LINKBLOG for April 11, 2008

• "Stuffy" Dowding - Reg Braithwaite
  ' So there is a problem: there is an incentive for subordinates to give falsely optimistic information to managers '


• Measuring Productivity of Individual Programmers - Steve McConnell
  Steve on the hard problems you get into when you want to measure individual developer productivity ' This really just speaks to the management chestnut that "what gets measured gets done," so you need to be careful what you measure '


• Programming Resources, News and Ideas: 4 places for developers to make money - Bayar Saikhan
  via Alvin Ashcraft


• Did you know... You can Ctrl+C copy and Ctrl+V paste controls into other Toolbox tabs? - #192 - Sara Ford
  


• A NET Cryptography Primer, Part Two - 'Will'
  


• The Business - Michael Lopp
  On salary, career, negotiations and how much you're worth


• TDD: The Road So Far : Rob Conery
  Rob summarizes where he stands after some exposure to TDD


• Work Item Web Access (WIWA) CTP (fka Codename TFS Bug Submission Portal) - Greg Duncan
  So, you can use a (locked down) TFS Web Access without a CAL


• The empty try block mystery - Siddharth Uppal
  Would you guess that this is related to Threading issues; not me!


• Free Tool - Extract Hard Coded Strings to Resource Files - Shahar Yair
  Small Microsoft giving you a new Refactor option in VS


• April 2008 Rosario CTP Available - Grant Holliday
  For those of us already bored with VSTS 2008, download your copy of a VirtualPC image containing new bits


• Donating $5,000 to .NET Open Source - Jeff Atwood
  Jeff donates a big sum to the .NET open source project ScrewTurn Wiki, sum doubled by Microsoft. Even if their commitment to opensource is not 100%, they are becoming more enthusiastic by the month


• Specifying a different serializer per endpoint in Wcf - Dan Rigsby
  ' you might have a single service, but some clients want to access it with either XmlSerializer serialized or DataContractSerializer serialized data '

By the way, on April 24, Jimmy Nilsson will be speaking in the Netherlands! Jimmy is a big proponent of DDD, and this evening he will explain his view on software development the DDD way, and the ways that Agile can be improved with it. I'll be going, and if you're in the Netherlands, you should too. Hope to see you there. For more info see the information page on the dotNed site who is organizing the event