LINKBLOG for March 5, 2008

• Games People Play - Reg Braithwaite
  Reg elaborates extensively on the hiring process, and how to prevent your candidates from gaming your interview


• Did you know... How to pretend the configuration manager doesn't exist, ... - Sara Ford
  ' ...besides closing your eyes and saying i don't see you? - #165 '


• Microsoft Office Live Workspace Beta now available for everyone - Greg Duncan
  Now you can have your own little sub-SharePoint in the cloud.


• Caching in for Fun and Profit - Tommy Hanks
  


• How to create fully encapsulated Domain Models - Udi Dahan
  ' By focusing on the dependencies we now have a domain model that is reusable across many environments (server, client, sql clr, silverlight) '


• Miguel de Icaza and Dragos Manolescu: On Open Source, Mono and Moonlight - Channel 9
  


• How poor IM communication killed the Developer - Derik Whittaker
  (...) a few classic IM's I have received in the past that have no clear meaning without context. '


• Some recommended books - Ian Cooper
  Personally I felt espacially attracted to the first 'Head First Design Patterns'. If you're new to the pattern thing , this is really a refreshing, original and eye-opening book


• Indefinite Hiatus - Dare Obasanjo
  


• Unity IoC API Changes Affect Code Samples - March 4, 2008 Weekly Drop - David Hayden
  


• A WPF Graph Control Library - Derek Bartram
  ' presenting a WPF library for producing extensible runtime customisable graphs '


• XML serialization for complex object model - brent.wjh
  ' handles object graphs and circular references in XML serialization '


• How I helped make things better: bringing order to a chaotic environment - Michael Eaton
  Horror story, sounds familiar to you?
  ' Silly me. I was expecting something simple like "point your VSS here and get latest", but noooo....that was not to be. ;-) '
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