LINKBLOG for April 26, 2008

• ASP.NET MVC: MVC Storefront, Part 5 - Globalization : Rob Conery
  


• What Every Engineer Needs to Know About Security and Where to Learn It - Adam Goucher
  Lots of good security sources here!`


• How to Build Your Blog’s Readership - Darren Rowse
  At least inviting comments by giving away books for free helps. It funny how Darren uses a technique to attract people to his site in a post on describing how to get more traffic... (and again some serious advice to start Twittering


• Why Can't I Access A Protected Member From A Derived Class, Part Three - Eric Lippert
  If you can immediately come up with the meaning of protected internal, read this!
  ' internal, protected and public are weakenings of the "natural" state of private. private is the default in C# '


• Coding the Architecture : The book - Simon Brown
  Looks like an interesting new book coming up


• Data Portability and the File System - Imran Ali
  


• Live Mesh, a first look - Rick van den Bosch
  


• The Problem Preventer - Chad Myers
  Summary: if you don't drop your wine on the floor, you don't have to clean the carpet


• Building an MVP Framework for .NET. Part 4: Strongly Typed Associations - Oleg Zhukov
  


• Cryptographic Interoperability: Digital Signatures - Jeffrey Walton
  


• Raising the bar - Jimmy Bogard
  ' Keeping self-improvement to your self might not improve your situation as much as you might like ' Getting better yourself and involve others like your team in the process


• 16 Tips for Getting Up to Speed & Exploiting the Power of CodeRush and Refactor! Pro - Mark Miller
  'nuff said


• Hack: Parallel MSBuilds from within the Visual Studio IDE - Scott Hanselman
  in response to Faster Builds with MSBuild using Parallel Builds and Multicore CPUs


• Demo Code Tools - Scott Watermasysk
  Where along the way as a Snippet Compiler lover, I learned that there is a new version available (for some time already)


• Refactoring Code Is Like Doing The Dishes - Max Pool
  Now that's what I call a real down-to-earth way to express the need for refactoring


• The Seven Deadly Sins of a Relationship - Leo Babauta
  (on a more personal note....) many relations end before their time is due - if their time is due at all -. Please take the time to invest in your spouse/friend/whatever, and don't let it slip away slowly


• A Tale of Two Teams Flash Video - Chris Spagnuolo
  Waterfall vs. Agile. Guess who wins?
  


• Skip the Tuition: 100 Free Podcasts from the Best Colleges in the World - Travis Wright
  Always wanted to go back to college? Now here is your chance to learn from home, for free


• Social Tools for the Office Worker: How to Subvert I.T. and Play at Work - Sarah Perez
  However, it *is* possible to legally used chat apps at work: if your team is distributed (even if that is within a building), it can be a really handy time saver


• Interoperability Happens - Everything that's wrong with "ESB" - Ted Neward
  ' A message to the ESB vendors: Don't make it harder on us... or yourselves. Give us hard technical info, not sensationalist claims '


• Self-employment - Ethan Vizitei
  Is it me, or is it really in the air this spring, people quitting their day jobs and starting for themselves? Now the weather is getting better, maybe it really is in the air