LINKBLOG for January 26, 2008

• I don't trust me - Chad Myers
  Chad has a healthy dose of distrust towards anyone when developing software


• Try This On your Web Browser Address Bar - Soon Hui
  Absolutely funny Google javasctipt trick (remove the space between java and script to make it work


• Études for Excellence - James Shore
  ' so what's an étude? It's an exercise designed to improve technical skill through repetition. It's a musical term, but I use them for improving software development skill instead '
  found this blog back via Alvin Ashcraft


• Get intimate with your load balancer tonight! - Marc-André Cournoyer
  


• Cookies + Redirects == Nightmares - Brian Donahue
  story of a nightmare of endless debugging


• Jan 24th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Visual Studio, .NET, IIS - Scott Guthrie
  Scott can bring you up-to-date on ASP.NET much better than I could


• Top IT Security Threats of 2008 - Jim Higdon
  


• Top 5 Attributes of Highly Effective Programmers - Pepe the Cow
  Humility is no. 1, the gist being that if people like C.S. Lewis (Lion, witch and wardrobe) and Edsger Dijkstra are on your list of inspirators, definitely check out this inspirational (but long) article


• Intro to MySQL Stored Procedures - Tombatron
  OK OK, now at least we can't say anymore that MySQL doesn's support stored procs...


• secretGeek's guide to selecting a cartoon to suit your chosen IT career - Leon Bambrick
  


• Bridging gaps, and finding my role - Jon Skeet
  ' The trouble is, real experts can be hard to understand sometimes for the "average developer" '


• Network Assessment - A Guide to Infrastructure Planning - code-frog
  


• Books - Matt Blodgett
  


• My Development Tools - Christopher Bennage
  lots of opensource/free (and not so free) tools


• Should I Blog? - Jeremy D. Miller
  The Good, Bad, and Ugly reasons


• Charlie Calvert's Community Blog : Future Focus I: Dynamic Lookup
  The next version of Visual Studio will provide a common infrastructure that will enable all .NET languages, including C#, to optionally resolve names in a program at runtime instead of compile time (...) ...dynamic lookup.


• 600 Lines is a Luxury - Charles Petzold
  ' Jeff Atwood asks What Can You Build in 600 Lines of Code? As someone whose entire career is based on writing the shortest programs I can, let me take a little obnoxious trip down memory lane '


• Copilot is now free on weekends - Joel Spolsky
  Maybe nice to give it a try on both of your machines?


• Long Methods are Natural - Michael Feathers
  ' A good code base consists of a large number of small methods and dwindling number of larger ones. And, if that's the case, we shouldn't strive for the absence of long methods, we should strive to make them rare '