Caffeinated Coder

Only 6 more days until Christmas and 5 more days until I start shopping. Here are some good reads to keep you busy while you procrastinate on your shopping.

1. Oxite – Oh Dear Lord Why?! - Oxite is blogging engine built on the new MS MVC Framework that Microsoft recently released as a sample app. The Alt.NET community in general has been ripping into it for being a hodge-podge of anti-patterns, but Karl Seguin’s post is perhaps the most brutal and detailed I’ve seen. It’s entertaining in a car-wreck sort of way. 
2. Solid State Drive: Enhance developers’ productivity – Patrick Smacchia posted some benchmark results that he did with his new solid state laptop and it kicked the crap out of his desktop. Santa, this is all I want for xmas…I promise I’ll stop trying to hack into the naughty-nice data warehouse…please?!?
3. Hanselminutes: Behind the Scenes – StackOverflow and Jeff Atwood – Part 2 – I listened to the first half of this episode on the way to work this morning and it was pretty entertaining. It was basically an out take of the conversation that took place after the interview with the StackOverflow team. I was particularly riveted by the follow up conversation on why StackOverflow was ignoring so many security best practices when it came to their physical architecture. Like Scott, I also come from a banking background and was really surprised when Jeff Atwood originally described their setup. To be fair, the shoestring budget of startups definitely places restrictions on what can realistically be done.

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