LINKBLOG for March 13, 2008

• IS-A IS-A HAS-A - Reg Braithwaite
  From the title you would guess this is on inheritance and interfaces (and you'd be right)


• Did you know... You can Right-drag code to do a Move or a Copy? - #170 - Sara Ford
  And Sarah wants your 'obscure IDE tricks'


• First assume all new email is useless - John Graham-Cumming
  ... and you're right in most cases


• How stable is your code? - Mike Hall
  If you like some mathematical looking expressions describing the 'Stable Dependency Principle'


• What Silverlight 2.0 won't do for you - Ruurd Boeke
  


• Launch Into 2008...A Microsoft Geek's Timeline - Sam Gentile
  Find out the first time some key Microsoft terms were coined... nice for historic purposes


• Essential Tools and Tips for MS Outlook Efficiency - Samuel Dean
  


• Open Thread: What Won’t You Put on the Web? - Mike Gunderloy
  Mike receives a couple interesting comments on this thread


• Turn Anonymous Types into IDictionary of values - Roy Osherove
  ' Use anonymous types to create and initialize a list of dictionary values which you can pass around '


• Tags vs. Categories - J.D. Meier
  


• Works on My Machine logo as ASCII Art - Joseph Cooney
  ' prefect for check-in/defect resolution/bug triage/investigation comments '


• C# 4, part 5: Other bits and bobs which probably don't merit inclusion - Jon Skeet
  


• Visitors and Multiple Dispatch - K. Scott Allen
  


• Free download: Keyboard Jedi (Learn all of you applications keyboard shortcuts) - Robert Shelton
  


• Privacy and Power - Bruce Schneier
  


• The Inheritance And Composition Duel - Abhijit Nadgouda
  ' Code reuse is a side-effect, not the purpose, of using inheritance, and hence it can make your life easier when it is wanted and hell when not '


• Pinging a Remote Computer - BlackWasp
  basic stuff


• Float, Double and Decimal: do you know the differences?
  This goes a bit deeper than you might expect (covering mantissa, FPU etc.)


• Never Write an Insecure ASP.NET Application Ever Again - Don Kiely
  ' Learn to take advantage of the inner workings of ASP.NET's security model to help eliminate security vulnerabilities from your web applications '


• Some WCF Vocabulary - David Starr
  


• The many faces of ExpectedException - Jimmy Bogard
  ' Instead of using an attribute or doing manual try-catch blocks, xUnit.net introduces an Assert.Throws method, where I can supply behavior through a delegate '


• Downloading the Blogger Backup Utility 101 - Greg Duncan
  Think I'm linking this for the 2nd time, but me regularly uses this super-handy tool with pleasure. If your blog is hosted on Blogger, this is for you.


• Visual Studio 2008 Plug Ins - Bill Evjen
  


• Retaining Employees: 10 Steps That Will Keep Them Happy - KeepITSimple
  Use an agile process for IT - (...) a process for IT projects that doesn't suck the life out of people by putting too much red tape in place. '


• if ... else if ... else if ... else ... : an alternative - Philippe Leybaert
  always make your code as clean as possible


• Talking Story with Say Leadership Coaching: A List to Help with Your Better Conversations
  ' If I am hard pressed to recommend one and only one tool as THE most essential one in every manager’s tool kit, there is no question for me what it will be '
  via Jason Haley