LINKBLOG for February 25, 2008

• Replace Enum With Flyweights - Mo Khan
  ' (...) in an OO language, I feel dirty when I see enums. The argument of using it for bitwise operations and the Flags attribute is weak. Create a composite! '


• TDD Considered Harmful? - Jacob Proffitt
  Catchy title...


• Your Brain Is In 10 Kinds of Trouble - Leon Bambrick
  You wonder how we information worker still manage to sit behind our desks every day, instead of lying on the ground salivating, screaming and rolling our eyes
  (Btw, are you a geek if you inspect Leon's sample app in Reflector (provided in his comments, because you worry he might be silently installing trojans behind your back [he didn't] )


• Reviewing Unity - Oren Eini
  Review of the the new Unity DI container from the P&P group


• Lessons Learned from the Most Successful Innovators - J.D. Meier
  Study; the conclusion being the immortal ' There's No Silver Bullet '


• .NET 3.5 Brings BREAKING Changes to ThreadPool - Michael C. Kennedy
  Sample code included to replay the issue


• XmlDocument fluent interface - Mark S. Rasmussen
  


• Can a worm do good? - Mike Hall
  I'd like to add a nice comparison with the movie I Am Legend if you've seen it you know that sometimes bad things (viruses) obfuscated as good can turn against you, in a catastrophical way


• Five steps to enlightened expectations for managing your workload - Chip Camden
  It's funny how we need to be reminded of these things time and time again
  via Reg Braithwaite


• Firefox Tip: Get Spell Checking on All Form Fields - Matt Blodgett
  For all you Firefox users: way cool tip, just do yourselves a favor


• How do you structure your project -- details - Igloo Coder
  VS project == assembly, but it doesn't *have* to be that way


• I Tried to Love You TFS 2008, But You Wouldn't Let Me - Dave Donaldson
  ' (...) at some point you have to cut your losses, and so I did. I installed and configured Subversion using VisualSVN Server and had a source code repository in about 2 minutes '
  Oops. TFS2008 finally runs here with most (not all!) problems solved


• From CRUD to Domain-Driven Fluency - Udi Dahan
  ' I got a question about how to stay away from CRUD based service interfaces when the logic itself is like that, and I’ve found that this shift in thinking really needs more examples, so I’ve decided to put this out there '


• An Effective .NET Interview
  Nice take on interviews ' Call the candidate prior to setting up an interview. Keep the conversation non-technical! (...) If you don't feel good about those two things there is no reason to move on with the process '


• My castRoll - A list of the Webcasts on my Zune - Greg Duncan
  If you find yourself spending a lot of time in your car, on bicycle - yeah, I'm Dutch :-) - or walking every day, podcasts might be an easy way to gain some knowledge (or just listen to a bunch of geeks talking on the latest software bling-bling


• Share Everything... - Jesse Liberty
  Sharing is so much easier these days, the big question probably is not *how* to share but *how much* you share with the world


• Enterprise Architecture: Earning our keep - Nick Malik
  Nick poses an interesting question for enterprise architects: just what is your added value anyway?


• Into the Belly of the Whale... - Jeremy Jarrell
  VS2005>VS2008 migration woes