LINKBLOG for February 18 , 2008

• 10 Tips on How to Setup Your Laptop before a Demo - Daniel Moth
  Some of them really worth checking out, e.g. the High DPI tip


• SharedView might be the remote-collaboration tool I was looking for - Roy Osherove
  More praise for SharedView, this time from outside HQ


• Visio to XAML Export - Now with an Installer - Greg Duncan
  If you're architect enough to be an active Visio user


• Microsoft releases Unity, an IoC library - Chris Brandsma
  For those who boldly try every new tool available
  ' Here is a bit of interesting news out of Microsoft. They have released their first IoC container named Unity '


• LINQ Books - Charlie Calvert
  A lot, including several that not even released yet


• Understanding IoC Container - Sean Feldman
  ' In a multi layered application architecture, loosely coupled code is (...) the basic which can either help the entire project progress, or drive it down the slope to the end '


• Did you know... You can add a solution to a solution - #153 - Sara Ford
  


• Sound of one man testing - Derik Whittaker
  ' I am a firm believer that someone practicing Agile/TDD can make a profound difference on a non-agile/non-testing (traditional, if you will) project. '


• A tale of Parallel.For in ParallelFX - Justin Etheredge
  


• Architecting LINQ To SQL Applications, part 5 - Ian Cooper
  


• (R) evolutionary changes - Peter van Ooijen
  Essay on the similarities and differences between biological and software evolution


• Data Caching Using Custom Attributes - Azam Sharp
  


• Amazon S3 Outage - Oren Eini
  Even Amazon has it's problems keeping all its services online on a 24/7 basis
  ' swamping the authentication services with costly authenticated request has overloaded the capacity of the authentication services and cause many account validation requests to fail '


• "The Case of the Unexplained..." - Mark Russinovich
  I've seen Mark live during a TechEd a couple years ago. He's one of those that is very capable of capturing big and small audiences the like during the timespan of a presentation via Matt Hinze


• Architect's Dilemma: Designing Up-Front? - Steven Devijver
  ' If your dependency graph between projects looks like a plate of spaghetti you know something's wrong '


• The Theory of One (or how to get work done) - Michael Silver
  Let’s take Joel’s appreciation for any work accomplished and add a simple a rule: Accomplish one thing, everyday


• Introducing User Stories - PowerpPoint Presentation - Kelly Waters
  


• Incremental code review (ICR) - Doyle
  As opposed to normal reviews (that is, if you do them at all of course)


• Yield Return is Evil :-(Sometimes) - Adam Alinauskas
  ' I came to the conclusion that although a contrived example is a great tool for learning a real world example is better suited to exhibit how you can fall prey to deferred execution in the wild '