LINKBLOG for March 25, 2008

• Translating intentions and mechanisms - Eric Lippert
  


• Inner, Outer, Let's All Join Together With LINQ - K. Scott Allen
  


• NullObject.For - Paul Stovell
  


• Handling, throwing - exceptions and Clean up on error - Thottam R. Sriram
  


• Martin Hellman on the Invention of Public-Key Cryptography - Bruce Schneier
  video, but you'll have to do wome work first
  ' download the ten files, then use a fairly recent version of WinZip to concatenate the files '


• Are We Entering the Post-Reader Era? - Mike Gunderloy
  Mike wonders whether we need new services beyond feed readers as we know them now


• Microsoft Joins 5 Social Networks in Data Portability Pact - Josh Catone
  Personally I don't see any relations *at all* between Facebook (social) and sites like LinkedIn (business) so why combine everything? Or am I seeing things wrong, and is it a good thing to couple every available service available on the tubes?


• Developing a Robust Data Driven UI Using WPF - The DataModel - Eran Kampf
  


• VisualSVN Server 1.1
  


• Putting username/password info in the URL Querystring - Derik Whittaker
  


• Object-oriented database programming with db4o - Buu Nguyen
  db4o is a so-called ODBMS. Read more if you're interested, and go to part 1 of the article if you want to know about db4o in general


• Lighten up, you're having fun - Kyle Baley
  Kyle has a nice post on passion, humility and the destructiveness of "holier than thou" attitudes


• Michael Arrington’s Inbox is Fat! - Scott Sehlhorst
  


• Am I an engineer? - Dominic Cronin
  Lot of essays today... via Reg Braithwaite


• Why Alt.Net? - Scott Reynolds
  Long essay


• Empty Inbox - Using Getting Things Done and gMail @Labels - Scott Cate
  ' The idea is simple. The inbox is for receiving, not for storage '


• Is Eeyore Designing Your Software? - Jeff Atwood
  On the vast differences in viewpoint to how-to-build-software between the Open and Closed Source worlds' In other words, if the Elbonians feel so strongly about localization, they can take that effort on themselves '


• yield is elegant - Chris Brandsma
  descussing a probably underused language keyword


• The Parable of the Bathroom - Karlagius
  Clear (and humorous) explanation of a complex issue
  ' Timeouts on locks are, in general, a BAD idea; so much in fact that the recommended locking syntax in C#, the lock statement, does not even give you an option to specify one '


• Where's my .NET 3.5 (on IIS), Dude? - Rick Strahl
  


• A MSN Messenger Library for Construction of Communication Based Applications - Derek Bartram
  


• Windows PowerShell 2.0 Feature Focus - Splat, Split and Join - Bart de Smet
  I'm sincerely planning on starting to use PowerShell for real, so far it's only plans unfortunately


• Software Is A Craft - Adding Simplicity
  ' If you don't have emotional responses to software, perhaps this isn't your craft '


• Run your MbUnit Tests from ReSharper 4.0! - Steven Harman
  


• How To Differentiate - J.D. Meier