LINKBLOG for February 1, 2008

• Hashtable vs. List - Kai Strempel
  


• Verifying that exceptions we throw are actually useful - Alex Ruiz
  
  


• DeliveryFocus.net - Developers are not hot-swappable - Simon Munro
  ' Over time, after writing his own code, debugging others' code, (...) the developer starts to gradually build his own internal index of where to find things '


• Enjoy Your Life: Separate Work From Home! | Cultivate Greatness Personal Development, Leadership Training & Life Hacks
  ' (...) there’s a difference between focusing on your job, and placing the right amount of focus on your job '


• Bad Usability Calendar 2008 - Scott Sehlhorst
  


• The Digg Heat Map - John Graham-Cumming
  I'm always strangely attracted to statistics (a left-over from my previous career)


• What a marvelous predicament! - Peter Miller
  On the seminal "The Mythical Man Month"
  ' The apparent timelessness of Brooks' work is surely due to its focus on managing and improving the software development life cycle, not on specific language techniques '


• TripIt is awesome - Joel on Software
  ' Why should you need to register? (...) Why should you parse the schedule data? Everyone gets email from the same 4 online travel agencies '


• C# and .NET Secrets - R Stropek
  quickly test your basic .NET/C# knowledge


• History of the C# Sort - J.D. Conley
  from 60 line in C# 1.0 to 1(!) in C# 3.0


• Expression Tree Basics - Charlie Calvert
  ' An expression tree provides a method of translating executable code into data. This can be very valuable if you want to modify or transform code before executing it '
  Guess this is not clear for everyone, so take a look and learn new stuff


• Paying it Forward, geek style - Andrew Schwarm
  via Christopher Steen


• StickyNotes for VS2008 - Greg Duncan
  ' (...) a Visual Studio package that provides sticky notes capabilities to project and project items inside Visual Studio 2008 '


• Microsoft wants to purchase Yahoo - BBC news (and everywhere else)
  major news, with huge impact if they succeed


• Need to print from a x64 machine? Can you wait 60 seconds? - Carlo Cardella
  Weird and unexpected things can happen when going to a 64-bit platform


• TDD or POUT - Jacob Proffitt
  ' So here’s my request for those of you who are using and enjoying TDD who want to invite us all to partake of its superior benefits: please couch your arguments in the assumption that I am already POUTing '


• Exposure - Expenses to Assets - Rob Teixeira
  ' And here's where I encourage managers to allow their developers to surf the web, be active in tech forums, contribute to a collaborative project, blog, and otherwise get the type of outside exposure they can only get online *on company time* '


• Beta Release of Mini SQL Query - Paul Kohler
  Release of lightweight query tool, screenshots look promising