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title: "Some cool links"
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canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/1/3/some-cool-links.html"
published: "2004-01-03T22:05:00"
updated: "2004-01-03T22:05:00"
tags: [".Net Quotations", "Cool Articles", "Cool sites"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "While I promised myself I would not go down the linky road that Mike Gunderloy has managed to turn into an art form, here I go just the same. Jon Galloway points to useful classes and libraries posted by the C# team on…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
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---

# Some cool links

By Roy Osherove January 3, 2004 In [.Net Quotations](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-quotations), [Cool Articles](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-articles), [Cool sites](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-sites)

**Historical article** · Originally published January 3, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

While I promised myself I would not go down the linky road that [Mike Gunderloy](http://www.larkware.com/) has managed to turn into an art form, here I go just the same.

- [Jon Galloway points](http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2004/01/03/47380.aspx) to useful [classes](http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/team/code/libraries/default.aspx) and libraries posted by the C# team on MSDN. Cool.
- [Steve Eichert shows](http://dotnetjunkies.com/weblog/seichert/posts/5145.aspx) us an elegant way to do some basic (and not so basic) rule validation on objects. A nice idea. You should also read the comments on that post.
- [](http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2004/01/03.html#a6043)[Scoble](http://scoble.weblogs.com/) points to  [Andy King's Web Site Optimization site and book](http://www.websiteoptimization.com/).
- [Jason Salas](http://weblogs.asp.net/jasonsalas/archive/2004/01/03/47259.aspx) points to [www.googleguide.com](http://www.googleguide.com/) to learn the more advanced features available via google
- [Scott refers](http://scottwater.com/blog/archive/2004/01/03/IsDebug.aspx) to Jeff Key's small [IsDebug](http://www.sliver.com/dotnet/IsDebug/) utility, and recommends you check out [the rest of Jeff's babies](http://www.sliver.com/dotnet/). I agree. some neat stuff.
- [Rachel discovered](http://weblogs.asp.net/rreese/archive/2004/01/02/47242.aspx) a nice article: [Interactive Mapping Using SVG & ASP.NET](http://www.15seconds.com/issue/030630.htm)
- Ever since I read Joel's [Biculturalism](http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Biculturalism.html) article (Unix Vs. Windows programmer mentality) I've been wanting to get this book that Joel highly recommends: [The Art Of UNIX Programming](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0131429019/ref=nosim/iserializable-20) (or you can read the book [online](http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/))

## More in .Net Quotations

[All posts in .Net Quotations](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-quotations)

- Jan 8, 2004

    ### [The FxCop Blog](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/1/8/the-fxcop-blog.html)

- Jan 8, 2004

    ### [SOA reading list](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/1/8/soa-reading-list.html)

- Dec 31, 2003

    ### [Jan does cool stuff: nice article and cool extension to the winform data grid](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/12/31/jan-does-cool-stuff-nice-article-and-cool-extension-to-the-w.html)

- Dec 29, 2003

    ### [Risk Management](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/12/29/risk-management.html)


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