LINKBLOG for May 8, 2008

[TWITTERED] Seeing (almost) the whole world having a seemingly good time on Twitter, I today decided to give it a try --> see sidebar, or my Twitter profile. First impressions are: this is overflowing with more and sometimes less interesting content. What's your opinion (via Twitter maybe?): is this Blogging / Communication / Chatting 2.0, or is it completely over the top?

• A .NET Cryptography Primer, Part Four - Will
  


• Consolidating and Version-controlling Development Settings - Terry Thibodeau
  Cool alternative use of SVN ' When all is said and done, you should now have a nice, centralized, version-controlled Visual Studio (and associated application) settings location '


• 3 Places To Keep Your Pocket Code (Besides Your Pocket) - Max Pool
  ' I have seen people attempt to organically grow “reusable” libraries from these snippets in the forms of assemblies and jars. I highly frown upon this practice '


• Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge: A Chinese DIY Multi-Feature Malware - Dancho Danchev
  The message here is that hackers - just as the rest of the software/IT world - are also evolving, and we should keep an eye on them


• Software Architect 2008 - Simon Brown
  Seems like an interesting set of sessions


• Mock Framework Benchmarks - Aaron Jensen
  


• MVC Storefront, Part 9: The Shopping Cart - Rob Conery
  


• LINQ Gotcha - Bill Ryan
  


• Inbox Hero - Charles Miller
  Inbox Here, Inbox Zero, as long as you keep control over your inbox, things are OK. As soon as I see people with 100+, or even 1000+ (unread!) emails in their inbox, I know they're beyond help...


• Becoming a Jedi - Part 1 of N - James Kovacs
  streaming ReSharper goodness


• What arrays and pointers have in common - or - Why arrays start at zero - Karl Seguin
  


• The Bookshelf - James Kovacs
  Agile book list


• Mythbusting - Collective Code Ownership - Mark Levison
  


• Keep Your Eyes on the True Goal - Steve Rowe
  focus on the destination not on the trip, nice comparison


• Perfectly Solid Learning - The Braidy Tester
  


• London's Cameras Don't Reduce Crime - Bruce Schneier
  What sane people knew all the time (that mounting cameras all over the place doesn't help a bit) is now finally acknowledged by British police themselves


• One encoding to rule them all - Chip
  Seems like Unicode is taking over the web; at least being the no. 1 encoding now


• Did you know… You can add references to your solution directly from the Object Browser - #210 - Sara Ford
  


• Patch Window Shrinking - Semi-Automated Reverse Engineering | Darknet - The Darkside
  via Jason Haley


• Question: How do you stay up to date? - Jason Haley
  Good question, as it becomes more and more a second job to remain relevant in this industry - or am I just getting old :-)


• Social Networks/Blogging and Self-Improvement - Rhonda Tipton
  Yes. Doing nothing with your career leads to knowledge rot (as in "bit rot")


• That Big Project and Your Relationship - Pamela Poole
  ' The moral of the story is that if you’re an entrepreneur or you’re working on a major project, it is essential to keep your partner on the same page you’re on '


• Google Translate Becomes the Best Free Online Translator - Ionut Alex Chitu
  


• Do you really need a data access layer with LINQ? - YTechie