LINKBLOG for April 29, 2008

• MVC Storefront, Part 6: Catalog Completion and Initial UI - Rob Conery
  


• Prefer Composition Over Inheritance - Steve Rowe
  


• Why Windows Form Designer is Bad - Soon Hui
  ' (...) because it encourages one to put the UI logic directly into the designer class '


• SAML and Federated Identity Part 2 - Identity Management - Sam Gentile
  ' Retrofitting authentication and authorization into an existing Web application or Service is cumbersome and costly (yah think? :)) '


• April 28th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight - Scott Guthrie
  


• New Team Foundation Server projects on CodePlex! - Maarten Balliauw
  Ahh TFS Sticky Buddy looks cool... almost too cool for such a serious and expensive product, or not? Me is definitely gonna try this out


• Extreme Patterns with Oren - Glenn Block
  Some were profound and insightful advice from Oren Eini on design patterns (watch your head!)


• LINQ to CSV library - Matt Perdeck
  ' Easy to use library to use CSV and tab delimited files with LINQ queries '
  couple weeks old, posted for my own reference mainly


• Use File Preview Handlers in your (WPF) Application - Greg Duncan
  Never build yourself what's available in the framework


• Implementing Generic Caching - Dave the Knave
  for your ASP.NET website


• C# In Depth - Eric Lippert
  Book is out


• Evangelists... who? - Sarah Dutkiewicz
  Don't know who your evangelists are? Want to know who the others are in the Heartland area? Meet your local Microsoft Evangelists!
  


• Knuth: Wow - Greg Young
  Interview with K-nuth, stuff to ponder. On the one hand we have a giant in academic computer science who really earned his tracks. On the other hand agile development, an upcoming giant in delivering successful business software


• Navigational Workflows Unleashed In WWF/ASP.NET 3.5 - Pero Matić
  ' Case-study on the internals of a Navigational Workflow engine for a fictional dating website called “World Wide Dating.” '


• Individual Empowerment and agile... - Eric Gunnerson
  Some advice on how to cope with different personalities within your agile team, to keep the team-driven spirit alive


• LINQFarm: Understanding IEnumerable<T>, Part I - Charlie Calvert
  A key role for IEnumerable<T> in a LINQ to Objects: ' A typical LINQ to Objects query expression not only takes a class that implements IEnumerable as its data source, but it also returns an instance of this same type '


• Grow Your Own SyncRoot - Tim M
  Locking your objects the smart way


• TFS 2008 SP1 - An impressive list of features - Anthony Borton
  Not there yet but coming soon...
  thanks Alvin


• Windows XP and the importance of listening to customers - Eric Sink
  ' Microsoft is telling millions of its customers to jump. Out of principle, I am doing my best not to comply ' OK. There it goes: Steve Ballmer, PLEASE DON"T DISCONTINUE XP IN JUNE! I'm a happy paying user, wanting to continue use for a long time


• TIP: Introducing people who already know each other - Craig Bailey
  ... is (much) better than parting without introduction with someone you don't know


• Programmers Don't Read Books -- But You Should - Jeff Atwood
  Completely agreed here! Try to read a technical book on a regular basis. Whether that be one every 1, 2, 3 months: you decide! Do you know of an interesting tech book that is still undiscovered by the masses (so it can make *my* reading list, thank you)


• What Programming Languages Should You Know? > C: Portable Assembly - David Chisnall
  What you can learn from exotic (to me at least, don't know about you of course) languages like Erlang, Lisp and Smalltalk


• Obfuscation, Weird Languages, and Code Aesthetics - Thomas Taylor
  If you want to understand why this is "hello world" in a certain (unmentioned here) language: ++++++++++[>+++++++>++++++++++>+++>+<<<<>++.>+.++ +++++..+++.>++.<<+++++++++++++++.>.+++.------.--- -----.>+.>.