LINKBLOG for April 13, 2008

• 101 More Great Computer Quotes - DevTopics
  


• Why Does a Meeting Need Buckets? - Johanna Rothman
  ' Status meetings are not meetings; they are rituals '


• April 11th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, Silverlight - Scott Gu
  


• The direction Microsoft is taking - Coding Sanity
  


• Windows is 'collapsing,' Gartner analysts warn - Gregg Keizer
  And more harsh words directed to Microsoft ' Due to poor response to the marketplace and decades of legacy issues, Microsoft must either radically change Windows or risk its collapse '


• The Logs That Bind.. - Michael Feathers
  ' If you log you have to manage the coupling it induces. If you don't, it will manage you '
  If you don't carefully implement logging in your application, it will unnecessarily complex matters


• Encrypting Passwords in a .NET app.config File - Jon Galloway
  Where Jon uses "Salt Is Not A Password" as salt. If you just frowning now, this article is for you


• Do you Really Want to Be a Development Team Leader? - Andrew Tokeley
  Some things you rather be aware of before trying to make your way up in the food chain


• Mocking Events - Aaron Jensen
  


• Password Minder 1.5.0.10 Released - Keith Brown
  


• #4 - Shelving - Pieter Gheysens
  One of those source control things that are easy to forget about, but can be o so useful for several reasons


• Designing With Lambdas - Part I - Sergio Pereira
  Use an Action<T> delegate and a Lambda expression to change the standard code for reading a file into something more C# 3.0 like


• How to open a project file in Visual Studio 2008 for editing - Dan Rigsby
  More PowerCommands goodness


• Numerical Laplace Transforms and Inverse Transforms in C# - Walt Fair, Jr
  


• Just Do It! or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Job - J. Ambrose Little
  ' Software is complex enough without our making it more so with artificial taxonomic and gubernatorial schemes '


• The New Robert Scobles: Seven Leading Corporate Social Media Evangelists Today - Marshall Kirkpatrick