LINKBLOG for May 13, 2008

• How RSS Feeds Affect My Life & Work - Aliza Sherman
  Thoughts of an RSS newbie, which seems a species on the brink of extinction these days (in our spheres at least)


• Is Formal Project Management Necessary? - Bill Miller
  ' Successful project management is the process of managing change and taking corrective actions when change is identified ' So no change in the plan == no management


• Behavior Driven Development: As Human As Possible - Leon Bambrick
  Explaining BDD, being the latest(?) xDD around ' BDD = Test Driven Development Plus "natural sentence style test naming" '


• Continuous Integration resources - Ade Miller
  


• Trivial Projections Are (Usually) Optimized Away - Eric Lippert
  Nice one on decision making in the C# teams. Freely quoting from the C# specs


• The Value of Specializing Generalists - Jim Holmes
  ' Our industry's grown too broad for us to be experts at everything, even if clients expect us to be '
  Far too many devs still think they can keep up with everything - with me is a living example trying to get rid if that stupid idea :-)


• Who writes a blog post? - Maurice de Beijer
  Maurice point to an interesting article by Joe Wilcox regarding the question if some blog posts are nothing more than pre-written PR stuff, thus replacing the traditional press release (topic is pointing to Microsoft's newley released 3.5 beta bits


• A Programming Job Interview Challenge #3 - Shahar Y
  


• Use ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem With Anonymous Types - Matt Valerio
  


• Thinking in Concurrently in .NET - Matthew Podwysocki
  


• Write Active Conventions on your Code Base - Patrick Smacchia [MVP C#]
  Using NDepend's Code Query Language (if you know SQL, you know CQL) you gain insight in your project's problem areas in an automated manner, and with stunningly beautiful graphics


• Validation Across Class Hierarchies and Interface Implementations - Jahmani
  ' Dependency injection of validation rules and their application across class Hierarchies and interface Implementations '


• TLS: An exercise in concurrent programming - Nick Butler
  ' A walkthrough about multi-threading an app and a useful helper class '


• We are pleased to bring you new features in .NET 3.5 SP1 - Steve Maine
  New beta bits available (beta, mind you)


• Wrestling with WCF - Michael Eeaton
  O, the blessings of XML, or: why we wrongly use XML a a programming language these days, but without the goodies that accompany a *real* language (see Jeff's link in today's LINKBLOG btw)


• Quick Case: Case Of The Oddball Officer - Security Monkey
  Complete case file on SecurityMonkey's home today, so no need to await new episodes, which unfortunately are not too regular these days (S.M.: if it's still your paws playing up: good luck!)


• Management of Software Development: Top Five Reasons Why Prince2 Sucks - Jurgen Appelo
  Only the flowchart shown in the article - hopefully - gives you the shivers


• WorldWide Telescope- Microsoft Research
  The whole Twittersphere is blazing about something called WWT so it must be interesting. right?


• Your Problem Statement is The Problem - Scott Sehlhorst
  Problems, the way they manifest, and why you should distinguish the two


• Change the Font of Command Prompt Window to Consolas For More Comfortable Reading - Amit Agarwal
  


• XML: The Angle Bracket Tax - Jeff Atwood
  On the noise around data in XML, and some of the alternatives for XML


• Twenty Five Year Old Unix Bug Finally Fixed - Jason Chen
  Motto: it's never too late to fix a bug
  via Twitter/Marc Brooks


• Microsoft Meandering - Guy Smith
  Vista an Yahoo mentioned as two recent crucial mistakes in a compelling address to Microsoft
  thanks Jason