Finds of the Week – December 23, 2008
.NET, C#, Programming
- I am in agreement with by Randall Hyde on The Fallacy of Premature Optimization.
- Dustin Andrews shared good tips on how to “get traction” in your team.
- Ranko shared his First Thoughts On MVC.NET.
- Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror)’s article The Great Browser JavaScript Showdown has benchmarks of Javascript performance of the top Internet browsers. I am a little surprised that IE7 came out at the bottom.
- Another interesting article from Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror), Digital Certificates: Do They Work?, questions the usefulness of digital certificates.
Software and Tools
- DAEMON Tools is one of the best CD/DVD emulator. Use it to mount those CD/DVD images you download from MSDN. Cost: $0.
And Now, Something Different
Researchers found that young chimpanzees have an extraordinary ability to remember numerals that is superior to that of human adults. Skeptical? Just take a look at the video.