LINKBLOG for April 4, 2008

• Tip/Trick: Creating and Using Silverlight and WPF User Controls - Scott Guthrie
  


• Coding productivity: macros, shortcuts and snippets - Kirill Osenkov
  nice tip-of-the-day giving a bit of Visual Studio automation


• Stephen Covey Speaks at Microsoft - J.D. Meier
  ... and J.D. explains in a longish but interesting report of it


• Windows Explorer TFS client with SvnBridge - Grant Holliday
  Really cool stuff. Did you know you can now use a TortoiseSVN client to communicate with a Team Foundation Server


• Ancient wisdom is inescapable, especially with project management - Chad Myers' Blog
  Chad has some sort of postmortem after ending his job; I really advice you read this piece which transcends our daily rat-race ' Any project, of any sufficient size, must achieve some sort of steady pace, a rhythm, a momentum to achieve success '


• Separate Stub and Verify != Duplicate code necessarily - Aaron Jensen
  


• New Horizons - Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo
  Jean-Paul shows how nothing in life has to be taken for granted and that if you really want (or are guided) you can do things in an amazingly different way


• A Better Continuous Integration + Version Control System? - Jim Bolla
  Dreaming about the future of CI


• 6 steps to successful Continuous Integration - Mirosław Jedynak
  Nothing new if you practice CI, but if you don't ...


• UI-First Software Development - Jeff Atwood
  ' Remember, to the end user, the interface is the application '


• How do Extension Methods work and why was a new CLR not required? - Scott Hanselman
  Scott explains this question making heavy use of Reflector


• Never reveal too much - A tale on physical security - Bart de Smet
  Tell the user exactly what he *needs* to know but nothing more


• Writing a WCF POX Syndication Service - Marc Jacobi
  Nice idea, and a good reminder to keep looking for the new things in the framework you use (be it .NET or something else): why invent the wheel if your framework even offers RSS/Atom support out-of-the-box these days


• 5 Steps to Making the Switch from Side Gig to Full Time Professional - FShama Hyder
  Interesting stuff, found thanks to Jason Haley