LINKBLOG for February 26, 2008

• Parsing Sentences and Building Text Statistics in C# - salysle
  


• On Escalating Communication - Jeff Atwood
  ' Please don't make the same mistake I have. Understand the limitations of the communication medium you are using and know when to escalate to another, more appropriate one '


• Workflow still matters - David Hurtado
  Which asks the question ' ..is there any reason for not using Workflow Foundation? '


• I <3 CI Factory - Chris Bilson
  How to use tools like CI Factory, Team City and CruiseControl.NET


• Filenames Starting with a Dot - Tomas Restrepo
  Always found it weird why you can programmatically create these files, but not via Windows Explorer...


• VS 2008 and WPF - Rhonda Tipton
  I found that, if you're used to .NET 2.0, WPF follows a completely different logic when it comes to the graphical part. The whole Media timeline thing seems to look more like creating a Flash application


• How Hard Could It Be?: Inspired Misfires, Personal Development Article - Joel Spolsky
  ' The reason I love this story is that it's as stark an illustration as I can find that "seeming impossible" is practically a requirement for a truly great innovation 'via Joel Spolsky


• Tip: Easily Automating use of WaitCursor - Ben Watson
  Clever use of the using statement


• Windows PowerShell Quick Start - Peter Provost
  Channel 9 webcast


• String.Format Extension Method - Paul Stovell
  ' throw new Exception("{0} {1} {2}".F(a, b, c)); ' My take is that the 'F' does not really clarify things, but then again this extension stuff is quite new to me


• Amazon Kindle - Scott Hanselman
  Total geek stuff from Amazon, me is not geek enough probably: $400 for yet another device to read newspapers and blogs is a bit too much


• How To: Host the PowerShell Runtime - Mitch Denny
  Hosting Powershell from within your own application by way of the System.Management.Automation namespace


• Opening Adobe Illustrator (AI) files when you don't have Adobe Illustrator - Jon Galloway
  Cool!


• Video of Luke Hoban's In-Depth Look at C# 3.0 - Charlie Calvert
  


• Are .NET Developers the American Tourists of the Software Industry? - Russell Ball
  ' A little foreign culture is good for the programming soul. '


• Do SharePoint Developers Want a Developer Version of SharePoint? - Bil Simser
  If you get positive feelings just reading this question, then it's time to join in the comments on Bil's blog


• Certifications, Who Needs Them? - Bill Miller
  ' If you’re a hiring manager, you can continue to make the certificate a requirement, but know that if you do, you are losing out on hiring the real gem employees (...) '


• What makes some code confusing? - Jonathan Cogley
  ' It is difficult to say that the resulting code is *MUCH* better but I have no trouble reading the one liner ternary now. The human brain is a strange machine '
  via Alvin Ashcraft


• Another Smell: Duplicate functionality providers - Adam Goucher
  ' In this case of this product I noticed there are 4 different ORM systems being employed '