LINKBLOG for March 29, 2008

• Locking Rule #71 - Paul Stovell
  Dangerous code ahead:
  ' Never invoke code you don’t control whilst holding a lock '


• Programming Is All About Passion - Soon Hui
  So be it


• Linq to Xml ,querying the file - 'Donald'
  


• Continuous integration future? - 'Pablo'
  


• It does not take a Superstar - Developer types enumerated - Frank Kelly
  


• Reputation Management: Your Next Social App? - Mike Gunderloy
  Completely unbeknown to me, I got an invitation to some Reputation service a couple days ago, and I'm still pondering whether to accept (i.e. if I really believe in a service like this)


• Expression Trees: Why LINQ to SQL is Better than NHibernate - Lee Richardson
  Going deep in LINQ to SQL


• Sorting List's the .Net 3.5 Way - Derik Whittaker
  


• IE vs. Standards - Jim McKeeth
  Thoughts on the points Joel made last week with his post on Martian Headphones


• RedirectToAction in Filter Attributes - Kyle Baley - The Coding Hillbilly
  ' Alas, my crest has fallen. No way to access RedirectToAction or Url.Action from within a filter attribute. They are protected or internal, I don't care which because neither will help me '


• Anders Hejlsberg Film Festival: The C# and other VS Language Teams at the Movies - Charlie Calvert
  It's video time over at the C# team


• CHAPTER 1: Problems and causes with the way we develop software - Dan Bunea
  Interesting start of a mini book on agile software development


• Domain Objects and Dependencies - Azam Sharp
  


• The problem of over aggressive caching - Oren Eini
  


• Visual Studio Themes - Rhonda Tipton
  Rhonda likes to change her theme depending on mood, which is a really easy thing to do actually


• Put perspective on both short and long term problems - Nick Malik
  No Silver Bullet here....
  ' Lot's of red flags go up when someone tells me: this is the problem and this is how you solve it. Perhaps I'm just that kind of person '


• Why Can't I Access A Protected Member From A Derived Class, Part Two: Why Can I? - Eric Lippert
  Learn that a piece of code only compiled in C# 2.0 because of a compiler error (so it doesn't compile anymore in C# 3.0)


• The Long Road To Rescuing Wally - Sergio Pereira
  ' If one team member is no longer bringing his A-game, the other members will have to pick up the slack, which is not exactly fair '


• Who is a Product Owner? - David Starr
  relevant remarks as to who is a product owner and what are her responsibilities


• Password Field Tip - Jason Haley
  Nice tip, especially where Jason suggests *not* to save passwords at all :-)