LINKBLOG for January 28, 2008

• Refactoring Isn’t A Design Methodology - Bill Miller
  ' There is a cost — maybe even significant cost - associated with refactoring. It steals time away from the schedule that can better be spent developing new features '


• Simplicity And Quick To Use - Abhijit Nadgouda
  If you are trying out tools that will be part of your productivity, do not judge only by how quickly you can start using them


• .NET Framework 3.5 deployment guides have been published on MSDN - Aaron Stebner
  


• Dynamic Creation Of Assemblies/Apps - Sacha Barber
  by using CodeDom and CompilerServices


• Interview question: Tell me about your mother - Kyle Baley
  What's with all the interview post these days, is it time to jump the bandwagon?


• HashSet versus Dictionary Cage Match - Justin Etheredge
  ' So, looking at this you might think that the choice between Dictionary and HashSet is easy if you are dealing with large sets, and you'd be wrong. :-) '
  It's funny how often we just jump to conclusions, fortunately Justin didn't


• Best tool for the job - Jimmy Bogard
  ' What I tend to do is opt for the more complex architecture first, even though the customer explicitly doesn't need it '


• Did you know... You can display any toolbar at any time - #138 - Sara Ford
  


• Why Office Gurus Are Bad (And The Buses Who Hit Them) - Max Pool
  ' Allowing members to specialize can be dangerous for a number of reasons '


• Time Management - Scott Watermasysk
  ' (...) the number one thing you can do to effectively manage your time is be very selective about what you choose to do '
  I really would like having 48 hours in a day, but there aren't. This means we *have* to think carefully and ruthlessly weed out the cruft


• Whitebox vs Blackbox testing (location of unit tests) - Derik Whittaker
  I never really considered putting tests right in a project, it would just create a mess would it? As it seems however, lots of people presumably think otherwise (e.g. they put tests ritght into the project itself as a form of whiteboard testing...


• Modifying the home in PowerShell - Tomas Restrepo
  via Harry Pierson


• Two Days Left to Snag a Free R# 4.0 License - Russell Ball
  If you have something to say, you could win a Resharper 4.0 licence when it comes out. Last time I checked it was worth $349!
  


• Source Control and Continuous Integration On The Cheap - Rob Conery
  Sometimes you just need a quick and lightweight solution without all the overhead...


• Crowdsourcing in Action: The Library of Congress Photos on Flickr - Oleg Tkachenko
  Nice idea: library makes photo's available for free on Flickr hoping people will start tagging them...


• Immutability and inheritance - Jon Skeet
  Jon discusses implementation of a Range<T> class. Some framework 3.5 ahead


• HOW TO: Read From a Locked Text File - Anatoly Lubarsky
  Useful small tip via Jason Haley


• CLR Fun Stuff: How is my C# code converted into machine instructions? - Shafqat Ahmed
  


• Blogger Backup v1.0.9.22 Released - Greg Duncan
  Me happily uses these opensourced little tools that do some small but very useful thing. How cool that we're with so many that everything has already been done once, so you don't have to!