LINKBLOG for April 21, 2008

• Forced To Write English Syntax Code - Simplicity or Burden? - Jurgen Appelo
  Humorous guest post over on Max Pool's place. Warning for Americans among us: maybe this is not for you if you can't point out Europe on a globe (unless you have a good sense of humor
  
  Btw, check out Jurgen Appelo's blog. Seems to contain a lot of Agile writings in an enthusiastic tone!


• There's a voice... - Kyle Baley
  Kyle argues for having kind of a formalized 'free man' in your development team


• The Developer Exchange Program - Steve Harman
  Steve goes further into the 'free man' stuff


• Did you know… You can redirect debug messages to the output window? - #198 - Sara Ford
  


• Book Review: Lifehacker - 88 Tech Tricks to Turbocharge Your Day - Rhonda Tipton
  Looks like a nice one if you're into the lifehacker stuff. And there's something for both Mac and Windows users


• IDisposable Interface explained! - Alan Mojab
  


• Funding Open Source Projects - Oren Eini
  Documentation is not fun, so why not pay for it (I can hear the anti-MS people start bashing on the point that OSS and money are incompatible...) ? ' You want more documentation for doing X, pay for it. You want feature Y, likewise '


• Secret Strategies Of The Gurus: Guru 1 - Bill Gates As A Small Business Entrepreneur - Travis Wright
  


• Rebuilding the build server on every build - Vidar Hokstad
  using virtualization. Good idea? Even brilliant?


• New Pet - Randall Munroe (xkcd)
  ' import soul '


• Cloud Computing and Identity - V Bertocci
  Looks interesting, added it to the TOREAD list
  


• Finding Health and Balance as a Blogger (or, Life Will Kill You, Not Blogging) - Israel Lagares
  ' A Pep Talk A Day, Keeps The Balance In Play '


• Proxy Listeners and Proxy Clients (P2P Communication) - Victor Pirkle
  ' Implementation of Listener and Client objects that communicate through a web proxy '


• Backing up and restoring Visual Studio settings - Rick van den Bosch
  Which contains much better advice than my tip some days ago on manually making a backup copy of your .vssettings file


• Parallelism and CPU Affinity - Sasha Goldshtein
  On affinity, and how Windows actually *does* quite a nice job scheduling threads
  ' If I have a task that is affined to one CPU, then if that CPU is busy but another is available, I have no means of executing the task '


• From Developer to Technical Manager - Aaron Lerch
  Aaron makes real-life observations on the manager thing, a secret dream for many of us, but:
  ' For the right type of person, it’s a good move, if you’re ready for it. For the wrong type of person, you’ll never be ready for it, so avoid it like the plague'