LINKBLOG for January 22, 2008

• Did you know... You can dock a tool window to the top of the IDE? - #134 - Sara Ford
  


• Dealing with hierarchical structures in databases - Oren Eini
  


• Some essential Visual Studio tools - Jim Bogard
  Really, you're doing yourself a big disfavour if not using any addons to Visual Studio


• Defensive Coding best practice - Derik Whittaker
  ' The author of this code decided that there will NEVER be a situation where the filter will not find a result. Oops. '


• Image Target Zoom (Pan Zoom) - LowlyServ-Ant
  ' To pan and zoom to a point of interest in an image ' (at the same time)


• 50 Tips, Tweaks and Hacks to Make the Most of Google Calendar - Christina Laun
  If you just started using Google Calender you *will* need these tips!
  via Matt Hinze


• Reinventing the Clipboard - Jeff Atwood
  ' It's a mystery to me why none of the major operating systems have bothered improving the clipboard '


• Who Accessed My File? - Sasha Goldshtein
  Auditing explained and made easy. Nice blog btw, found via Jason Haley


• The Chinese Finger Trap Part II: Architecture, Development, and QA - Damon Poole
  


• Stay Productive with Bug Tracking - Yaron Sinai
  If you change the product name just with 'a bug tracking tool', it is a bit less like an advertisement


• Writing Maintainable Code Considered Harmful - Soon Hui
  ' Now XYZ needs to cover the genius' code. It's an uphill battle ' There is a lot of ABC's in this world, as there are XYZ's


• Pricing the Ultimate Developer Rig 7 Months Later - K. Scott Allen
  So this means if you wait 7 months hardware rates drop by almost one-third?


• Sharing application settings across projects in VS2005 (and VS2008) - Julia Lerman