LINKBLOG for February 9, 2008

• Use Case Management is a Tough Balancing Act - Scott Sehlhorst
  ' Learning how to write use cases can be tough, but it is simple compared to the balancing act of determining which use cases to write and how to manage the expectations of all the stakeholders that are involved '


• The Importance of Writing Your Blog Posts Ahead of Time - Follow Steph
  


• OOP and FOOP - Kaveh Shahbazian
  OOP in pictures


• Code Quality - Why Maintenance And Risk Management Are So Important to Developers - Rainer Eschen
  ' I program for my team members not for myself. The most important part for me here is maintenance '


• 7 more tips to be a happier coder and a challenge - xhtml-css
  ' (...) you probably feel sometimes bored and, well… useless. You are a coder, you feel the real power we all share and are proud of, that ability to create things starting from a dream, but man! How vain you feel sometimes! '


• Turning a Linksys WRT54GL Router Into a VPN Server - R.J. Dudley
  


• Visual Studio Context Menu - The Himalayas of Menus - Ben Scheirman
  VS madness


• If you want to pass, cheat. If you want to learn, research - Reg Braithwaite
  if you want to actually learn more about what you’re using, the next time you need to look something up, don’t go to the cheat sheet, Don’t Google it


• Years of Experience Does Matter - Scott Mitchell
  ' (...) to say that years of experience doesn't matter one iota is lunacy '
  Scott doesn't totally agree with Jeff's piece on theyears of experience myth


• PowerShell Editors and Other Not-So-Fascinating Stuff - Tomas Restrepo
  


• Use caution with anonymous types and other new C# language features - Jeffrey Palermo
  


• 10 Cool things you can do with Windows PowerShell - PowerShell Team
  


• How many factories does it take to... - Rob Teixeira
  ' So a friend and I were talking about specific CABs, and containers, and DI, and MVP, and AOP/Cross-cutting injection, when I stopped and had to laugh '


• Using an IDE to write PowerShell Scripts - Scott Hanselman
  OK, I'm finally convinced to check if Powershell is a worthy cmd.exe replacement


• Managed Operating Systems - Oren Eini
  Oren inspects some opensourced OS'es
  ' You can take the kernel out of C, but you can't get the C out of the kernel, I would say '


• Mega-Million Dollar Idea: Diamonds@Home - Leon Bambrick
  Leon has a plan to get immensely rich using your PC