LINKBLOG for April 9, 2008

• Have you smellchecked your design? - Mike Hall
  ' Next time you design anything, whether it be a complete system, an application or just a component, make sure you smellcheck it and deodorize if necessary '


• Why We Need Web Apps on the Desktop - Josh Catone
  Why the desktop is not going away anytime soon. Tend to agree here. Browsers still have major limitations as opposed to desktop apps...
  ' The Browser is No Place for Multitasking '


• Subtext Awakens From Its Slumber - Phil Haack
  Sorry it’s been so quiet for so long, but the engine is back up and running full speed ahead


• Fire and Motion -- Leadership Strategies -- Joel Spolsky
  


• The Feeling and Reality of Security - Bruce Schneier
  ' There are some complex feedback loops going on here, between emotion and reason, between reality and our knowledge of it '


• Functional programming - Is it worth your time? - Andrew Matthews
  One of the other things I cannot set myself to investing some time. Andrew says we should
  ' Short Answer: Yes! '


• This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things, People - Nate Kohari
  Nate has some wise words to say to the loudmouths in our community -- well, let me strike loudmouth, and rephrase to 'people who put their really good stuff to the table in a way that leaves no room for discussion'.


• How to: Use strings in a secure manner with SecureString class - Dot Net Facts
  


• Still no viable Content Management solutions? - Nathan J Pledger
  Review of some paid CMS's


• Brute force concurrency testing - Oren Eini
  ' Testing concurrency is hard, just ask anyone who had tried. And tracking down concurrent bugs is even harder '


• Screen Scraper in Managed Code - Chris Gorecki
  


• Run your web apps on Google's infrastructure - Maurice de Beijer
  Don't have to investigate Google App Engine, the next thing coming out of the Google factory, but you might be interested


• Google AppEngine: evil virus or viral evil? - Leon Bambrick
  Cool, Leon did the Google App Engine investigation (well, if you consider 'Yep, evil' an investigation)!


• Visual Studio 2008 (Beta 2) Install - Easter Egg? - Jon Galloway
  funny


• Fix: Cannot copy file 'X' to file 'Y'. The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. in Visual Studio 2008 - Roy Osherove
  Useful little build tip


• Pash - cross platform PowerShell is out in the wild! Announcement - Igor Moochnick
  Powershell opensourced


• A NET Cryptography Primer, Part One - 'Will'
  First part of a beginner series on .NET Cryptography


• Dear software tool vendors, RE: I'm breaking up with you - Jimmy Bogard
  About growing up as a software developer
  ' We may meet again in the future, but only on my terms and only after I've chunked your marketing message out the window '


• Clean Code. Whew! - Uncle Bob
  New promising book coming up on agile software development (although the publisher's page suggests that it will come arrive next year...)


• Changing File Ownership In Vista and Longhorn - Alex Mueller
  showing that this is really a hassle and expects you to know what you're doing


• Trying out Linq for NHibernate - Kyle Baley