LINKBLOG for February 21 , 2008

• How to Stop Checking E-mail on the Evenings and Weekends - Tim Ferriss
  Reading email more often leads to sending more email leads to receiving more leads to information overload


• The wrong way to do a shopping cart - Gojko Adzic
  ' Notice the “do not click Place Order more than once” message ' That's like paying double if you sign your credit card receipt twice


• Code inspections simplified - Andy Oram
  


• Spolsky: how programmers redefine their way around hard problems - Scott Rosenberg
  ' The hardest problems facing most programmers don’t involve communicating with the computer; they arise in the course of communicating with people — colleagues, customers, users '


• Versioning Issues With Abstract Base Classes and Interfaces
  On the complex technical trade-offs one has to make when producing framework software


• Why care about migrating classic ASP to .Net? - Tim Stall
  ' Seeing how the old technology solved hard problems will give you an appreciation for the new technology '
  On the other hand, a big downside here could be that you fail to see the good things a new framework gives


• \What do You Bring to a Meeting? - Follow Steph
  How to distinguish managers and programmers


• Understanding IoC Container - Part 2 - Sean Feldman
  


• Developer Faceoff: Scott Bellware vs. JP Boodhoo - Max Pool
  Two *very* different personalities, me would say
  ' 10. What is the secret of your success, expressed in one word?
  - Analysis
  - God '


• Why IT Managers are Hiring Based on Experience - Son Hui
  ' if on your resume you don't have the correct keywords, the HR people will simply just ignore you '


• TRULY Understanding ViewState, the comment index - Dave Read
  Since the advent of ASP.NET people have had trouble TRULY understanding ViewState, so articles like these are still needed


• OpenXML/ODF Translator Add-in for Office - Microsoft on SourceForge.net
  Together with giving an in-depth explanation of it's Office file formats this is Microsoft's strategy to re-open the war between the ODF and OOXML formats


• Security Vulnerability Research & Defense : The Kill-Bit FAQ: Part 1 of 3
  Official Microsoft explanation on the kill-bit


• 20 Things I Wish I Had Known When Starting Out in Life - Leo Babauta
  Leo wonders: I might have done things differently, if given the chance, but that would also take away some very positive experiences


• Is There Value In Code Uniformity? - Steve Rowe
  What do you think?


• Sharpen your Axe - Friday Reflections
  Clear message: ' Have you sharpened your ax lately? '


• The grails diaries #5: Do you need a software architect? - Diego Parrilla
  I didn't know GRails before (it an open source web application framework , but it doesn't really matter: the message is that there is still no way to completely automate real-life software development


• Richard Feynman, the Challenger Disaster, and Software Engineering - Gustavo Duarte
  Lessons we could have drawn in the past are still ignored at our peril


• Do try...catch blocks hurt runtime performance? - Programmer's Heaven
  Not to spoil things, but in case you're convinced that the answer is no: you're correct


• Custom Serialization – Part 1 - Niranjan Kumar
  level 100 tutorial


• Visual LINQ: Watch query expressions as they happen! - Jon Skeet: Coding Blog
  Directly see the effect of your LINQ expressions. Cool demo by the way, *do* check it out if you're new to XAML and WPF


• Dear Idiots - Alt.Net Pursefight!
  The Alt.Net sarcasm is roaring its ugly head again. We probably see enough in those posts to learn not to take part in the discussions themselves...


• The Weekly Source Code 15 - Duct Tape Edition - Scott Hanselman
  ' What can I say, if there's a freak somewhere that promises to tape two things together, I want to see it! ;) '