LINKBLOG for February 27, 2008

• Dependency Problem - Input Desired - Scott Reynolds
  


• VON# - Quick and Dirty Memory Utility Methods
  Neat way to get the total memory size for objects of all sizes


• The Diminishing Return on Code Uniformity
  ' I have see religious wars break out over stupid standards such as:
  * { on new line or same line
  * _ or m_ in front of private variables '


• Software Quality and the QA Engineer Team - D. P. Bullington
  ' A good QA team encompasses the following basic traits '


• Did you know... You can create temp or "throw away" projects - #158 - Sara Ford
  Or you 'just' grab Snippet Compiler which makes this process even easier...


• Be Careful of Your Passion - David Starr
  ' there is a degree of professionalism needed at all levels. Let’s care about the system as a whole and be good stewards to the craft, not just the shiny bits '


• Adobe AIR vs Microsoft Silverlight: A developer's perspective - ImpressionSoft
  


• MSDN Reader!! A Must Have Application! - Aneef Fashir
  ' The MSDN Reader allows you to browse through MSDN Magazine articles like never before '


• Wiki as Text Adventure Game - Leon Bambrick
  ' Here's my current idea: write a wiki-style site where contributors don't just write webpages, they construct text adventure games '


• XML Pathfinder – A C# Utility - salysle
  ' This article discusses the construction of a simple utility that may be used to locate and evaluate paths within an XML document, and to test queries against those paths '


• .NET 3.5 Brings Major (Undocumented) Changes to ThreadPool - Michael C. Kennedy
  


• Your own Lolcats widget (I Can Has Cheezburger?) - Gath Adams
  Not for everyone...


• Sandcastle and API Documentation - Brian Peek
  A simple introduction to create your own documentation with Sandcastle
  via Christopher Steen


• Real World Development is still very much .NET 2.0. - Nathan J Pledger
  


• Using List Generic in your data layer - Wilson Kutegeka
  


• Visualising the Mandelbrot set with LINQ - yet again - Jon Skeet
  


• Cacheman - a fast distributed hashtable for Windows - Sriram Krishnan
  Complex but interesting stuff
  via Chris Alcock


• Try/Catch Blocks Can Hurt Performance Significantly - Chinh Do
  ... when put in a repeating block of code


• Windows parallel programming datasheet - Microsoft.com
  PDF explaining the concept behind modern parallel programming according to Microsoft


• The Weekly Source Code 17 - ASP.NET MVC Community Code Edition - Scott Hanselman
  


• Application Portfolio Management - Mike Walker
  On EA and APM, lots of referals if you like