LINKBLOG for April 8, 2008

• 37signals is spot on - Mitch Denny
  ' In short - just say no to big monolithic projects. Gather a crew of enthusiastic developers and set them loose on making your world a better place '


• On The Shortcomings of WF - Charles Chen
  ' I always inevitably end up spending quite a bit of time cleaning up the mess left by the code generation engine ' hehe, that's certainly not the way the Microsoft developers has in mind :-)


• Archive Choosing Your Tools Wisely - Mike Gunderloy
  Mike reminds us of the importance to make good trade offs when buying software and that there are other methods for decisions other than trying it out (reviews, asking around)


• 10 Years Of Open Source - Abhijit Nadgouda
  


• Replace your Collections with IEnumerable - Tony Rasa
  ' Extension methods are fun. I look forward to abusing them heavily in all my new work '


• Mocking nested methods - Chris Brandsma
  Chris wonders whether this is even a good idea :)
  ' I’m sure this is not new, I just can’t find any mention of it on Google right now. Which probably means it is a bad idea '


• UI Prototyping Tools - Carel Lotz
  


• Reacting to change - Jimmy Bogard
  ' When dealing with the possibility of change in requirements in the middle of development, I've generally seen three reactions: '


• 4 Key Differences Between Implicit and Explicit Interface Implementation - Shahar Y
  important to understand these things... ' Explicit method implementation can not be abstract, whereas an implicit method can. Class that use the explicit implementation can not be abstract! '


• Why WPF Rock... (The content model) - Rudi Grobler
  ' There is nothing making you appreciate the new stuff in WPF more than living without it for a week '


• Ignoring Third Party Exceptions - Jeremy Jarrell
  Good tip: something you maybe don't realize, but DebuggerNonUserCode can really get in the way of exception handling...


• Did you know... Why does each Toolbox group have a Pointer control, and what does it actually do? - #189 - Sara Ford
  


• Use a Single Web.Config for IIS6 and IIS7 - Dave Donaldson
  


• Google Analytics ASP.NET Grid Counter - Luis Ramirez
  for the stats-obsessed among us


• Disconnected N-Tier objects using EntityFramework - Ruurd Boeke
  


• Charlie's Deck and Demos from his Essence of LINQ Talk - Charlie Calvert
  


• Pattern Matching in C# - Part 2 - Bart de Smet
  As Bart mentions in the comments -which you should really not skip- the slick graphs are made with CLR Profiler,a Microsoft download


• Next Generation Production Debugging: Demo 2 and Demo 3 - Sasha Goldshtein
  Nice explanation, a bit like Mark Russinovich's case files


• [Book Review] Software Architecture in Practice - Evan Hoff