LINKBLOG for February 12, 2008

• Has mailto outlived its usefulness? - Mike Hall
  ' So what does that mean for good ol’ mailto? Well, there won’t be an application defined to handle “mailto”, so when the user clicks on a mailto link nothing happens… and that’s never good. '


• Disinterest in technology - Oren Eini
  ' I think that I'll leave interpretation of those for the comments, but it looks to me like technology topics are growing very old, very fast '
  Oren's take on the .NET Rocks episodes from recent history


• Slow and controlled over fast and uncontrolled - Tim Stall
  


• TFS 2008 on Windows 2008 - Craig Bailey
  ' Seems to be working fine (according to Etienne), but with some manual steps required '


• Inheritance and Templates - Kathleen Dollard
  One of the most valuable things about templates written in .NET code of any style is the ability to use inheritance


• Did you know... You can use the Watch Window to quickly change a variable's value - #149 - Sara Ford
  


• Dynamic Languages on the CLR and JVM - Charles Humble
  Microsoft versus Sun language strategies


• Does Languages Really Matter? - Kaveh Shahbazian
  


• Agile for Executives - David Starr
  For those in need of management buy-in
  ' If your leadership is asking for a nice explanation of what this Agile stuff is all about, giving them this article may be a good move to start the discussion '


• Gmail Delivery Delays - Will a Reply from Google Ever Arrive? - Marshall Kirkpatrick
  ' As an increasing number of people choose to forward their email to and from Gmail, these delays present a real problem (...) '
  I use forward-to-GMail myself but this is exactly what's wrong with this model: introduction of a huge chain of dependencies


• Software Development Week in Review - Miguel Carrasco
  


• Miguel de Icaza and Geoff Norton on Mono - .NET Rocks!