LINKBLOG for April 12, 2008

• Seven Tips for Making the Most of Your RSS Reader - Marshall Kirkpatrick
  If you have trouble managing all incoming content, here might be some good tips


• LINQ with DataReaders - Dev Prime
  


• A Method Context Information Gathering Framework - Marc Jacobi
  Framework that helps gathering your Trace information


• PowerCommands for VS 2008 v1.1 Released - Greg Duncan
  Get the ability to add things like Undo Close to the IDE: how often has it happened that you closed a file and took one full minute to re-open it and go back to the right location


• Design for Performance Up-Front? - Sasha Goldshtein
  ' It is effectively impossible to ignore performance considerations, just as it is impossible to write incorrect code when you know that it's not going to do what you want it to '


• Fun with Continuous-Integration. Introducing: BILTONS - Adrian Aisemberg
  ' Now, if the build breaks because of the heavy-metal guy, we'll all hear some loud guitars and screams, and if the Russian dude fixes it, we'll hear some Russian disco '


• OpenID Check_Authentication In C# - Troy Goode
  Reading the comments you learn that also this implementation (supposedly) has it's problems. However, isn't it cool how developers help each other out by small snippets like these on their blogs and a good piece of discussion


• Raising events using extension methods - Adrian Aisemberg
  


• Who's the next guy? - Kyle Baley
  [Conscientious Coding] - ' The underlying principle is: Someone else is eventually going to have to deal with your code. Be nice to them '


• Simple client-server interactions using C# - Bob Janova
  


• CHAPTER 3: Communicating and Collaborating - Dan Bunea
  next part of Dan's little Agile book


• Everything I know about Code Reviews I learnt from Star Wars (and JCooney) - Leon Bambrick
  ' Many many iterations ago... in a project far, far away...'