LINKBLOG for April 3, 2008

• Caring for the Team - Alex Mueller
  Alex shows the similarities with caring for your newborn


• Injecting Some Control Into Legacy Code - Tony Rasa
  


• How to Branch Properly - Dan
  in Subversion


• Deployer - Predrag Tomasevic
  ' Automate deployment of Windows Services, ClickOnce and other .NET applications '


• Tales from an Interview - Sasha Goldshtein
  More interview questions


• Question of the week - Simon Brown
  Steps to take if you want to head to Architecture


• Challenging the Myths of Myths of Lines of Code - Bill Miller
  ' Having insight to the measure of LOC permits the manager and the team to ask good questions, questions that you wouldn’t know to ask without the information '


• Unit Testing with Silverlight - Scott Guthrie
  


• Effective Test Automation Isn’t Created in a Vacuum - Elisabeth Hendrickson
  Baseline: QA shouldn't work in isolation


• Passion Does Not Mean Total Indifference of Other Things - Soon Hui
  Who says you can't be professional if you lack passion (that is not to say passion is a *good thing* ' Vocational programmers are not lacking in professionalism, they may not even be lacking in IQ either. What they are lacking, is passion '


• Can We Develop Agile Software in Traditional Organizations? - DevAgile
  


• Getters, Setters and the Great Coverage Conspiracy - 'Dan'
  ' For me it’s pretty clear. Don’t write unit tests for getters and setters. Better still, don’t write getters and setters (except where necessary) '


• The Song that Never Ends - Charles Miller
  Companies still fail to read their own EULA's
  ' The first time I remember seeing this happen was when Geocities was bought by Yahoo back in 1999. Why, then, is it still happening today? '


• Web Garden, AppDomain, statics… when Sql Server is not enough to save your session - Carlo
  ' Bottom line is: does not use statics with Web Garden, or be sure you always check if your data objects are correctly initialized (...) '


• Why Are There So Many Dead Blogs - Follow Steph
  true words, maybe it should be just as easy to quit than it is to start
  "Blogging is very easy to start, it has almost not barrier to entry. However the path to successful blogging is very hard; it takes time, it takes energy (...) '


• The Difference between Information, Knowledge and Wisdom - Friday Reflections
  ' Wisdom is the practical discrimination of that knowledge, which comes with experience and with common sense '


• Enterprise Library 4.0 Community Technology Preview - Tom Hollander
  


• SharePoint As A Development Platform - Charles Chen
  The pain points
  ' - SharePoint isn't easy to install
  - SharePoint isn't easy to configure ' ... and more


• Project Management for Creative Teams: Art and Science - adaptive path
  Creative PM's in contrast with their traditional counterparts


• 14 Ways to Find a Wi-Fi Signal - Mike Gunderloy