LINKBLOG for March 4, 2008

• Red-black trees (part 2) - Julian M Bucknall
  


• World XML Expert Tim Bray on OOXML BRM: "The Process is Irretrievably Broken"
  


• Blockers and How To Deal With Them - Grant Holliday
  ' (...) given the choice between “staying blocked” and “doing something about it” - I’ll always do whatever it takes to do the latter '


• patterns and practices Complete Catalog - J.D. Meier
  


• Tuyware's xGeneration BETA
  cool web thingie that creates classes for all elements in your pasted XML code
  via Roy Osherove


• What Do You Think of the “New” LinkedIn? - Judi Sohn
  Must say it was a pleasant surprise some days ago when I discovered the new looks... it gives a much better overview of all options, and more you might be interested in (questions, people you might know etc.)


• C# 3.0 Auto Property And NHibernate - Sean Feldman
  


• Patterns of daily stand-up meetings - Brent Strange
  ' If you're a manager, test lead, tester, woman, or man you need to be communicating...Every day. Don't leave people in the dark '


• To ReSharper or Not To ReSharper, that is the question... - Bil Simser
  And another opinion in the presentation meme


• How Not to Evangelize Unit Testing - Soon Hui
  ' For the non-converts, they want hard evidence, working evidence, not just unproven or unprovable assertions '


• A guide to basic computer forensics - Microsoft (PDF)
  Forensics has been a small pet peeve of mine alreay for years. From Microsoft comes this article with simple tips how 'normal' sysadmins can handle incidents via security.nl (dutch security site)


• I want... - Adam Alinauskas
  I sure hope at least *some* of Adam's "wants" are already satisfied...


• Two data streams for a happy website - Gojko Adzic
  '(...) most generic data flow is completely stateless, but user-specific actions are often stateful. If these two flows are clearly separated, then we can process generic actions with stateless services and servers '


• MICROSOFT: Heroes Happen {Here} presentation
  I'm OK with the HHH thing, but this will be the only linking to it, so you know I'm not living under a rock..


• The Cost Of Breaking Changes - Phil Haack
  ' In terms of recompile, it’s not necessarily recompiling your code that is the worry. It’s the third party libraries you’re using that poses the problem '


• Did you hear the one about the airline that can't accept passengers on Feb. 29? - Payton Byrd
  ' Modern frameworks such as .Net and Java take great pains to provide you with everything that the OS can provide to you in a way that it's simply unacceptable to not use them '


• Ten Reasons High-Tech Companies Fail - Wayne Allen
  


• The ABCDEFGHI of setting up Visual Studio for Demos - Daniel Moth
  Some tips on the art of presentations


• Presentations...are they about audience comfort? - Igloo Coder
  Some honest and really hand-on advice (triggered by the post above from Daniel) for those dreaded moments that you're in front of an audience


• .NET Reflector 5.1 - Lutz Roeder
  


• Finds of the Week - March 2, 2008 - Chinh Do
  some nice .NET tips here


• Mascot Naming Contest - Windows PowerShell Team Blog
  Nice little robot. DON'T go here if you're allergic to Microsoft ads


• Six Months in the Inside - Am I evil yet? - Scott Hanselman
  We don't know whether Scott turned evil, but after al, if he had, would he tell us :-)