LINKBLOG for May 9, 2008

• Innovation Notes: May 09, 2008 - Jason Haley
  


• Why Does Crystal Reports ALWAYS kick my Axx - Part VII -- Merge Modules/GAC
  via Alvin Ashcraft
  Wanna see your devs jump under the table: ask if anyone knows Crystal :-)


• Algorithms in C#: Connected Component Labeling - Kirill Osenkov
  ' The goal is, given a 2D-matrix of colors, to find all adjacent areas of the same color, similar to the flood-fill algorithm used in Paint '


• Don't forget the BOM! - Tomas Restropo
  Of the many ways encodings in one of it's manifestations will try to bite you


• Having fun with project managers! (or: why you should lock your desktop) - Maarten Balliauw
  You can definitely have fun with more people than PM's this way...


• How to Make Late Software, Even Later - Casey Charlton
  ' if you do nothing else right on a project, get the fundamental architecture and framework right, early '


• A Method Should Do One Thing and One Thing Only - Dave Donaldson
  ' So if you find multi-action methods like CreateUpdateDeleteItem, refactor them appropriately. Your tests will thank you '


• Agile way of documentation!!! - Xebia
  Putting more multimedia in requirements gathering in an Agile setting can help speed thing up considerably


• How To Find the Top Twitterers in Your City - Sarah Perez
  OK, so if I start using it, it might better be efficient...


• Guide to the semantic web - Mads Kristensen
  Mads would like more people to get their semantics straight, so he wrote an extensive introduction


• Hanselminutes Podcast 110 - Microsoft Research: Spec# - Scott Hanselman
  ' What's Spec#? Currently it's a new language that is essentially extensions to C# 2.0 '


• Notifying the Windows Explorer about files in use - Lukasz Swiatkowski
  Neat idea really, have your app communicate with the rest of the OS in a not too complicated way


• Your API Fails, Who is at Fault? - Matthew Podwysocki
  ' Explicit DbC constructs give us a pretty powerful tool in terms of expressing our domain and our behaviors of our components ' And as I understand, the new Spec# might be of help here (maybe we should listen to Scott's podcast on this (above!)


• Enhancing mappers with LINQ - Jimmy Bogard
  translating function programming constructs to LINQ:
  ' Filter = Where
  Map = Select
  Reduce = Aggregate '