LINKBLOG for March 20, 2008

Down with the flu this whole week (as last one in the family), and still recovering a bit. That's why it was so quiet in here

• Why Managers Are Like Clumsy Storm Troopers - Max Pool
  ' it’s inevitable.
  Someday…somewhere…you will become a manager '


• Win the Heart, the Mind Follows - J.D. Meier
  ' Interestingly,if you connect at the intellect, you may not necessarily get the heart to follow '


• ASP.NET MVC - Testing issues Q and A - Maarten Balliauw
  


• ASP.NET MVC Framework on the Polymorphic Podcast - Jeffrey Palermo
  


• Avoiding Invasive API design - Oren Eini
  ' Now we have the same API for the simple (and invasive) scenario, but with minimal effort, we have made it possible to use non invasive and smart approaches '


• Time-to-Login-Screen, and the absolute basic requirements for good software - Chad Myers
  ' If it's approaching a month (...), then you should re-think how you do software entirely. Something is seriously wrong '


• Omea Pro Source (C#) Finally Available - Greg Duncan
  You don't get the chance to see the source of a (formerly) commercial product for free


• Did you know... How to create and view Todo's in the Task List? - #175 - Sara Ford
  


• The Weekly Source Code 20 - A Web Framework for Every Language - Scott Hanselman
  


• Never make assumptions about performance - Ben Watson
  


• Silverlight 2 Developer poster - Craig Bailey
  


• Beyond Code: Learn to Distinguish Yourself in 9 Simple Steps! - Prakash J
  


• Martian Headsets - Joel Spolsky
  Too long to read beforehand, so you'll have to do that yourself if you want to know what's in Joel's latest


• Number of Types in the .NET Framework (2) - Patrick Smacchia
  ... and Patrick goes out of his mind to count everything there is to count :-)


• Number of Types in the .NET Framework - Brad Abrams
  Brad has some numbers on the internals of the .NET Framework


• A Strategy for Building Stable Applications - Bill Miller
  Quality is a differentiator. Grab the low hanging fruit; put these practices to use in your own projects


• Morning Routine, Little Hacks with Big Results, and More… - Tim Ferriss
  Interview with Gina Trapani, Founder of Lifehacker
  One of the basic tenets of the GTD movement ' One simple but powerful habit is this: To act immediately on things as they come up '


• 13 Tips to Comment Your Code - DevTopics
  Found this one especially to-the-point, this one is all too often forgotten:
  ' 4. Don't insult the reader's intelligence '
  (translated from Spanish)


• The One Single Tip to Comment Your Code - Soon Hui
  Soon chimes in on the 'code comments' article above


• Does More Than One Monitor Improve Productivity? - Jeff Atwood
  ' The price of a few monitors is negligible when measured against the labor cost of a programmer or information worker salary '
  Of course. But the point is money is measured differently when spend on hardware than on 'soft'ware (i.e. personnell)