constantly being synchronised, making it slow in OE. Now this simple tip didn't occur to me, so check it out if you have the same problem


• Rethinking Software Development - David Chu
  ' Since your developers are required to write test cases, application defects will be realized earlier - even before they reach the build phase! '


• Database Skills: A Sane Approach To Choosing Primary Keys - The Database Programmer
  


• Don't Be Ashamed of Your Code - Tim Kadlec
  ' Particularly in an industry as fast moving as the web development industry is, you cannot afford to wait until you are an "expert" to code '


• How To Motivate Yourself To Make Decisions Quickly - Keith A. Shaw
  some tips to motivate yourself:
  ' Set your alarm clock for the time you wish to get up and arise at exactly that fixed time — do not hit the snooze button '


• Beware Obfuscating Jargon - Elisabeth Hendrickson
  A plea for clear language


• Building A City - The Series - Bil Simser
  If you're interested in both games and opensourced code bases, follow up this ongoing series on SimCity


• Tester to Developer Ratios - Adam Goucher
  You can discuss endlessly, but Adam likes the pragmatic approach:
  '(...) the more important questions about these sorts of ratios are
  1. what is your current ratio?
  2. is it working? '


• Sun Microsystems Buys MySQL AB And … - Abhijit Nadgouda
  I never really followed whatever happened to mySQL, it was just there being an open source alternative still a bit in it's infancy. But has it finally grown up to start being a real competitor for the other database vendors?


• Did you know... You can auto-hide all of your tool windows with one command? - #130 - Sara Ford
  Then add an additional shortcut key, and also be gone with the mouse


• Getting started with VisualSVN - Mike In Madison
  


• Video on debugging into the .NET source code - Daniel Moth
  If you need some more advice getting the framework code spelunking to work


• Recent Book News, Part Two - Eric Lippert
  The C# 2.0 Cookbook was (is) a nice one, giving small but real-world scenario's for all the common thing you want to do with the Framework using C#. Now the 3.0 Cookbook is out


• .NET Framework Library Source Code available for viewing - Scott Hanselman
  If you like to review the code that Microsoft wants you to see