LINKBLOG for February 14 , 2008

• Release Day - Paul Stovell
  comic


• I'm Proud Not To Understand has_many :through - Giles Bowkett
  ' The moral here is that if something seems boring, skip it. Trust your intuition. It's there for a reason '
  via Matt Blodgett


• Runtime vs. Design/Compile Time - Kathleen Dollard
  ' at the core, the technique for expressing metadata into a working application is not half as important as metadata at the core of the application, however its expressed '


• Want the Software Quality Attributes of a service? -- ask the customer! - Nick Malik
  ' Nilesh starts blogging, and his first post is of such high quality that I have to rave about it here '


• Nearly a blogging trifecta - Chris Brandsma
  


• In-House Dev Anti-pattern: Environmental Certainty - Matt Hinze
  ' In-house developers (...) have a comfortable technical environment. We have our data sources, our common web services, a monolith HR system, and these things never change.
  Right? Never? .. '


• Take it Back! 100 Tips to Defeat Content Thieves - Jessica Hupp
  Wow, Jessica has done an amazing job in summarizing lots of resources
  via Craig Bailey


• Getting over the TDD hump - Jimmy Bogard
  ' We would have seriously crashed and burned if we tried to introduce ourselves to TDD against our existing legacy codebase '
  The idea being not to start converting your current codebase, but by introducing TDD but by bit in the process


• Resolve References In 2 Key Strokes - Chris Bilson
  


• LINQ Farm Seed: Using the Expression Tree Visualizer - Charlie Calvert
  


• The Paperless Home - Charles Petzold
  ' "A room without books is like a body without a soul" (Cicero) '


• Infrastructure Ignorance - Oren Eini
  ' There should be a lot more weight for the actual application code than the infrastructure code, and only at well defined locations will you have domain services call down to the infrastructure '


• LOLCode: 2 1337 4 u n00bs - Alex Thissen
  If LOLCODE is new for you, this is a clear explanation


• Valentine’s Day, Nerd Style! - Aaron Lerch
  Alright, one Valentine link, 'cause this one is both funny and geeky


• How to Avoid Embarrassing Build Errors - Adam Alinauskas
  ' (...) new feature in ReSharper 3.1 called Solution Wide Analysis '