LINKBLOG for January 8, 2008

• Value Type Parameters Are Still Value Types, Even in a Lambda Expression - Steven Harman
  


• Software Testing Separation of Concerns - D. P. Bullington
  This piece goes into detail on the different levels of testing, from syntactical all the way up to acceptance testing


• If you aren't having fun, then don't do it - Justin Etheredge
  if your day job is no fun, then find that little special project related to it that you can indulge yourself into and learn from: AFAIC you always should be looking for new things to learn


• Finding Names that are Anagrams of Each Other in C# 3.0 - Dare Obasanjo
  


• Introducing 'Caliburn': An MVC/MVP WPF Framework - Rob Eisenberg
  For those who like new frameworks


• Messing around with various ORMs - David Tchepak
  If you would like to start messing around yourself one of these days with, say, SubSonic, NHibernate and the like, there is good news over here: David has already done the research


• Understanding Common Type System in .NET - Suresh Kumar Goudampally
  You're supposed to know this stuff, but if you don't read it


• Two TFS 2008 Pearls - David Starr
  Some of the new TFS 2008 features, e.g. CI is built right in now


• Language Roots - Evan Hoff
  Most C# developers would say it's a descendant of C++, but is that the case? Did we really get our heritage from C and C++ '


• PRIVACY ALERT: Have More Than One GMail Account? You are Exposed! - Omer van Kloeten
  A warning showing how complicated life becomes in the online world


• Model View Presenter using Dependency Injection and Threading support - Mike Peretz


• Versioning Controlled Build - Julijan Sribar
  Too big too read, but if you want to automate your versioning in Visual Studio a bit (more), you might have a look


• Finds of the Week - January 6, 2008 - Chinh Do
  A lot of goodies over at Chinh


• Archive 8 Ways to Optimize Your Time in MS Outlook - Samuel Dean
  simple tips like this can make life easier for some of us...
  ' Set reminders for yourself by right-clicking a message, pointing to Follow Up, and then clicking Add Reminder '
  via Jason Haley


• 10 reasons why I chose MySQL over MSSQL2005 Express
  ' as the preferred database engine for my web sites '
  Not sure if all agree with this but ease of management is certainly a point there at least if you have a relatively simple site


• How to delete a label in TFS 2005 / 2008 - Pieter Gheysens
  Quick tip


• Bill Gates’ Last Day - Kevin Dangoor
  Sky-rocketing funny, if that's a word
  via Jason Haley


• Designing your own agile process - Part 1 - Ade Miller
  More cure for Not-Invented-Here disease seems to be on it's way with a series of posts at Ade's:
  ' Here’s our conclusion on how to design your own (agile) process or methodology from scratch:
  DON’T! '


• First release of my 'shimmer' project - John Graham-Cumming