LINKBLOG for January 2, 2008

• The Ambient Context Design Pattern in .NET - Andrew Matthews
  ' This pattern applies in many area that deal with runtime execution scopes such as security, thread management, or call marshalling '


• How to Slow Down Now (Please Read Slowly) - Leo Babauta
  Some inspiration to start the year slowly


• The Bottom of the Cup
  Very sound advice:
  ' I'm challenging every developer that reads this blog to reach outside of their home platform, to reach outside of their primary language, (...) and realize that the other languages out there have some great ideas as well '


• Twelve Days of Refactor! X-mas, Day Twelve: Extract XML Literal to Resource - Dustin Campbell
  


• Visual Studio 2008 Does ORM with LINQ - Marc Manuel
  


• Following Up On Giving Away Of Code - Abhijit Nadgouda
  


• Predictions for 2008 - J.D. Meier
  First predictions are starting to drip in. This one by J.D. who -don't know how- already banged out 10 'January 2008' entries


• The Daily Grind #1305 - Mike Gunderloy
  The end of an era


• Random Expectations and Unit Testing - Mohammad Azam
  


• My Favorite Podcasts Episodes of 2007 - Rhonda Tipton
  Still looking for a NewYear's resolution: what about "Listening (more) to podcasts" ?


• Tricky Code - Oren Eini
  Oops. This certainly did something else than I expected


• Christmas Roundup - Leon Bambrick
  More fractal goodness by the secretGeek