Monday, Monday….

.NET

Scott Hanselman talks about tools he uses to compare binary .NET assemblies. Great to figure out what changed without doing a source diff.

Chris Sells is collecting the best online resources for WPF. If you have a good one, go see him.

Community

Sam Gentile vents against the lack of Vista power-user edition. he had to go a tweak his new machine endlessly to display extensions, avoid all the modal pop-ups, copy files(?!), etc…

Sam has also put out New and Notable 157. Interesting links on Agile and also RESTful design.

Scott Bellware has a good piece on Marie Antoinette’s take to the software maintenance mantra of “read the code“. Code should be easy to read and communicate the intent.  I find myself struggling with that sentiment versus the actual pressure of delivering a deeply embedded system in a short time frame.  Sometimes, I long leave embedded behind and luxuriate in the plush .NET environment of VS 2005.
Design

Larry O’Brien talks about the lessons history holds that could be applied toward the looming parallel processing crisis.

The prolific Scott has an entry on Test-Driven Architecture. I’m thinking it is complimentary with Roy Osherove’s Testable Object Oriented Programming.
Testing

Scott Bellware talks about how the organization of their unit tests has changed. They used to have 2 projects: fast tests (aka unit tests) and slow tests (aka integration tests). No more!