LINKBLOG for April 23, 2008

Must say that this Twitter thing is really taking off. Might have to change my mind once everybody gets from blogging to twittering, as someone wrote...

• ASP.NET MVC: MVC Storefront, Part 4 - Rob Conery
  


• Linq Extensions Release 2 Now on CodePlex - Omer van Kloeten
  


• Should you TDD when flying solo? - Jimmy Bogard


• MVP Summit Shenanigans - Dave Donaldson
  Lots of fun meeting these days. I'm missing out


• RSA Cryptographic Key Interoperability - Jeffrey Walton
  Import and Export RSA Keys in PKCS#8 and X.509 Format using Crypto++, C#, and Java


• Give back to your testing framework - Yoav Sion
  


• Nest related resources in Visual Studio
  Mads shows how he nests .css and .js file inside a user control for more maintainability


• Change Your Work Hours to Get More Done - Jenneth Orantia
  We can be much more effective by doing the most pressing/important/whatever of the day on the moment we're the most productive. Hmmm, sounds logical if you think of it


• When to use Pair Programming - Isaac Sacolick
  At least not on all costs


• ALT.NET Geek Code: Should you care about these ALT.NET guys? - Scott Hanselman
  Scott on the "pragmatic" ALT.NET movement:
  ' Deep passion and belief can sometimes be perceived as loud or argumentative '


• Making an Asynchronous Call using the Impersonation Identity - Tom
  


• What makes a good application framework - Gojko Adzic
  ' A good framework makes simple things easy to do, but allows us to do complex stuff as well '


• Writing Testable Objects - Matthew Cochran
  using Dependency Injection


• How to Evangelize Unit Testing - Soon Hui
  Sometime you just need to take the pragmatic approach ' Since the developers hadn't bought in the idea, so I created the test cases for them '


• ReSharper 4.0, I love you but it may be time we break up - Derik Whittaker
  which would be sad, but the wait indeed is very long...


• 10 Useful Tips To Implement Distributed Fail-Over - Dmitriy Setrakyan
  About heartbeats, preventing deadlock situations and more


• Got var? - Jean-Paul Boodhoo
  A matter of code clarity versus succinctness. Read the comments for opposing opinions


• Why Unit Testing is so important? - Adil Akhter
  


• Individuagility - Jean-Paul S Boodhoo
  ' So you have researched agile development techniques, and are all fired up to put them into practice '
  [INSPIRATIONAL ARTICLE]
  ' Enjoy the journey!! '


• no title - Chris Muscarella
  ' So if you start the kind of startup where users come back each day, you’ve basically built yourself a giant tamagotchi. You’ve made something you need to take care of '
  Entrepreneurial thought of the day via Reg Braithwaite


• stackoverflow blog - Jeff Atwood
  So. Jeff has a new blog on Stackoverflow.com, and they have a weekly podcast (which is announced in the blog of course). Bet you already knew all this