LINKBLOG for February 8, 2008

• MSBuild By Example - Greg Duncan
  ' This is the MSBuild Chapter from Deploying .NET Applications, Apress in wiki form '


• Understanding Innovation - Cecilia Weckstrom
  ' A person’s creative expression is the visible face of imagination at work '


• Book Review: C# 3.0 Design Patterns - Jim Holmes
  ' This is a good rehash of the Gang of Four patterns, reworked in C# 3.0 '


• Mujahideen Secrets 2 - Bruce Scheier
  There is a big fuss around about Al Qaeda creating their own encryption tool, but ' (...) the NSA probably breaks most of the stuff by guessing the password, anyway '


• XML: Done like a well-cooked steak - Don Box
  ' Kudos to Bray et al for building something to last '


• Let’s Talk Templates - Leaning Into Windows
  " What if you could combine the simplicity of CodeSmith [a code generation tool, ed.] with the power of XSLT? '


• C# 4, part 3: Ideas from Microsoft - Jon Skeet
  And also C# 4, part 2: Ideas from other community members


• Software Is Hardwork: Source Control Compelling Replacements - D. P. Bullington
  ' TFS: a compelling replacement for your cash reserves '
  So a post mentining TFS *can* be humorous ;-)


• The Silverlight Strategy, this will be a great movie - Software Development in the Real World
  ' Why Microsoft Will Win, and Dominate the Web '
  I have too less experience with Silverlight to comment...


• Visual Studio 2008 Performance Issues - Chad Green
  Chad's issues are mostly ASP.NET related


• Secured Subversion on Windows - Oren Eini
  Oren wanted to install Subversion on his Windows box, without Apache, and spending a probably insame amount of time to get there :-)


• Most Useful VS Feature No One Knows About - Jon von Gillern
  ' This [a VS setting, ed.] allows you to inspect your call stack and interrogate your variables to determine the state of your application when the exception occurred '


• Visual Studio Programmer Themes Gallery - Scott Hanselman
  Scott shows lots of screens of how your IDE *could* look like, some of them really cool. Feeling attracted to the black ones, if only for the amount of comments this will raise from the co-workers


• Presentation tips - Kyle Baley - The Coding Hillbilly
  ' 5. Answer questions when you can but move things along '
  Good one, as it is all to easy to get distracted into a dispute drifting somewhere else than you intended


• 25 most influential people at Microsoft - Ade Miller
  Interesting list! Wasn't aware of most people on it


• Thought game: What if SQL had a type called 'Operator' - Leon Bambrick
  nice discussion unrolling over here. But, you know, SQL discussions always have that fine opportunity to end up in a big fight 'pro' and 'contra' so keep it professional :-)


• Eli Lilly E-Mail to New York Times - Katherine Eban
  oops
  via Computable (Dutch site)


• .NET Framework 3.5 Beta Exams Extended - Caio Proiete
  Free .NET exams, via Al Pascual (haven't tried them, no guarantees


• A Naive Bayesian Spam Filter for C# - Jason Kester
  nice idea
  ' When a new blog entry is saved, we run it through the SpamFilter and set an IsSpam bit on the blog entry as necessary '


• Using Extension Methods in .net 2.0 - Justin Etheredge
  ' Well, I was 100% correct about the automatic properties, but I was only 99% correct about the extension methods. :-) '


• Which Are The Good Builds - Chris Bilson
  ' He _should_ be able to just grab a good build. Why would we check in a bad build? '


• JFKBits: Language Politics and Technology Decisions
  ' When someone tells you "you need better tools: try Lisp", ask "what about Lisp do you think would help me?" If they start listing reasons without first trying to understand who you are, may I say there's a problem
  via Reg Braithwaite
  Insightful, replace Lispwith .NET


• Are You Too Old To Become An Entrepreneur? - Jarkko Laine
  Jarkko thinks not


• Extending Your Wireless Network With Better Antennas - Jeff Atwood
  My linksys wireless router always gives me crappy signals on one machine, but not on the other. Maybe the other can be helped by eating some Pringles...