Monthly Archives: May 2008

links for 2008-05-31

Posted on May 31, 2008 by Michael Koby

Patterns in Practice: The Open Closed Principle (tags: patterns development c# oop msdn .net) Foundations of Programming – pt 8 – Back to Basics: Exceptions – Karl Seguin (tags: exceptions programming c#) Search – CodeBetter.Com – Stuff you need to … Continue reading →

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links for 2008-05-30

Posted on May 30, 2008 by Michael Koby

Fans Rip Metallica a New One | Listening Post from Wired.com (tags: blogidea) Webmonkey | Android_Comes_to_Life (tags: google android cellphone)

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The Death of Common Sense

Posted on May 29, 2008 by Michael Koby

Occasionally you get a really nice forwarded email that you can’t help but share with the world. Edit (2009-01-16): The original author, Lori Borgman, of this piece has commented with a link to the entire piece. Below is the obituary … Continue reading →

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links for 2008-05-29

Posted on May 29, 2008 by Michael Koby

b# – Screencast – Test Driving an Inventory Screen (tags: .net c# development screencast tdd) Why isn’t Jaiku discussed much as a serious Twitter competitor? I just took another look and I hate the UI. Plus it’s ssslllooowwww. – FriendFeed … Continue reading →

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Twitter, Uptime, & Product Reliability

Posted on May 28, 2008 by Michael Koby

Twitter has been pretty much unusable the last 2 weeks. Things started to get bad last week, and then over the weekend they had a database crash which has caused them to turn features off and have extremely slow performance since Friday. Continue reading →