LINKBLOG for January 3, 2008

• Best of Codesqueeze 2007 - Max Pool
  


• Test Smarter, Not Harder - Part 3 - Scott Sehlhorst
  


• My DI Failure
  Never use a pattern just for kicks ' Busted: (...) Having a pattern looking for a problem to solve is like having a hammer looking for something to fix—both methods are hit or miss '


• Questions to Consider in the Coming Privacy Wars - Marshall Kirkpatrick
  Thought-provoking article


• Questions every .NET developer should be able to answer - Eric Wise
  for your interview question set (if you happen to do interviews)


• Q/A session with the guy "In Charge" of Microsoft's Web Development Group - Robert Shelton
  If you want to know answers to questions like ' What happen to the Microsoft Acropolis Framework? ' check out this article


• Did you know... You can change the RSS feed on the Visual Studio Start Page? - Sara Ford
  Nice tip. Set it to "http://feeds.feedburner.com/ArjansWorld" and find fresh info every day :-)


• TFS Power Tools for TFS 2008 - Pieter Gheysens
  


• Things to think about if you want to be a consultant - Derik Whittaker
  Good questions to ask before joining a consultancy firm


• The Declarative Factory Pattern - Andreas Heil
  ' This pattern is much like a Abstract Factory, however, there is no need to create a concrete Factory class '


• Alt.Net Pursefight!: This is why we can't have anything nice!
  Ahh... Alt.Net Pursefight is back from holidays and sharing his/her opionion on altnetconf alt.net cli_dev


• C# vNext: Take 2 - Jeremy D. Miller
  Noooo... Me don't even want to *think* about version 4.0 already


• Foundations of Programming - Part 6 - NHibernate - Karl Seguin
  


• Architects: Back to the future? - Ian Cooper
  ' An interesting aspect of this is that our use of the term architect comes from the construction industry, where a formalized program of training exists. But it was not always so '


• ClipSpy+ - Mike Hankey
  ' A utility to uncover the mysteries of the Clipboard '


• Net Spy: Your Network Spy - Abhijit Jana
  For those of us who are either paranoid, control freak or both


• A perfect C# string enumerator - Muaddubby
  ' An excellent and easy way to implement string enumerators in C# '


• Fun with Generics - Shafqat Ahmed
  ' Using constraints to limit Generics applicability using the 'where' keyword. Free source code and programming articles '


• .NET and J2EE interoperability for .Net Developers - Amer Chaudhry
  Interop: unless you're an enterprise developer you might be so lucky as to not know how to use it
  And here ends the Codeproject backlog


• Community Convergence XXXVIII - Charlie Calvert
  Once again a lot of tech stuff from the Microsoft C# Team