LINKBLOG for February 28, 2008

• C# Algorithms Book Review - Julian M Bucknall
  


• Reality-Driven Development - Gustavo Duarte
  Philospohy, Agile principles and John Locke


• The Seven Demands of Leadership- Cultivate Greatness
  Inspiration for leaders


• No surprise here - offshoring losing popularity - Frank Kelly
  ' More than ever these experiences taught me that keeping development teams close together (...) helps get to success quickly '


• Ask A Good Product Manager - Scott Sehlhorst
  Interview series with Q&A for product managers


• Judging You By Your Tools - Abhijit Nadgouda
  ' (...) assuming a programmer’s practice and expertise by looking at his/her tools is a blunder '


• What made me cry: Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope - Robert Scoble
  So this is what made Robert cry


• So, you think you know Regex-fu? - Reg Braithwaite
  If you answer yes to that question, then definitely go to the challenge Reg points to


• The Inline SQL application - Six Months Later - Paul Stovell
  


• Parsing custom dates using ParseExact - Peter van Ooijen
  ' Far easier to use is the ParseExact method which takes a custom format as parameter '


• To close or not to close, that is the question - Justin Etheredge
  ' I see no problem with giving developers powerful tools with which they can wreak havoc, but why would you want to litter your object with public methods that may not be needed '


• Injected objects should not be disposed be the class that receives the instance - Ramon Smits
  


• The managed MMC 3.0 snap-in cookbook - Bart de Smet
  


• Creating objects - Perf implications - Oren Eini
  ' Now, what does this long and arcane post tells us?
  Creating instances, no matter how many, is really cheap '


• TFS Performance & Excel 2007 Heat Map - Grant Holliday
  Use Excel 2007 to answer these questions:
  ' - Is TFS slow today compared to yesterday or last week?
  - Is the current hardware up to the job? '


• Private builds (Gated Checkins) with Team Foundation Server - Roy Osherove
  Roy shares a cool TFS tip


• TestDriven.NET keyboard shortcut - Jimmy Bogard
  


• Douchebaggery - Jeff Atwood
  Indeed DHH even thinks that *all* Windows developers already have gotten irrelevant' David Heinemeier Hansson has a problem with Windows as a programming platform '


• Agile For Customers - Steven Smith
  ' the truth is, agile development (...) does require programmers to do things they don't necessarily enjoy (...), but the difference is that the things being done have value even to the one writing them '


• News: Microsoft Launches Key 2008 Products in Los Angeles - Becky Nagel
  OK, this must be linked from somewhere...


• 12 Essential Free Tools for .NET Developers - Boyan Kostadinov
  Indeed lots of must have tools mentioned here


• Building trees from lists in .NET - Daniel Flower
  ' An interface to simplify creating trees from lists of database rows or objects '