LINKBLOG for February 6, 2008

• Inside Vista SP1 File Copy Improvements - Mark Russinovich
  all about file I/O in Vista


• Tell Me Your Unit Testing Pains - Phil Haack
  Phil wants your input' Whether you’re a TDD fan or not, I think most of us can agree that unit testing your own code is a necessary practice, whether it is manually or automated '


• Standardization works with a limited, and rational, scope - Nick Malik
  ' A business capability is a description of the stable business functions (the things that must be done) in a way that allows the processes to change independently (processes describe how you do those things) '


• *** Stories, requirements, and language - Jim Bogard
  Really, even today we spend an hour discussing the difference between a feature and a requirement. These are things you can easily get into big fights about if you don't have the language straight between all project members


• Download All the .NET Reference Source Code at Once with Net Mass Downloader - John Robbins
  Just in case you're into inspecting Microsofts' deliverables


• No, you're crazy! (or, the problem with assuming that computer programmers have all that much in common) - Jon Galloway
  Opinion piece ' Five Non-Essential Phone Screen Questions Which Tell Me Nothing '


• Calculate Distance Between Geocodes in C# and JavaScript - Chris Pietschmann
  simple code sample


• Compiler warnings, the trash you forgot to take out - Derik Whittaker
  ' When you really stop to look at the warnings you will see that most of the time they are trash left over from development tasks of yesterday '


• How to Handle Null Values in Code - Basil Vandegriend
  


• Easy Windows PowerShell cmdlet development and debugging - Bart De Smet
  via Greg's Coo Thing of the Day


• Implementing the Observer Pattern - Huthaifa Afanah
  you can never understand patterns without implementing them in your real life scenario. Learn by doing


• Series of Articles on using VSTS - 'elandes'
  ' On MSDN, there are a series of articles to help explain how to use VSTS and TFS within a large organization. Called Global Bank: A Scenario for Visual Studio Team System 2008 '


• The 9 worst Microsoft products ever? - Jan Schreuder
  Most of these products I had not even heard of, so they *must* be bad :-) what are your can candidates? Me agrees with Jan that ME should be on the list


• A Visual for SharePoint Terminology - Brent Strange
  


• How to Measure Code Quality - Soon Hui
  A funny way, that is