LINKBLOG for April 5, 2008

• BizTech: Best Practices: Plan a Better Project
  How to prevent your multi million IT project from being tanked, based on agile principles
  via Johanna Rothman


• Plotting Your Career When You’ve Jumped Off the Corporate Ladder - Celine Roque
  ' Another way to define success is to think about the kind of work you want to do '


• OpenID Status Check: A Guide to Getting and Using Your OpenID - Sarah Perez
  Everything you will want to know about OpenID


• Debugging in WPF - WPF Disciples tips and tricks - WPF Disciples
  


• Google AdSense Advertising - eeech... - Rick Strahl's Web Log
  Rick has some issues with AdSense ' About 30-40% of the traffic generated - ie. the traffic that I pay for - comes from link farms, '


• Great article about how to trim down a Windows install for a Virtual Machine - Greh Hughes
  with the help of some freeware apps


• Unity 1.0, Microsoft's Dependency Injection, Inversion of Control (DI/IOC) Container, has RTW'ed - Greg Duncan
  


• Did you know... You can use Ctrl+Up and Ctrl+Down to move among the various control groups in the Toolbox - #187 - Sara Ford
  


• On Windows Workflow and Biztalk - Jan van Ryswyck
  I was looking into WF to see if it can replace some workflow app, but was having the same impression ' Windows Workflow (...) is too complex for solving the simple problems it was designed to solve and just too simple for solving complex problems '


• Early Tool Theory - Dave Laribee
  Thoughts about tools
  ' What's thrilling and cool about the right-sizing approach to tools is now you're better able to improve at the systemic level '


• Three Ways To Extend A Class - pompair
  level 100


• Analog Meter - Luca Bonotto
  


• CHAPTER 2: Agile methodologies - Dan Bunea
  Next part of evolving Agile "book", this one explaining XP, Scrum, Lean and all other agile abbreviations of importance


• Is UML on the way out? - Simon Brown
  Simon uses UML in some cases, and wonders whether you still use it *at all* in your design and modeling efforts


• Reviewing Article Submissions - Howard Dierking
  Howard is the first person to judge your MSDN Magazine submissions, today he explains the steps he takes to see if it's publishable