LINKBLOG for December 13, 2007

• What's your favorite Domain Specific Language? - Tim Stall
  


• Test Driven Rewrites - WarpedJavaGuy
  Showing another way to introduce test in an existing code base than you might expect. Java oriented post


• Most of the things in life are simple - Friday Reflections
  


• Best C# Blogs - Timm Martin
  Nice overview of a couple quality C# (and some other) blogs


• New Release: Guidance Explorer is Now on MSDN - J.D. Meier
  


• Asserts are NOT evil - Greg Young
  


• Reflecting on Generics - Derek Viljoen
  


• Unit testing in Visual Studio 2008 tips - Dennis van der Stelt
  


• Subversion and TortoiseSVN tips and tricks - David Vidmar
  


• Ask Me How Much I Hate XCode and C - Andrew Wulf
  ' No matter what language or tools you choose they better meet that requirement (for you) or try something else. '


• Technical Debt Decision Making - Steve McConnell
  ' Bottom line: When facing the prospect of taking on technical debt, be sure to generate more than two design options. Don't oversimplify technical debt decision making to just the two extremes '


• Thinking Big at the Google Scale - discipline and punish
  Thoughts on Enterprise Software
  ' While many products tout themselves as "extensible platforms" the reality is that what many vendors actually mean by "extensible platform" is the freedom to purchase and plug in other products from their portfolio '


• Is it 80% and 20% or is 20% too high... - Jay Kimble
  On Jeff, Phil and Pithy Catch Phrases:
  ' the heart of the matter is a human problem. Don't believe me? '


• Has privacy limited our possibilities? - Mads Kristensen
  ' So, I gave up my little venture, looked longingly at the moon from my window and dreamed of a world where privacy restrictions and law suits don’t conflict with my geeky nature '
  Sigh -


• Dates, Time Zones, and .NET - Robtx
  On the complexities and intricacies related to DateTime, ' There are quite a few time zones and even small regions within a given zone. Some don't use daylight saving time at all '


• Announcing 22books - James Avery