LINKBLOG for February 4, 2008

• Are pre-defined release dates bad for Quality? - Adam Goucher
  


• Hosting Experience - Steven Smith
  Some concrete advice, name-calling included


• Did you know... You can use Ctrl+F4 to close the current document opened in the editor - #143 - Sara Ford
  


• How to: 101 LINQ Samples for C# - Robert Shelton
  


• Typemock Isolator 4.2 Beta released with cool new features (Previously Typemock.NET) - Roy Osherove
  


• Breaking on exceptions reveals the ugly truth of your application - Derik Whittaker
  ' Setup your IDE to break on all thrown exceptions '


• Bank Logins and Twenty Questions - Rick Strahl
  ' You have one of those annoying banking sites that ask dumb ass questions just so you can log on? '


• Close Those Loopholes: Stress-Test those Stored Procedures - Alex Kuznetsov
  ' This is done by emulating real life concurrency in a test harness written in C# using NUnit '


• Did You Know That... The Code Behind is Just... Code? - Jesse Liberty
  


• The Quest For Perfect Proportions In Your Software - Max Pool
  The .NET world is on a philisophical spree today
  ' what would the Truvian Man or Parthenon look like if it were a MVC application stack? '


• Stretching Out... - Jeremy Jarrell
  leaving your comfort zone is often the moment you start to learn ' few would argue that the lessons learned from a working in a hard core functional language, such as Lisp, could not be applied at some level to more OO leaning languages, like C++ '


• [OT] Where Do Automatic Properties go in your class file? - Derik Whittaker
  As often the case, comments on the post show a lot of insight:
  ' Umm, wherever R# puts them when I hit Ctrl-Alt-Shift + F. :D '


• How do I know?: Descartes' Rationalism versus Hume's Empiricism - Jeremy D. Miller
  The philospher's corner
  ' One of the things that keeps software development from being a straightforward science is that our "laws of physics" are changing rapidly '


• Versioning Databases – Views, Stored Procedures, and the Like- K. Scott Allen
  Scott continues his series on versioning your databases:
  ' If you need to go back in time to see what the database looked like on July 20, 2007, or in build 1.58 of the application, you can do that with this strategy, too '


• Use the System to Educate - J.D. Meier
  Depending on the circumstances you have different options to have others educate the people around you; for example:
  ' Use customers to educate your product teams (argue the customer data) '


• Out Loud (This isn't about slides) - Rands In Repose
  Extensive advice for your upcoming presentation ' You still haven’t read it out loud, have you? '


• High Performance Multi-Threaded LRU Cache - Brian Agnes
  ' (...) LRUCache attempts to provide fast, reliable access to recently used data in a multithreaded environment '