LINKBLOG for December 17, 2007

• Resources for learning software development - Tim Stall
  Done most of them. Not 16. Should do 17 more and trying to fit 23 in somewhere


• The Art of Harvesting Abstraction - Max Pool
  ' The concept of “Abstraction Harvesting” helps put the order back in place so you can prevent both DRY and YAGNI '


• Did you know... how to insert a code snippet around a block of code? - Sara Ford
  new code snippet. learned.


• Delegates as an alternative to single-method interfaces - Kirill Osenkov
  If statements like these appeal to you this could give you some new insight in taking C# to a new level:
  ' Delegates - "interfaces on a member level" '


• 5 Tips for Getting the Most Out of Gmail IMAP - Chinh Do
  ' Gmail IMAP has been available for more than a month now. It’s been working great for me '


• Hints on how to componentize existing code - Patrick Smacchia
  More nice NDepend goodness


• New .NET Podcast - Rhonda Tipton
  Argh more podcasts... and this guy doesn't even manage to keep up with Hanselman and Carl Franklin :-)


• Using Asynchronous Sockets for Peer-to-Peer - Filipe Pereira
  


• Factory Pattern for User Controls - Sean Feldman
  


• December 16th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, VS, .NET, IIS7, WPF - Scott Guthrie
  you daily ASP.NET link fest


• Why the one-script build is the crucial component of agile - Mike Coon
  The spirit of Joel resounds in this post
  ' Can you build your application from scratch, on a clean build box, only using files and scripts that are in your version control system? If you answered yes, you're doing better than most '


• Agile Software Development Thoughts: Unconsciously Agile - Damon Poole
  via reddit comes this interesting piece on how some are practicing Agile without realising it. Here's a rebuff


• Did You Know? Type Member Lookup by Prefix - Omer van Kloeten
  Another nice tip you mght not know


• Writing Programs In The Jungle, For The Jungle - George P. Alexander
  A true story :-)
  ' Suddenly my evil spirit gives me an idea and takes control over me... again.... '


• Trial-and-error with a feedback cycle - Reg Braithwaite
  ' A common mistake when trying to be “Agile” (...) is to shorten milestones while still maintaining the idea that we have a plan for every milestone done up at the beginning of the project and we consider changing the plan to be a management failure '