LINKBLOG for January 9, 2008

• The Weekly Source Code 12 - Back in Black Edition - Scott Hanselman
  Scott has done his duty with the diapers and is diving into WPF this week


• Authorization vs. Business Logic - Keith Brown
  ' (...) where does the "authorization" end and the "business logic" in your method begin? '


• Did you know... You can copy a file's full path from the File Tab Channel? - Sara Ford
  


• Use Collection Instead of List for Public API - Dave Donaldson
  Good advice here, you can use a tool like FxCop, but it gets worth a lot more if you try to really understand it


• Are Developers Secret Santas Of The Information Age?
  Max wonders why we're so easy in sharing our knowledge
  ' So what makes developers uniquely give their knowledge and time away? Do we under estimate what our knowledge and time is worth? '


• Check This Out (Simple Reflection.Emit Stuff) - David Vidmar
  Ahh, Opcodes... reminds me of Beautiful Code, the book that contains a piece by Charles Petzold, where he goes out of his mind to optimze a complete method into opcodes (and ends up with code that is 4 times faster)


• Windows Forms Globalization - Aaron Lerch
  Threading gives an interesting twitch to Globalization that can bite you, at least if you don't realise this


• How to check email works with no SMTP - .NET Tip of The Day
  


• 51 Core Abilities of Successful Software - Leon Bambrick
  humor from down-under


• Oh, that's where RUN went in Vista - Julie Lerman
  ' (...) I knew where the "Command Prompt" was in Vista, so I never bothered looking for the Run option '


• Web development toolbelt - Mike Hall
  


• Improving Your Feed Reading - J.D. Meier
  Covered pretty much anythign over here. Only thing is I refuse to start using more than one feed reader (e.g. aideRSS to handle high-volume sites). That's the moment thing get too confusing for this simple soul


• SVN and proxy servers - Jimmy Bogard
  Another reminder to finally set up SVN on my 'real' machine and not only on an image where it works only half of the time, and from where it's impossible to check something out when you want to...