LINKBLOG for May 7 2008

Slowly getting back up to speed

• Day-to-day with Subversion - Bil Simser
  Lengthy article describing (probably) most aspects you'll encounter when using SVN on a daily basis


• Make Your Next Technology Move 10x Easier - Rob Walling
  No, this is not about moving from Java to .NET, but much more mundane (though not less important): moving your hardware if you move house


• Workflow Services Limitations: Part 3 - Send and Receive Race Condition - Sasha Goldshtein
  Nice series on the areas where Workflow Foundation is lacking ( part 1 and part 2


• The Stats Are In: You're Just Skimming This Article - Sarah Perez
  What is common knowledge, but confirmed by Jacob Nielsen, begs the question:
  ' Do Some People Have a Natural Info Processing Mechanism? '
  ...or are we just so much in a hurry that we don't process anything, rather just pick cherries and go on


• Hidden Undocumented Feature of Visual Studio 2008 - Dynamic XSLT Intellisense - Oleg Tkachenko
  Way cool if you have to hack in ugly XSLT every now and then


• Podcast #4 - stackoverflow
  


• A Tale Of Two Waterfalls - the.codist{}
  Waterfall vs. iterative


• Are Scott Guthrie and Scott Hanselman the same person? - Troy DeMonbreun
  Striking! Makes you think whether Scott's move to Microsoft last year was completely voluntary. Maybe he was abducted, with his identity being taken over by Scott G... more conspiracy theories can go to Troy's place


• Bait-and-Switch and Software Licenses at Discord&Rhyme - Nate Kohari
  


• Filtering the noise from above into a working plan - Jason Young
  ' What do you do when the amount of work being requested from management greatly exceeds the amount of work your team can actually get done '


• Comments in Code Indicate Functions Trying To Escape - Steven Smith
  on the (obvious hopefully) question which is better:
  // format the label based on balance
  as opposed to
  private void FormatCustomerBalanceLabel()


• There Is Always Risk In Portability - K. Scott Allen
  It's all about tests... ' it's not just in LINQ to SQL. Any multi-target technology runs the same risk. You just need an awareness and safety net (in the form of tests) to mitigate the risk '


• Introducing LINQ To Regex - Roy Osherove
  


• The Virtue of Junk Code - Jurgen Appelo
  ' The idea behind refactoring sounds good. On paper. But most software systems evolve. They don't just grow. And there's a difference '


• It's Your Bug. But It's Not Your Job Anymore - Esther Schindler
  ' Professional pride is a factor. If the bug is visible in some way (...) I think a lot of programmers would itch to fix it '


• An Optimization For Garbage Collectors... - Steve Harris
  


• Maintaining Discipline - Ethan Vizitei
  


• 16 Ways to Keep A Razor- Sharp Focus at Work - Glen Stansberry
  


• 4 Principles of Not Wasting Time - Pepe the Cow
  ' Wasting time is doing anything that does not contribute to my goals '


• What’s your Circle of Interest? - Paul Stovell
  Paul starts a new meme: knowing what to care about, and especially what NOT is key to staying in control over your NADD...


• The Moth: LINQ to XML, namespaces and VB - Daniel Moth
  


• Yes, you too can be a metrosexual developer! An interview with Justice Gray - Mike Duncan
  


• 11 More Visual Studio Shortcuts You Should Know - Amit
  


• Why It Takes So Long - -Bill Miller
  ' there are more requirements to address than the simple algorithm that delivers the primary functionality '


• Understanding Model-View-Controller - Jeff Atwood
  


• What To (Really) Do If You Find Out Your Parents Are Using Vista (redux) -
  ' Good children don't let parents run as admin '

And these somehow didn't show up last week, so there they go in the rebound:

• Reflection: Weighing the Future - Bill Miller
  


• Agile-Friendly Test Automation Tools/Frameworks - Elisabeth Hendrickson
  


• WMI Provider Extensions in .NET 3.5 - Publishing Events and Advanced Topics - Sasha Goldshtein