LINKBLOG for March 10, 2008

• The Danger of Lorem ipsum - James Avery
  ' The text of your site is arguably the most important part of your site, leaving it to the end is a bad idea '


• Architecting LINQ To SQL Applications, part 7 - Ian Cooper
  


• Dependency Injection for .NET using a Dynamic Service Locator with Dynamic Proxy Injection - Ralph Varjabedian
  


• Simple Demo of Binding to a Database in WPF using LINQ-SQL - Brian Stoker
  ' beginner example of binding WPF to a database using LINQ-SQL '


• Agile Adoption Has Hit A Brick Wall - Kelly Waters
  Kelly questions the possible unreliable answers provided by surveys: because of the way participants are selected in a wrong way; this is an interesting point indeed, selection bias is a serious problem in science if you don't do your research correctly.


• 10 ways to improve your code: Think outside the curly brackets - John K Waters
  Some good, simple and easy to implement tips


• Creating a great workplace for developers - Sarat Pediredla
  ' We don’t call what we do “workplace experiments”, as it is just standard practice for us '
  Sounds good


• Software Metrics: How They Can Help - Bill Miller
  


• And when you think there's nothing left to do... you can still debug live - Carlo Cardella
  On the black art that debugging is to some of us


• My Mom Is Not Going To Read This Code - Abhijit Nadgouda
  Advice on documenting: yes, but in a useful way
  ' (...) if you do want to communicate to a layman, user documentation is what is needed, that uses non-technical terms and explains benefits of the software, not how its code works '


• The Only Question That Matters: How Useful Can You Be? - Jarkko Laine
  It's not how good you write, but how much inspiration and new ideas you bring to the party


• On The Use of Code in Weblog Titles - Ryan Tomayko
  Humorous description of the way people put clever code in there. Especially funny cause some of the victims have been commenting on the post themselves.
  via Reg Braithwaite


• Fire non workaholics? - Michael Specht
  The summary at the end is a bit more balanced than the title suggests...
  ' the trick is when hiring make sure you hire correctly up front, that way you won’t need to fire anyone '
  via http://jasonhaley.com/blog/archive/2008/03/09/141305.aspx


• License to Practice - Nathan J Pledger
  ' What we [in IT, ed.] need is a License to Practice. Doctors have them, Accountants have them, Social Workers have them '


• A few reasons to like NHibernate - Oren Eini
  If a 16-point list is "very partial"....


• Write more empty lines! They will be read! - Philippe Leybaert
  ' (...) there's more to readability than inserting empty lines, but it's a point which is often neglected '


• KiloByte - xkcd
  The definitive explanation