LINKBLOG for February 13 , 2008

• What will you do when it happens to you? - Omar Shahine
  ' Windows Live ID hijacked? Replace Windows Live ID with Google or Yahoo ID '
  Omar probably didn't mean this in the way I interpreted it at first :-)


• Use explicit casting instead of DataBinder.Eval - .NET Tip of The Day
  


• Interviewing at Microsoft - Ade Miller
  some extra links included on the interviewing process at Microsoft


• The Naive Approach to Hiring People - Reg Braithwaite
  and even more on the hiring process


• The Dramatic Password Reveal - Jeff Atwood
  ' I've come full circle. I now think the password reveal option should be available on all login dialogs '


• Code Access Security, LinkDemand and Effective Sandbox - Thottam R. Sriram
  Background article on some important topics around CAS


• Did you know... You can view numeric values in hexadecimal in your debug windows - #150 - Sara Ford
  


• Computer Measurement Group offers past papers to the public! - Rico Mariani
  If titles like 'A Methodology for Predicting the Scalability of Distributed Production Systems' attract you (warning: you have to register for free before you can download the PDF's)
  via The morning brew


• My VS2008 Article for QBS magazine - Daniel Moth
  Referal to PDF on the improvements in VS2008


• How Google got its logo - Greg Hughes
  If you always wanted to know how they got it, now you can find out


• Some Random Thoughts on Adopting an Agile SDLC - Carel Lotz
  


• Julie Lerman Blog - Dan Fernandez gets to interview Bill Gates
  " I can definitely relate to Dan's glee at learning that he would be interviewing Bill Gates for Channel 9 ' The Bill Gates Interview


• Immutability in C# Part Eleven: A working double-ended queue - Eric Lippert
  


• C# 3.0 Syntax Additions—Design Guidelines - Peter Ritchie
  An overview of the new language feature


• Send Email from your GMAIL account using ASP.Net and C# - Shabdar
  


• .Net Reflector - Ben Watson
  ' It was trivial to poke into the .Net assemblies and see what the SerialPort class was doing under the covers and then use the correct Win32 functionality in our app '
  Reflector can not be plugged enough...


• 20 Famous Software Disasters - DevTopics
  Lessons to be drawn from history, unfortunately we rather forget and repeat


• Code performance analysis in Visual Studio 2008 - Maarten Balliauw
  ' Visual Studio developer, did you know you have a great performance analysis (profiling) tool at your fingertips '


• Put Down the XmlNode and Step Away From the StringBuilder
  ' Slowly move your hand to the mouse and scroll down to read about the easiest way to write and read Xml in the .net framework '


• Agile PM Tools (Hosted) - Wayne Allen
  One should sometimes forget that the PM can also be serviced with a complete line of products


• Easy Programming for Multi-Core Processors - Alex Lehmberg
  ' Jibu is a library for .NET, C++, Java and Delphi that makes concurrent and parallel programming easy for experts and beginners alike '


• Mocks are a code smell - Greg Young
  Catchy title for a codebetter.com article, although not as controversial as one might think


• Programming Language Trends - Russell Ball
  ' I’ve been actively playing with Ruby and PHP and have been blog surfing for information on functional languages like Lisp and Erlang ' The best thing if you're mainly focusing on one language is just looking what others could offer more than your language


• Why Aspect Programming is Important and thus the pain on ASP.NET - William Yeung
  ' I think a reasonably well designed web framework could 'emulate' such feature [Ruby's mixin, ed] too, but ASP.NET's design somehow makes it very difficult '


• ASP.NET MVC Update - Phil Haack
  Phil shares the latest on ASP.NET/MVC


• First make it right. Then make it fast. - Jeffrey Palermo
  ' I've now come to the point where I realize that PDD (pain-driven development) is the real decision-maker. It's no longer worth my time to think about what concatenation method might be faster '


• Building an MVP Framework for .NET. Part 1: The Basics of MVC and MVP - Oleg Zhukov
  ' This article starts a series addressing the development of an MVP Framework under the .NET platform '


• How do you build your application? - Kyle Baley
  Kyle wonders whether to deploy in one mega-assembly or to brake up in smaller ones, and asks for your take on the matter


• CodeProject: A Network Sniffer in C#. Free source code and programming help
  ' (...) which can parse IP, TCP, UDP, and DNS packets '


• The first 2 hours of TDD are the most painful - Chad Myers
  ' TDD is not a solved problem, yet '
  Chad asks a lot of real-world questions on how *you* use TDD
  If, during the middle of testing on a story, you realize that your up-front design wasn't correct, do you stop and discuss with your pair right the


• Don't take encryption and hashing lightly - Chad Myers
  ' A word to the wise for framework and product-shipping designers: Don't take encryption, signing, and hashing lightly ' A fair warning from Chad, as even implementing RijndaelManaged can get you into unexpected waters