LINKBLOG for March 12, 2008

• Using Routing With WebForms - Phil Haack
  ' The natural question I’ve been asked upon hearing that is “Can I use it with Web Forms?” to which I answer “You sure can, but very carefully.” '


• Security Products: Suites vs. Best-of-Breed - Bruce Schneier
  Bruce shines his light on IT


• Nerdfotainment - Rands In Repose
  Rands (I'm wondering why he doesn't just mention his name on his blog, because you can easily find that out by following his wish list) invents new word. Much inspiration over here!


• The Role of Architects and Architecture - David Starr
  ' Act as an evangelist - be passionate (but not a zealot) '
  It's funny (or maybe better: striking) how convincing/influencing someone regarding software development issues can resemble the real meaning of evangelism


• Strong Name your assemblies with Team Build using a private key - Grant Holliday
  ' Strong names are secure only when the strong name private key is kept secret '
  Although me agrees completely, in practice this is often really an issue/annoyance/whatever, so it's a step skipped easily


• MSBuild task to generate MSI Transform files from XML - Grant Holliday
  Allright, two posts from Grant in this issue, both interesting enough for a mention...


• Identifying Control Templates Parts in WPF - Christopher Bennage
  ' Luckily, there is the TemplatePartAttribute that's meant to decorate controls with named parts '


• 10 ways to keep employees happy (IT employees) - Derik Whittaker
  So real.
  ' I know every company says they listen, but that is BS. Most only hear what they want to hear '


• WPF: A Beginner's Guide - Part 6 of n - Sacha Barber
  beginner level article, nice if you're new to this stuff


• Community Convergence XLI - Charlie Calvert
  Once again news from the C# team


• Objects have dependencies. Methods don't - Jeffrey Palermo
  ' If your unit test has to know that another method on the same object is being called, then the unit test knows too much about the implementation of the object '


• Announcing Graffiti.Redirect 0.1 - James Avery
  New thingie automating web page redirects for you (at least, if you're on the Grffiti CMS)


• PTOM: The Liskov Substitution Principle - Chad Myers
  Clear description of this fundamental OO design principle


• Project Server 2007 VSTS Connector Version 2.0 - Mike Glaser
  ' Future versions of Team System will have native integration with Project Server, in the meantime this Connector solution is the best way to integrate the two Microsoft products '


• Choosing Your Own Adventure - Jeff Atwood
  Jeff is changing scope, but you have to read till the end to know
  ' I want to build stuff-- and talk about it. I have a little micro-ISV startup opportunity I'll be working on, a web property I'm building out with one of the above people '