LINKBLOG for March 24, 2008

• 16 Rules | Try to Live By - Travis Wright
  Lots of advice tagged 'positive thinking'


• How to Convert a Visual Studio 2005 non-Test Project to a Test Project - Brent Strange
  A hack


• Software Design: Quality vs. Performance - Adam Barr
  


• Could software be a list of business process mistakes? - Reg Braithwaite
  ' That’s a great argument for writing documentation: The act of documenting something forces you to see it from the other person’s perspective '


• Did you know... You can create Shortcuts in your Task List - #178 - Sara Ford
  


• Comfort vs. Confidence - A Thin Line Between Apathy and Assurance - Max Pool
  ' People who are comfortable are in fact - apathetic; however, it is very hard for some people to recognize '


• Collaboration Between Developers Within Software Firms: Why And How To Do It - George P. Alexander
  George argues that the days have passed that companies could 'just' let their developers perform a job and be done with it


• Runtime UI Binding Behavior - IEditableObject Adapter - Paul Stovell
  


• Comparing Moq to Rhino Mocks - Phil Haack
  ' it’s the clean discoverable API design and lack of the record/playback model that really sets it apart '


• Security Perception: Fear vs Anger - Bruce Schneier
  ' (...) we should not be fearful of future terrorist attacks, we should be angry that our government has done such a poor job safeguarding our liberties '
  well said
  


• Variations on a Func-y theme - Jimmy Bogard
  ' Lambdas are your friend '


• Reflector Screen cast - Chris Brandsma
  


• More than Just MVC for WPF - Marlon Grech
  ' MVC + M is a neat mix of the MVC pattern with the Mediator pattern. The MVC makes things much easier to test and much more isolated and controlled. The Mediator makes communication between Controllers possible in a loosely coupled manner '


• Simplified Asp.net MVC Controller Testing with Moq - Justin Etheredge
  


• ASP.NET MVC - Part 1. Free source code and programming help - Mark Nischalke
  Nicely worked out article describing the basics of ASP.NET MVC


• Semantic Web 2.0 User Generated Content is difficult to achieve - Nathan J Pledger
  


• Match Options Command Addin - Aaron Marten
  ' (...) back functionality to have "Match Case" and "Match Whole Word" buttons on the toolbar in Visual Studio 2005 '


• You should hard code the idea, not the value - Oren Eini
  ' The difference here is that I no longer hard code a specific value, I put the idea there. During deployment, I could have modified what morning meant, very easily '


• Hawkeye - The .Net Runtime Object Editor @Codeplex
  via David Vidmar