LINKBLOG for February 17 , 2008

• .NET to C++ Bridge - Sasha Goldshtein
  Article explaining the different ways the bridge between managed and unmanaged can be crossed (P/Invoke, COM interop, wrappers etc.)


• Eliminating obscure tests - Jim Bogard
  ' One of the purported benefits of unit tests and TDD in general is unit tests doubling as living documentation. Unit tests are documentation in the form of executable client code demonstrating small units of behavior '


• Erik Meijer on C# 3.0 and LINQ - InfoQ
  Podcast


• Does Your Code Pass The Turkey Test? - Jeff Moser
  ' "The Turkey Test" poses a very simple question, but yet is full of surprises for guys like me who didn't realize all the little details. '


• Determine number of steps in sorting algorithms - A. Raees
  


• Knowing when to ask for help - Microsoft SharedView - Scott Hanselman
  Scott discovers SharedView
  ' I've become REALLY good at remote tools since I've been doing this remote thing (even before). I've used NetMeeting, Remote Assistance, GoToMeeting, VNC, CoPilot.com, LiveMeeting, Hamachi and a dozen things in-between '


• Introducing the "Double Iron Triangle" of Enterprise Architecture - Nick Mailk
  ' I use two triangles to illustrate the "spectrum of variance" that exists along each of three axes. From each of the three viewpoints, there is a difference between "core" and "supporting" models '