Arjan’s World

O, by the way: Bill Gates sent me a letter today informing me that Windows 7 will arrive somewhere around 2010. Just so you know

• Scrum Sprint 1, Week 2 – A rolling stone gathers no moss (aka the Scare Factor of having a timeboxed integration) – Greg Duncan
• Features Do Not Exist (Only Benefits) – Max Pool
  Happy to see Max continue his video messages. This time a good example of why we ‘ need to quit thinking and speaking in terms of features, and start talking to our clients in terms of the benefits that they will gain ‘
• Separation of Concerns by example: Part 2 – Jimmy Bogard
  Jimmy has the next installment in his explanation of SOC
• 10 Tools Which I Still Use, Even I Have VSTS 2008 – Mohammad Ashraful Alam
• Does our addiction on visual tooling harm the rate of innovation in the .Net world? – Jeremy D. Miller
  Coming right to ou from the Entity Framework Mafia, Jeremy has another post-with-a-message
• Foundations of Programming Ebook – Karl Seguin
  Karl offers his ‘foundations’ series of posts in EBook form. Cool!
• Stay On Top of Your Tweets with Tiny Twitter – Scott Blitstein
• Users Never Read Manuals – Mike Borozdin
  ‘ the “paradox of the active user” stating that users never read manuals, instead they just start using the thing (software or hardware) immediately ‘ We told them to RTFM one time too many, and now they refuse to R the FM anymore as a matter of principle
• How Risky Is Agile? – Jared Richardson
  ‘ Agile gives you this understanding in just a few iterations. Waterfall gives you this much later in the product cycle. Sometimes months or years into a large project ‘ So what is risk anyway?
• Learn 101 Photoshop Tips & Techniques in a 5 Minute Video – Amit Agarwal
  If you need to improve your once l33t but now rusty dezign skillz
• 10 personality traits of a highly effective independent consultant – Chip Camden
  Who doesn’t want to be a consultant? Chip has some cool tips to see if you’re the right person. And you know what’s funny: you *will* click this link, as scientific evidence shows that ‘top 10…’ posts stimulate the eye-mouse coordination
• Big Annoucement: Information Card Foundation – Identity Woman
  News from the Identity movement
• Models of PM Success – Glen Alleman
  ‘ All this soft side of Project Management is way overrated ‘
• Decomposing UML – Jason McDonald
• So… You want your code to be maintainable – Uncle Bob
  ‘ So how do we keep the design from rotting? How do we make sure we can migrate the design as the system changes? Simple. Tests.’
  
• Dissecting Linq Expression Trees – Part 1 – Justin Etheredge
  and part 2
• Developing Skills That Last – Jeremy Jarrell
• Customer Service Is Not Rocket Science, Part Two – Eric Lippert
  ‘ Will he and Ms. Otterbach continue to attempt to tag team a former customer into submitting to their bureaucratic policy machinery ‘ Eric has an exciting customer experience with one mr. Throatwobbler
• Customize your TFS Template – Kirstin Juhl
  A Howto
• Salesforce.com touts Web 3.0 as platform as a service – Paul Krill
  Salesforce claims the ‘Web 3.0′ . Via Webwereld.nl (Dutch)
• The Margin Manifesto: 11 Tenets for Reaching (or Doubling) Profitability in 3 Months – Tim Ferriss
• The Coffee Mug Affair – Rands In Repose
  On the liquid stuff that helps us through the day ‘ I’ll cut to the chase: whole bean + grind at home + French press = FTW ‘
• Dependency Injection, or how to make simple concepts sound difficult – Jani Hartikainen
  ‘ Sounds complex? Yep. Is it complex? No. You might’ve even used it without knowing about the name ‘
• The Essential Programming Language Toolbox | GrokCode
  ‘ knowing what is going on under the covers will make you a better programmer ‘ Of course; OTOH I don’t think that without “knowing” C – I know I don’t – you can’t be a good developer
• 5 Common-Sense Practices Dev Teams Should AVOID – Hamid Shojaee
  ‘ 2) Follow Established Procedures or Processes
  … Well it might be a good thing, until your best team members start to feel as though their hands are tied behind their backs and if it wasn’t for some stupid process ‘
  Nice list!
• Continuous Integration: Begin Again – AccuRev blog
  ‘ Tools are nice, tools make a good impetus for change, but change solves your problems ‘ Ahh, finally a subtile answer to the tools-tools-tools problem: there must be process involved otherwist all the tools in the world won’t help you a bit
• Selling colleagues on progressive enhancement – Brian Dillard
  ‘ I’m not talking about selling the client or the business team. I’m talking about selling one’s fellow developers ‘ Cooperation of your peers is key when changing the development process