LINKBLOG for March 28, 2008

• Did you know... You can view an error's help documentation directly from the Error List? - #182 - Sara Ford
  


• Is agile only for elites? - Hans-Eric Grönlund
  ' I think it’s possible to build rigid software with little upfront design, a readiness for change, rapid feedback and customer collaboration. The problem I see is that it demands a lot more from us developers '


• March 28th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, Silverlight, .NET - Scott Guthrie
  


• Range variables - is it just me that thinks they're different? - Jon Skeet
  


• Discovering Windows PowerShell - Alex Mueller
  


• Automation FTW - Sergio Pereira
  he ' If your work cycle looks like this: Save, Build (wait), Debug (wait), Click, Click, Click, Type, Type, Click, Verify result, OK; someone needs to introduce you to a unit testing tool immediately '


• WPF 3D : Part 1 of n - Sacha Barber
  ' Excursions and deviations into the dark recesses of my mind '


• Design Principles - OO Design
  5 wellknown principles, but it doesn't hurt to review them again


• Anatomy of a Project Failure: Corporate Culture and Lessons Learned - Mike Desjardins
  ' The culture of my former employer was forced to change suddenly to support new business, and it ultimately resulted in failure '
  Follows an wonderful explanation how (as we see time and time again) a business messes up an important project


• Plan For Today, And Plan Correctly For Tomorrow - Scott Sehlhorst
  Also plan for toady and tomorrow cause ' In The Long-Run, We Are All Dead '


• MSBuild 3.5 just made my day - Loren Halvorson
  If you also have trouble copying readonly files around with MSBuild, this is for you


• Add System Menu Items to WPF Window using Win32 API - Chris Pietschmann
  OK, this is a way to have your WPF app look more like a WinForm, but personally I'd rather get rid of all Win32 API calls and just use what's natively available in the Framework


• ReSharper is smarter than me - Oren Eini
  In which it is proven that (the indispensable!) ReSharper suggestions must not always be followed exactly, we have the obligation to keep thinking ourselves too


• I {entity} Unicode - Jeff Atwood
  If you don't get Jeff's joke immediately, you are strongly advised to *at least* read Joel's classic article on Unicode (the first of Jeff's links)