LINKBLOG for January 29, 2008

• Requirements: Knowledge and Understanding - Scott Sehlhorst
  ' But to truly write good requirements, you have to gain a level of understanding that surpasses knowledge '
  


• Chandler: No Version 1.0 After 7 Years - Can it Survive Post-Kapor? - Richard MacManus
  Chandler definitely looked promising some years ago. But after reading the book and even trying the 0.6 or 0.7 release I can tell you it is far from 1.0
  


• Come Work With Me And Other Great People - Phil Haack
  Care to take the blue pill?
  


• Trevor Howard on having passion for your profession - Reg Braithwaite
  ' In acting, as in love, there is no place for indifference. '
  


• Wanted: Software war stories for an O’Reilly book - Scott Berkun
  Have something to share regarding team dynamics with the rest of the world?
  


• Spare me the don’t wake up call - Sterling Camden
  hehe, getting up early is healthy :-)
  


• Security vs. Privacy - Bruce Schneier
  ... a false dichotomy


• Finding Untitled Page Titles - Steven Smith
  


• TFS 2005 to 2008 Upgrade Underway... - Greg Duncan
  Now I know why we're still waiting for our CD's. Really.


• Essential Graphic Design Tools for .NET Developers - AjaxNinja
  Not really graphically oriented, I at least use Paint.NET regularly, never found a situation where it couldn't help out in my needs


• So much for Optimization - Soon Hui
  Clear advice from Soon: if you don't intimately know the system under optimization, you're going to have a hard time making useful improvements
  ' If you don't know how to optimize your code, you can wander here and there, tweaking your code (...) '


• I've got the Iteration #1 Blues - Jeremy D. Miller -- The Shade Tree Developer
  ' Experience has taught me to be very, very pessimistic about how much recognizable business value gets created in Iteration #1 (...) '


• ASP.NET MVC Link collection - Simone Chiaretta
  ASP.NET all over the place here


• Code Gallery goes Live: New Site for Samples - Charlie Calvert
  Code gallery and the other Microsoft source repo's


• Console - Tomas Restrepo
  Cool cmd.exe replacement


• C# Enum Craziness: Sometimes What You Expect Isn’t The Case - Luke Foust
  Turns out enums are more complicated than I expected


• Don't Tell ... Ask - J.D. Meier
  Inspirational thought of the day, short and concise:
  ' Bottom line -- people don't like to be told what to do and we're wired to resist change '


• Standards and Innovation - Nick Malik
  ' When I opened my call for a Shared Global Integration Model, I expected some folks to say "we don't need that." What I didn't expect was the argument that standards are somehow a bad idea '


• To the new weblogs.asp.net bloggers - Frans Bouma
  A plea which hopefully has some effect. On the other hand, I think you can better pick out the blogs you like, not to be swarmed with an overwhelming amount of useless stuff, which you subsequently are forced to skim through


• Do you use "Presenter view" in PowerPoint - Daniel Moth
  


• Methods Are Not Just a Means of Reuse - Matt Blodgett
  The message being that methods also have their use for code that's called only once