LINKBLOG for April 15, 2008

• How to work an 8-hour day - Ben Watson
  ' Don’t wander the halls looking for distractions–chances are you’ll find them ' This - and related activities - could very well be the no. 1 reason why so much time is wasted at work


• Critical dead-weight - Jon Skeet
  ' I was considering the idea of critical dead-weight: having enough users etc to keep the technology alive long past its natural lifetime '


• Creating a AutoMockingContainer with Microsoft Unity - Pretty darn simple - Roy Osherove
  


• Guidelines aren't rules - Jimmy Bogard
  


• Breaking Apart Excel Files with Beyond Compare - Jim Holmes
  


• Test First Development - Evan Hoff, Professional Code Junkie
  ' my thoughts in one shot:
  At the class level, form and function are significantly more important than implementation '


• Am I asking for too much? - Darrel Carver
  


• The Simple Life - Leo Babauta
  If everything in life were so simple


• Statement of Values - Sendhil
  Rehash of an old post, but a good reminder


• Creating Software is Not Like Building - J. Ambrose Little
  On the first looks, this seems a strong (and long - therefore 'on the first looks') essay on software architecture


• Printing PDF documents in C# - David Vidmar
  ' (...) printing (not creating!) PDF documents from code without user intervention is not a trivial task '


• Enumerating the GAC using 'foreach' - Adrian Aisemberg
  A way to enumerate all assemblies in your application


• Loading From an SVN Dump File - Mo Khan
  ... is a remarkably easy thing to do (if you ever need it)


• Thoughts on Testing an API - Derik Whittaker
  How API's are a different beast than ordinary application code' finding this Main Artery is critical on your journey to testing your API (...) API's tend to have a very few entry/exit points '


• Content Is Becoming a Commodity - Sarah Perez
  ' (...) the very technologies that we have grown to love are the same forces that are turning our efforts (...) anything we create, into a commodity '