LINKBLOG for April 10, 2008

• ASP.NET MVC: MVC Storefront, Part 3 : Rob Conery
  Third screencast of Rob's endeavor to create an online e-commerce shop; with your help


• Outside the Design Boundary - Beautiful Code
  ' You can ignore the problem and let more and more code fall outside the design boundary, but the right thing is to push the design boundary forward, to embrace all of the new code and assimilate it into your design '
  Why does this sound so familiar?


• An idea for making efficient use of your Multiple monitors for Development... - David Christiansen
  Clever idea, Visual Studio layed out over two monitors


• Digital Identity, Privacy, and the Internet's Missing Identity Layer - Kim Cameron
  If you somehow missed the story of the German CCC and Germany's interior minister, Wolfgang Schauble, do read it, and learn why fingerprint biometrics sounds nice in theory, but turns out an awfully bad idea in practice


• Unit Test Projects or Not? - Bill Simser
  Bill responds to Phil's post on how to set up your test project structure


• Pair-Programming, Keyboard, and Mice - Sean Feldman
  My little son (5) has the same problem: while watching video's on *my* laptop he always plays with the mouse. I unplug it and then have a good time with him first frowning, then thinking he broke something, then realizing the truth...


• Learning from games - Phillip Toland
  


• The Importance of Writing the Test First - Ben Scheirman
  Take away: never assume


• Become a Lifestyle Entrepreneur: Complete Guide and 40+ Resources - Travis Wright
  ' Time minimalists, Nomadic entrepreneurs and "doing it for love" '


• ASP.NET Dynamic Data Preview Available - Scott Guthrie
  


• The fastest way to insert 100K records - Pablo
  


• TFS Team Project Permissions Relief - David Starr
  We feel the PITA here, so this is really welcome!


• February / March 2008 Recap - Jon Galloway
  For those who really lived under the proverbial rock for the last two months, Jon created a massive link overview


• InternalsVisibleToAttribute and Strong Named Assemblies Step by Step - 'Will'
  indeed: signing assemblies can get you into at least a lot of extra work. I once started signing all assemblies in a big project, until I realized I would just use a wrapper around the signed assembly: much easier (not possible here, however)


• MicroISVs Productivity: Eliminating Distractions is Key - Bob Walsh
  


• Simple extension methods to help with Asserting values - Derik Whittaker
  Nice usage for extension methods


• Grouping Linq Aggregates in C# - Justin Etheredge
  ' So there you have it, we now have a Linq query that is capable of grouping on a specific key and then return a count for each of our groups '


• SetUp Failures - Greg Young
  ' Should a SetUp failure actually be a failed test? ' elaborated in the comments


• The Case Against Overtime - Russell Ball
  Love comparisons like these! ' If a customer went into a store and put more items in their shopping cart than they had money for, then they would reasonably expect to have to put a few items back while checking out '


• The Weekly Source Code 23 - Big Solution Edition - Scott Hanselman
  


• 5 Offbeat, Free Utilities for Everyday Tasks - Samuel Dean
  All new to me


• Removing Duplicate Code in Functions - Alex Mueller
  ' Writing duplicate code to me is like using poor grammar '


• We Don't Use Software That Costs Money Here - Jeff Atwood
  Jeff argues that you don't get your software revenues for free in 2008 (no pun intended) ' do you understand what it takes to build the premium experience that trumps your free competition? And can you deliver it? '


• Are You Running a Side Business Without Even Noticing? -- Jarkko Laine
  Interesting question. There's probably not a lot of bloggers (except for the 'personal diary' types) who only blog for fun, but have *some* rationale behind it ' Here’s a question for you: Could it be that your blog is, in fact, a business? '


• QA Insight: Brent Strange's Software QA blog - James Bach the QA Hero
  ' If you are in QA and you don't follow James Bach then you are just making it hard on yourself. He paves the way '
  My personal tip: follow some of the QA/testing blogs; you might become a better dev by learning how QA looks at your software


• Following Principles - K. Scott Allen
  Scott has some possible answers to his What's wrong with this code from some time ago