LINKBLOG for February 11, 2008

• What Your Dog Can Teach You About Building Teams - Max Pool
  Life is so simple:
  ' In the end, people will always digress into basic wildlife pack behavior. We only need to look at the common house dog (or their wolf ancestors) to view the different personality types and the best blend of teams '


• Did you know... You can use the keyboard to jump to various panes within the Output Window -#148 - Sara Ford
  


• The Semantic Gap - Jeffrey Snover
  some philosopical thought on Powershell and the world in general


• Where the Heck is My Focus? - Jeff Atwood
  ' What frustrates me is when web developers fail to pay attention to the most rudimentary of keyboard support in their designs '


• Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training Kit - Maurice de Beijer
  referal to Microsoft download


• C# 4, part 4: My manifesto and wishlist - Jon Skeet
  Long opionion piece on what should be in the next version


• Capturing the Screen Contents in .NET 2.0 - BlackWasp Software Development
  small tip, uses the GDI+ system


• New Folder in my feed reader: Computational Art - Simone Chiaretta
  I stopped at ASCII art ten years ago, but time continues also in creating esthetically appealing graphics by using algorithms


• Layering, the Level metric and the Discourse of Method - Patrick Smacchia
  useful for NDepend users


• Which Productivity Tricks Have You Adopted Lately? - Russell Ball
  You really could pick up something useful here, unless your Windows is already littered with light-weight todo / shortcut / launcher apps


• You need to blog. Now. - Chad Myers
  ' While that may be mostly true, what you're missing is that not everyone is hearing it! But there are still some gaping voids of content that aren't adequately covered '
  Even if *you* start blogging now, how to reach the masses that don't read blogs at all?


• I'll do it later - Mo Khan
  ' There is no error, the reason this test fails is because of something that C# 2.0 offered for free that very few people actually talk about, and that's deferred execution '


• From CI to Production, direct! - John Ferguson Smart
  ' (...) while Continuous Integration is widely used to automate the build process up until, say, deployment to an integration or test server, it can be taken much further '


• Using delegates - a simple sample - Kirill Osenkov
  If you look good, you can use delegates in situations you hadn't thought of before


• Why I Love being a Software Developer - Derik Whittaker
  ' IT Rocks. What other job can you learn something new EVERY day? '


• Signs on the Sand: Microsoft XSLT Profiler - Oleg Tkachenko
  Warning: you need the Visual Studio 2008 Team System profiler for this!


• Convert MySQL to MS Sql Server - Gath Adams
  Some automation for the lazy database-oriented among you


• A Programming puzzle for students - Des Traynor
  don't let your brains get rusty, do some exercise


• Archive The Paperless Web Worker - Mike Gunderloy
  ' My own daily workflow now includes running incoming paper mail through the ScanSnap and then through a shredder '
  And why not? Combined with a good backup strategy this is really a good idea