• informIT: Allocating Small Data Structures – discusses differences in memory allocation of millions of classes vs. structs
• The empty try block mystery
• How to Expose Your Collections Safely – using ReadOnlyCollections
• Simpler Code Add-In for Visual Studio 2008
• The cost of abstraction – Part 2 – Part 3
• Emacs is better than Visual Studio as a C# Development Tool?!!

Development In General

• stackoverflow.com – Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood come together
• 4 places for developers to make money
• Do you Really Want to Be a Development Team Leader?

Mapping

• KML is now an international standard

Misc

• Mike Swanson – Over One Million Wallpaper Visitors
• Silence Your Hard Drive with Elastic Suspenders
• The Economist: Power plays and Energy Monitor Comparison Chart

• CodePlex: NetFXHarmonics DevServer – a web server hosting environment built on WPF and WCF technologies that allows multiple instances of Cassini-like web servers to run in parallel
• Gallio Archimedes
• CodePlex: SlickCodeSearch – A WPF based application that lets you index and search through your source files (C#)
• Choosing a UI Pattern (MVC, MVP, and ASP.Net MVC)

Mapping & GPS

• Google on OSM Maps – compare Google Maps and OpenStreetMaps of Google HQ
• CodeProject: Writing Your Own GPS Applications: Part I
• Down to earth: Geotagging photos – instructions on geotagging your photos and also a link to geotag, a free geotagging software

Misc

• Look out VirtualPC and VMWare… VirtualBox is in the house
• Time.com’s Top 25 Blogs — the one-page-version
• Microsoft Surface videos

• FormatWith 2.0 – String formatting with named variables

Development In General

• Coding Horror – UI-First Software Development
• Mono 1.9 Released

GPS

• Garmin loses its way
• Navteq’s sale faces a detour
• MyTourbook – free software to visualize and analyze tours which are recorded by a GPS device, ergometer, bike- or exercise computer
• The state of Terminal 5
• Dash Express Hands-On Preview

Miscellaneous

• IconFX – a complete all-in-one solution for icon creation, extraction and editing (part of the Portable Freeware collection)
• Google Earth Can Make You Famous

.NET Development

• A New Pattern for Event Declaration
• Wrapping up nHibernate – Peter’s Gekko
• CodeProject: TIFF Editing Made Simple
• Timeline.NET – the most complete ASP.NET WebControl which wraps the MIT Simile Timeline API. Sample application is here
• Do we need [TestFixture] anymore?
• Open DBDiff – an open source database schema comparison tool for SQL Server 2005

Development In General

• How do I write my UI specs?

Misc

• GTranslator – A quick and easy translation interface to Google Translate.

• Random vs RNGCryptoServiceProvider: Know your RNGs
• LazyParser.NET – a light-weight late-bound expression parser compatible with C# 2.0 expression syntax
• http://xgeneration.tuy.be/ – online C# code generator for parsing XML documents

Development In General

• The Performance Woe of Binary XML and VTD-XML: The Future of XML Processing

• An In-Depth Look at C# 3.0 – (presentation)
• XmlDocument fluent interface
• WPF or WinForms, choose wisely
• Visual Studio Gallery – products & extensions for Visual Studio
• Philips Medical Systems’ C# Coding Standard
• Windows Vista Controls for .NET 2.0

Development

• Official EC2 Image for Selenium Grid 1.0
• CodeProject: OpenGL Geometric Primitives

Miscellaneous

• PicLens – 3D viewing of images from the web inside a browser
• Amazon Kindle – Hanselman’s review
• 20 Beautiful HDR Pictures
• Make3D – convert your image into 3d model

• Rhino Mocks 3.4 Released
• Data Structures and Algorithms (DSA) library – v0.4 released

Development

• Graphics Programming Black Book by Michael Abrash – available online

Miscellaneous

• The software awards scam – why you shouldn’t trust software awards

• ObjectMother – Easing Test Object Creation in XP

.NET Development

• Cosmos – operating system written in C#
• I’ve got the Iteration #1 Blues
• CodePlex.Diagnostics
• MoMA – The Mono Migration Analyzer (MoMA) tool
• MSDN Code Gallery
• “C# 3.0 Language Specification” ebook
• Using System.ComponentModel Attributes to your advantage

VisualStudio

• Visual Local History 2005 – add-in which provides the IDE with a local file history à la Eclipse

GPS

• Improving Position Measurement Accuracy In Consumer-Grade GPS Receivers – Part I

• Continuous Integration anti-patterns – Make your life with CI easier by learning what not to do

.NET Development

• A list of FxCop rules dropped in VS 2008 and new version FxCop

OpenStreetMap

• Historic OSM animation

General

• A List of Amazon S3 Backup Tools

• Source Control for Micro-ISVs
• Ultimate Boot CD for Windows
• Physics in Crysis – watch 3000 barrels fall

• NSTL – a port and adaptation of the C++ STL to the .NET world
• Sandcastle January 2008 Relase
• Sandcastle Help File Builder: 1.6.0.4 Production

Testing

• Tests + AutoMocking + IoC Container = ? – using IoC containers to create mocks automatically

General

• Top 50 Apps That Fit on a USB Drive