LINKBLOG for February 23 , 2008

• Narrowing the Semantic Gap - Robert W. Anderson
  


• Technical Transformational Leadership - Miguel Carrasco
  ' Being a Technical Transformation Leader means spending 4 to 6 hours a day, every day, after work hours, keeping up to speed with the latest blogs, learning the latest technologies, trying out the latest API's, downloading the latest frameworks and samples '
  Really inspriational post, don't miss it!


• On Hiring a Brainy Developer... - Jay Kimble
  Hire based on your needs


• The Complete List of XAML Tools - Miguel Carrasco
  And it's a huge list


• On Software Factories - Jan van Ryswyk
  ' If you don't know the patterns underneath a certain framework or tool, then please, don't use it! '


• LINQ to Everything - LINQ to XSD adds more LINQiness - Scott Hanselman
  Scott goes LINQ'ie


• Did you know... You can use Solution Folders to hide projects? - #157 - Sara Ford
  


• Ad hoc Unit Tests with Snippet Compiler - Roy Osherove
  


• Inversion of control, part two - Nick Malik
  


• How "View Source" Broke the Web - Dare Obasanjo
  


• VB6 Migrations: Strategies, Best Practices and Options - Carel Lotz
  For those still struggling with VB6


• C# .Net Gmail Tools - quamtar
  small library


• Fibonacci Numbers, Recursion, And Terrible Examples - Dennis Forbes
  Dennis has some issues with Scott H's recent comparison of a Fibonacci algorithm implemented in C# 3.0 vs. C# 2.0


• Discovering Empty Try/Catch Blocks - Christopher Bennage
  Put Regexes to good use in Visual Studio's Ctrl-F


• Some Other Assertions in VS Unit - David Starr
  ' Folks are often unaware of a some classes within the Visual Studio unit testing framework that make writing unit tests a bit easier '


• Tools for Digging Deeper Into .NET - Jeremy Kuhne
  Some debugging and profiling tools


• VTD-XML: XML Processing for the Future (Part I) - Jimmy Zhang
  VTD: Virtual Token Descriptor


• Iterators, LINQ deferred execution and prime numbers computation - Patrick Smacchia
  Some code samples to help you understand LINQ features better


• How do you build your application -- details - Igloo Coder
  


• SQL is the assembly language of the modern world - Chad Myers
  ' Our goal should be to get out of the SQL crafting business and get back into the data access business '


• Abstract Base Classes Have Versioning Problems Too - Phil Haack
  


• 10 things you should know about virtualization - Debra Littlejohn Shinder
  Some real good tips here in this TechRepublic article: this buzzwords has different meanings to different people, there might be licensing issues involved in using virtualization etc.


• How to view code that is covered by the IntelliSense pop-up - .NET Tip of The Day
  


• Version numbers in a compiled assembly - Carlo
  


• Code Isn't Beautiful - Jeff Atwood
  Me partially agrees here. I am halfway in the book, some chapters really give a nice explanation on why the authors finds their code beautiful, in other chapters the rationale behind it remains vague


• Automated UI Testing with Project White - Fear and Loathing
  Free testing framework available from Codeplex
  ' The White library is nice and simple. All you really need to do is add in the Core.dll from White and your unit test framework and write some tests '


• Know Your Friends Well, Know Your Enemies Better - Sean Feldman
  I which we once again see the use of Reflector


• First Look at Silverlight 2 - Scott Guthrie
  Scott showing the new features, including screenshots


• Lest We Remember: Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys - Center for Information Technology Policy
  Attack on BitLocker, FileVault, dm-crypt, and TrueCrypt by reading data live from the RAM (including video)
  via Dutch security site


• Why Google Apps is a Serious Threat to Microsoft Office - Bernard Lunn
  Just to put the Microsoft openness a bit in perspective: doing nothing is no option


• TFS Top Tip Archives - Martin Woodward
  Useful category on Martin Woodward's blog, if you work with TFS and are in need of a tip sometimes


• A Fool’s Bargain: Building Software for Free (or, An Idea Ain’t Worth Squat) - Rob Walling
  Rob shares an interesting email correspondence he had with this guy looking for a software developer to build his great killer app, without having thought of the marketing strategy behind it


• Microsoft Makes Strategic Changes in Technology and Business Practices to Expand Interoperabilit
  Microsofts PR machine continues to buzz on the topics of opensource and standards. Via Joel comes the latest. Let's see how much this means in reality