LINKBLOG for April 7, 2008

• The Case of the System Process CPU Spikes - Mark Russinovich
  It's been quite some time, but Mark has put up another case file


• Can a program lie to you the way a story or essay can? - Andy Oram
  ' (...) I found that programs are like stories and essays--usually in what they do wrong '


• Linq and Delayed execution - Derik Whittaker
  


• Internet Censorship - Bruce Schneier
  Seems like an interesting book
  ' Access Denied is a survey of the practice of Internet filtering, and a sourcebook of details about the countries that engage in the practice '


• Geek Speak: When Developers Attack! - Max Pool
  ' who can argue with someone when they have no clue what the other person is talking about? ' Guilty as charged. Our challenge is to *BE* understood instead of just speaking geek to impress. And learn how to be a true office leader...


• Radio TFS #4 - Team System 2008 Development Edition - Martin Woodward
  


• Security Principles - J.D. Meier
  Very interesting long article describing code security design principles


• Where is my BinaryReader.ReadFloat ? - Shahar Y
  Extension method adding the missing ReadFloat() method to BinaryReader


• How to Impress at Your Next Interview - Andrew Tokeley
  Nice list, as always passion being the No. 1 requirement for a developer, which is a good thing


• The new data types in SQL Server 2008 - Sergio Pereira
  


• The Monostate pattern - Justin Etheredge
  this pattern tries to be helpful in overcoming the problems associated with the Singleton pattern


• Agile Arguments, Part 2 - Background, and Arguments from Fear - Chad Myers
  Chad shares his view on Agile


• Linq Transactions using a custom base Datacontext - Michael Piccolo
  


• Conceptual Children: A powerful new concept in WPF - Dr. WPF
  


• Architecting LINQ To SQL Applications, part 8 - Ian Cooper
  


• Lists Of Microsoft's Fame And Shame - 2008 - Jon Davis
  Jon must have put a lot of effort in this really long list


• Generics, Inversion of Control and Repository - Anders Norås
  where we learn that Java's implementation of Generics is a bit different than C#'s


• TechEd Eilat 2008: Keynote and Brainteasers - Sasha Goldshtein
  Today's train-your-brain in .NET intricacies


• How to bulletproof the loops - Gunnar Peipman
  ' Try-catch overuse has these bad side effects ' While the author claims performance is one of them, that's was an issue back in the .NET 1.x days, not today. But his other point holds true: swallowing exception can bite you
  via Steve Pietrek