LINKBLOG for April 2, 2008

• Visual Linq Query Builder (VLinq) - A Visual Studio Add-in to help build LINQ to SQL Queries (Think "Access Query Builder for Linq to SQL") - Greg Duncan
  Cool!


• Castle Dynamic Proxy - Jan Van Ryswyck
  


• Did you know... You can switch between Icon View and List Item View in the toolbox? - #185 - Sara Ford
  


• Inline XML Code Documentation using Sandcastle - Scott Nichols
  link collection via Chris Alcock


• 10 Ways to Learn New Things in Development - Ben Watson
  


• The Great OOP Misnomer - Evan Hoff
  ' Object-oriented programming is all about class design. It should have been named Class Oriented Programming (COP) '


• Using NHibernate as an ORM Solution for .NET - David Consdorf
  


• Things I Hate About .NET - Chris Love
  While still a rant on data-oriented pieces in the framework, it also contains directions on how to improve your code


• Using the Observer Pattern - Jack Altiere
  Implementation with lots of clear C# code samples


• Things you MUST dispose - Dot Net Facts
  


• A Fast/Compact Serialization Framework - .Shoaib
  


• Chain<T> - Greg Young
  ' a quick lightweight fluent interface for creating an IEnumerable<T> in a test '


• Projects in Visual Studio - Jacob Lewallen
  


• The most important quality of a developer: Self-criticism - Simone Chiaretta
  ' The best developers/architects are the ones that always criticized their own work in order to make it better '


• Pablo's Topic of the Month - April: Design Patterns - Chad Myers
  


• The Agile Elevator Speech - Mike Cottmeyer
  via David Vidmar


• Playing with Gravatar images - Mads Kristensen
  


• Chief Programmer Team Update - Steve McConnell
  This might be a key part of understanding the 10X productivity difference between programmers (take not of the emphasis) ' ... researchers have not found 10-fold differences among programmers working within the same organizations '


• What is wrong with this code? - Oren Eini
  This "what's wrong" ends up in a huge pile of comments; Oren also kindly provided the answers but don't go there before exercising your brain a bit...


• Raganwald in disagreement - Reg Braithwaite
  Interesting questions, join the conversation over there if you like
  f a better language (whatever that means) can make a good programmer better, why can’t it make a mediocre programmer acceptably average?


• LightReader - my foray into the world of open source software development - Michael Eaton
  It's fun to start a project even if only to learn a new technology (Silverlight in Michael's case)