LINKBLOG for April 18, 2008

• patterns & practices WCF 3.5 Security Guidelines Now Available - J.D. Meier
  


• Testing a Membership Provider - Tony Rasa
  


• My Favorite Tools List for Developers - Matthew M
  Published a week ago, but maybe you haven't seen it yet


• Use Twitter To Stay On Top Of The .NET Programming News - Dot NET Sample Chapters
  It you Twitter, here is a list of .NET people who you'll want to follow


• An Algorithm for Weighted Linear Regression - Walt Fair, Jr.
  Which makes me think back to a long time ago when I was a statistician for some time


• Small Decisions Sometimes Cause Big Hacks - Brad Wilson
  ' As such, everywhere that we use reflection, you’ll find a try/catch like this, eradicating the less-than-useless TargetInvocationException from the exception stack '


• A Naive String Comparer - Pete O'Hanlon
  ' A class to perform a "naive" comparison of two chunks of text to see if they look to be the same '


• Selecting all the controls of a specific type, the (built in!) LINQ way - Rick van den Bosch
  You can get a selection of basically anything IEnumerable using LINQ, so also a set of Controls on a form


• Work Avoidance Behavior - Pamele Poole
  O procrastination! While maybe of good to normal people, you're the curse of developers from all over...


• MyOpenID for Your Domain - The Easiest Way to Use Your URL as an OpenID - Marshall Kirkpatrick
  ' The service makes it remarkably easy for anyone to create OpenID accounts through their own domain, using the MyOpenID authentication service '


• Everything that's bad for you is suddenly good for you! - Leon Bambrick
  ' we now (maybe) see with google BigTable that in fact this is the future: this is faster and actually, sorry Jenkins, your rdbms is dead '


• Why everyone should write a framework and never use it - Jaisen Mathai
  Yes! Writing code only to learn, and then just throw it away is enourmously helpful to really gain understanding of concepts of already existing software.
  And a tip: use something like SnippetCompiler to test your code instead of VS (easier to throw away)


• Why Managing Small Projects is Harder - Jurgen Appelo
  depends on the number of projects you manage at the same time


• Prototypes of the flammable sort - Mike Hall
  A plea for good ol' paper prototyping


• 10 Gmail Tips and Time-Savers - Samuel Dean
  Really: if you're in GMail on a daily basis do spend some time to tweak it. You'll be glad you did


• 5 Tips to Professional Development & Career Advancement - Travis Wright
  I agree with on important conclusion: don't expect to do everything within the boss's time. Really advancing your career will take a bit more effort. No free lunch etc.


• Showing the complete range of choices in a grid - Jan Miksovsky
  


• CHAPTER 3 (continued) : 3.4 Collaborating - Dan Bunea
  


• How does the GC work and what are the sizes of the different generations? - Tess
  Thourough and low level article on the Garbage Collector via Yuan Jian