LINKBLOG for April 30, 2008

OK, last edition for the next couple days. Time for a brake, cycling through the Netherlands with the family. Hope to see you back around May 7!

• Unhandled Exception handler (UnhandledExceptionEventHandler) to collect more information about unexpected exceptions - Thottam R. Sriram
  good idea


• Alan Cooper: Open-Source is a Sign of Failure - Hans-Eric Grönlund
  Guess we will have to live with high-profile engineers stating things like open-source and agile are bad...


• Mr. Yuk Says Project Roadmaps Are Poisonous - Max Pool
  Mr Yuk is totally right. These Gantt charts sometimes tend to completely ignore reality, having the owner live in her own dreamworld of 100% on-time deployments


• Internet Explorer: Get Firefox's Best Features in Internet Explorer - Adam Pass
  


• Why I’m a better software developer than you - Jason Young
  Sounds like an arrogant type, but he brings has some good point on the table


• Neuron 2.0 - The WCF and SOA Enabler - Sam Gentile
  


• I’ve accepted a job with Microsoft - Grant Holliday
  


• Hacking Visual Studio to Use More Than 2Gigabytes of Memory - Steven Harman
  


• Designing With Lambdas - Part III - Sergio Pereira
  


• Sexagesimal Conversions in .Net - Dan Rigsby
  


• Thoughts about building your own source control - Oren Eini
  ' Let me start by stating that you really don't want to do that '


• Thoughts on being a Solution Architect - Tom Hollander
  


• Podcast #3 - Stackoverflow.com
  


• Can Web Apps Get Too Drunk on Aggregation? - Marshall Kirkpatrick
  ' the only remaining problem left really unsolved may be user back backlash. You can aggregate all day long but users may feel like it's just too much '


• The Myth of the Lone Programmer - Adam Barr
  


• 14 Habits That Make You Fat - Travis Wright
  Getting fat (while being able to prevent it at least) is the root of all physical problems


• Who's driving the bus? - Chris Spagnuolo
  


• The Cardinal Rule of Automated Testing - Alan Keefer
  ' Your tests should break if and only if the product is broken '


• The Weekly Source Code 25 - OpenID Edition - Scott Hanselman
  Since OpenID should become the future of online authentication, it cannot hurt to spelunk opensource projects around this topic


• 3 Options for Rebuilding Your Software Without Risking Death - Andy Singleton