LINKBLOG for April 16, 2008

• Towards Moore's Law Software: Part 3 of 3 - Jeff Moser
  Final part of Jeff's series with his thoughts on future software development


• How to convince your boss to let you go to DevTeach - Kyle Baley
  And by the way: this is a good reminder to spend more time at conferences and user group meetings!


• .NET Obfuscators - Tim M
  Didn't know there were so many commercial obfuscators available for .NET


• Did you know... you can double-click messages in the Output Window to jump to that location in the code? - #195 - Sara Ford
  


• A NET Cryptography Primer, Part 3 - Will
  


• The REAL truth about the REAL ID Act - Mike Hall
  One more step on the way to total control, and always under the guise of 'this will make us all more secure'. Read this post and Bruce Schneier's site for more on this topic


• The Scariest Day of a Software Release - Follow Steph
  Based on real-life field experience


• Your Session Has Timed Out - Jeff Atwood
  Indeed a solution like a Javascript polling your activity there is almost trivial to implement


• Never ever synchronize threads without specifying a timeout value - Pawel Pabich
  Misunderstanding threading can really bite you if you don't take care
  thanks Jason


• Creating an Agile Environment - Gregory S. Smith
  ' The Agile manager—more shepherding less directing '


• Improving Performance Through Stack Allocation (.NET Memory Management: Part 2) - Rick Minerich
  Coming with a big disclaimer on unsafe code, but if you're willing, you can gain some performance improvement


• Debugging can screw things up - Adrian Aisemberg
  I hadn't realized this phenomenon before. Solution is: don't change any value inside a getter


• Build Your Own NAS Device - John Simmons
  Yes, this is a 100% hardware post


• Urgency is poisonous - Jason Fried
  Mike Gunderloy points our attention to this wonderful post on urgency. It's funny but I see things labeled 'urgent' almost always being scaled down sometime later


• HtmlControlWapper Javascript - Jason Haley
  ' (...) this small set of javascript functions saved me a lot of time and duplicate code in writing a simple javascript/Html prototype '


• You Want IT When? | Simple by Design
  ' An Agile team has one primary goal: deliver working code in a short iteration ' The article discusses the dangers this approach might have; e.g. hopping quickly to implementation without doing at least *some* Design upfront


• Sure We’re Busy, But Are We Really Working? - Scott Blitstein
  Don't just mindlessly create that new free account, but spend one minute thinking if you really need it. Else you risk just to spend your day looking at new promising and shiny things that don't really add value