LINKBLOG for October 12, 2007

• Friday Favorites - Scott Cate
  ..dev tools


• The Weekly Source Code 7 - Scott Hanselman
  


• *** Uncommon C#.NET Keywords - Thomas Holloway
  


• Top 5 Application Security Vulnerabilities in Web.config Files - Sanjeev Sharma
  


• A program manager should be an architect - Peter van Ooijen
  


• Are you right- or left-brained? - Greg Hughes
  Hmm, it started counter clockwise for me, then after some staring the other way around. Only after looking somewhere else for ten seconds it came back counter clockwise...


• Role-Based Security in a Hierarchical Environment - B. Geertsema, The Code Project
  ' The development of a security framework in SQL Server 2005 that is role- and context-based and hierarchy aware '


• ALT.NET Recap: Front and center, let's talk constructively about Mort - Jeremy D. Miller
  OK OK, but from the comments comes some insight: ' Despite how obvious it is to people like you, to most programmers I run into - their clueless about TDD, IoC, NHibernate, SOC, etc '


• Don't Forget The Caret^ and the $tick - Leon Bambrick
  regex is hard to grasp, but in the end you always benefit if applied correctly


• Adactio: Journal - The password anti-pattern
  What we should ask ourselves more: ' Do we blindly follow the dictates of clients looking to “add value” to their applications even when we know that the long-term effect is corrosive '


• What do we mean by software design? - Russell Wilson
  


• Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts - Friday Reflections
  


• Some Rails Misconceptions - Matt Berther
  Warning, f- word 4 times here


• A Lesson in Control Simplicity - Jeff Atwood
  


• When Databases Lie: Consistency vs. Availability in Distributed Systems - Dare Obasanjo
  


• Use reflection to compare the properties of two objects - sides of march
  nice tip