LINKBLOG for March 7, 2008

• Kazel Bradley on Testing after Unit Tests - Hanselminutes
  


• How To Triple Your Week Without Anyone Noticing -- Jarkko Laine
  ' Take one hour from any of those unproductive activities every day - and in a week you will have acquired seven hours more than the rest of the world! '


• The Weekly Source Code 18 - Deep Zoom (Seadragon) Silverlight 2 MultiScaleImage Mouse Wheel Zooming and Panning Edition - Scott Hanselman
  ' Very cool and fairly easy considering all that's going on '


• Did you know... How to stop the Toolbox from auto-populating with items found in the solution? - #167 - Sara Ford
  


• Advanced mocking: auto-interaction testing - GrabBag
  ' During testing, you don't want actual emails being sent out, so you hide email sending (...)
  But what happens when you're working in a legacy system, or the difficult component you're dependent upon is the class you're testing? '


• An example of how changing a UI can piss people (me) off - Derik Whittaker
  Look! Google changed their Advanced Search page


• Cold, Hard, Cache! - Alan Northam
  ' I call it the code equivalent of "Trust but verify" '


• A simple trick to code better and to increase testability - Patrick Smacchia
  The message: Keep your Nesting depth as low as possible


• Software Design Best Practices Debate - Steven Smith
  On the enourmous difference in trade-offs framework developers have to make as contrasted with "the other 99% of devs"


• Find Your Value, But Eschew Newton's First Law - Scott Reynolds
  ' The old wisdom about habits (what are habits other than inertia?) is true. Good habits are as hard to break as bad ones. Start some new good habits '


• More about the wiki adventure game... - Leon Bambrick
  Games, games!
  ' Dodgy pre-alpha Prototype here '
  


• Using the Factory Pattern for reading object graphs in .NET - Philippe Leybaert
  ' The idea is that every object class has its own FromXml() method which creates its own object according to the XML node passed in as a parameter '


• Top 13 Visual Studio Keyboard Shortcuts - Boyan Kostadinov
  ' Master the following Visual Studio shortcuts and your colleagues might stare at you with amazement '


• Book Review: Pro C# w/.NET 3.0 - Rhonda Tipton
  


• Radio TFS - Martin Woodward
  New podcast, on Team Foundation Server


• List of Book Lists - Matt Blodgett
  


• Just writing unit tests is not good enough - Matt Berther