LINKBLOG for April 22, 2008

• The Monostate Pattern - Jeremy Jarrell
  ' The Monostate gives us the singularity of state that we so treasure in the Singleton, but without all of the static headaches that come along with it '


• Tagging Team System Work Items - David Starr
  While a bit of a dirty hack, this might be interesting if you're in love with tags (I know I am!) and don't mind bending your system a bit in directions not anticipated by the good TFS development team


• WPF Command-Pattern Applied - Jani Giannoudis
  Elaborate example with the right mix of (XAML) code and graphics


• Iterations vs. Flow - Dave Laribee
  


• .NET Installers - Tim M
  An overview (most paid, some free)


• Rightsizing your approach - Jeremy D. Miller
  Experience always pays off, even on smaller projects
  '(...) just knowing about existing libraries for common tasks would be helpful so you spend time solving the actual problem instead of rewriting log4net (true story) ...


• Process Template Modification in Visual Studio Team System - .Net Curry
  Changing the process template is not something you do during your lunch break; even looking at the length of the post will tell you this


• ALT.NET - Day 2 Continued - Ben Scheirman
  And ALT.NET - Day 3 Seems to be a fun conference judging from the faces; at least lots of respectable names were there...


• Programmatic Dependency Injection with an Abstract Factory - Danny Hui
  


• Opinion: The cost of modern software development - Rick Geek
  ' Are we willing to forego that performance, that energy savings, that truly usable system for the sake of higher graphics and ribbons '


• LINQ: Deferred Execution - Patrick Steele
  Explanation in code


• Convert from a MemoryStream to a string and back - Tim Stall
  Fiddling with Streams


• Working with streams - Josh Twist
  And some more tricks with Streams


• 10 Commandments for Programmers - Dev Topics
  Compilation of available"10 Commandments"


• Killing the Sacred Cows of Project Management - Glen Alleman
  just as in software development there is a lot of cows in PM that might need replacement. No truths here, just some food for thought


• Saving Seconds - Michael Lopp
  ' The mouse, while incredibly useful as a casual means of interacting with a computer, is not a productivity tool '
  You might laugh but saving a couple seconds here and there do add up over the course of a day


• Everything I Needed to Know About Programming I Learned from BASIC - Jeff Atwood
  If you but a pair of Atari 2600 keypad controllers, just to see how they did BASIC programming in the seventies, well yes, then you are a real geek :)