LINKBLOG for January 19, 2008

• Build a Simple Watermarking Utility in C# - Scott Lysle
  


• Prefer Loose Coupling - Steve Rowe
  Some good advice ' If you are accessing the members of an object and not through a method/property, you are too tightly coupled '


• Free Download: Visual Studio Developer e-book - Robert Shelton
  ' Microsoft is offering you a free e-book with excerpts from 3 of the more popular MSPress titles on LINQ, AJAX and SilverLight 1.0 '


• Some Good Development Article Series - Rhonda Tipton
  Nice overview of some recent articles


• Check-in policies signify a lack of trust - Matt Berther
  ' If a software development organization needs to put check-in policies in place, then there are some other fundamental problems that are going on within the organization '


• Best C# Web Sites - Timm Martin
  A little over a dozen sites, some new to me, covering a wide spectrum of development using C#


• Adventures with Team Foundation Server 2008 - The VSS 2005 Bait and Switch - Mark Mullin
  


• Do You Have What it Takes to be a Great Leader? - Cultivate Greatness
  


• Build vs. Compile - Tim Stall
  ' So, the moral is that "Build" != "Compile". Rather, Compile is just a subset of Build '


• Dependency Injection - Is it relevant beyond unit testing? - Roy Osherove
  


• Immutability in C# Part Eight: Even More On Binary Trees - Eric Lippert
  


• Did it with .NET - The Ultimate Developer Rig: Final Build
  Cool hardware thingies