LINKBLOG for March 22, 2008

• Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training Kit - Alex Mueller
  ' This kit is a goldmine and will take me some time to get through it all. Free development training, take advantage of it '


• C# Trick: Load Embedded Resources In A Class Library - Claus Topholt
  nice tip


• Elegant Code Essay Contest - David Starr
  Another give-away contest - but be warned: you have to work for it :-)


• My Tools for Writing Software at Home - Dave Donaldson
  ' And in case you're wondering, yes, I do maintain a central build server with CC.NET and practice continuous integration at home '


• Windows PowerShell 2.0 Feature Focus - Script cmdlets - Bart De Smet
  the basics of powershell scripting


• A maintainable environment - anti corruption as a way of life - Oren Eini
  ' If I have to deal with my infrastructure explicitly, then I need to have developers dealing with it on a regular basis. That doesn't mesh well with the idea of moving all the complexity to the infrastructure '


• Monitoring source control changes in Visual Studio 2008 - Brent Strange
  And if you're a power user in this regards, there is a cool Event Monitoring Tool from Microsoft (which I've been frantically been googling without result - sorry, but I have it on my work machine) to tweak your way to total control


• Did you know... You can show Hack, Undone, and custom Tokens in the Task List? - #176 - Sara Ford
  


• Finding the public key of an assembly - Maurice de Beijer
  


• So much easier to test plain ASP.NET MVC controllers!! - Jeffrey Palermo
  


• The agile mini book - a 6 week series - Dan Bunea
  


• Some More On IT Project Failures - Abhijit Nadgouda
  ' (...) the more I have worked, the more I have started believing that most projects fail to provide value because they are not looked at as solutions '


• A Few Notes About The MVC CodePlex Source Code Release - Phil Haack
  Phil has more on Microsoft's ASP.NET MVC code drop


• Malware that wants to stay - Some passive protection tricks - Mark Long
  


• Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - The Weekly Source Code 21 - ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 Source Code
  and more on the ASP.NET MVC code drop


• You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss - Paul Graham
  ' Watching employees get transformed into founders makes it clear that the difference between the two is due mostly to environment ' Only: most of us are just too afraid to let it happen
  via Sterling Camden