Arjan’s World

Back from holidays. A refreshing 3 weeks of camping on the camping Menina in Slovenia with the family. Now back to online life, trying to find out whatever happened the past few weeks. Apart from a gaping DNS security incident, an escaped spam king killing himself and taking his family in the process, and some people claiming blogging is dead (it is not) nothing out-of-the-ordinary – but I might have missed something skimming very quickly through 4000+ posts Oh, and stackoverflow is in beta (see if I’m on time for the beta). Found no-one going to Microsoft so far, which was in fashion before the holidays…

Due to both IE and Firefox dying on me all the time (!!) this is only a partial list

• The Philosophies of Work: A Conversation with Derek Sivers of CD Baby – Tim Ferriss
• Architect always implements – Michael Stal
  ‘ By implementing you will earn the respect of developers, while keeping in touch with the implementation at the same time ‘
• Disciplined Agility – Mo Khan
  Book review
• DIY Pegboard Home Network Wall – Gina Trapani
  Cool sfuff!
• The Five Things You Need to Know About Finding the Work You Love – Leo Babauta
• Coaching Self Organizing Teams – Mark Levison
• People Over Process? – Glen Alleman
  ‘ No process is going to fix the situation of unqualified people – period, end of discussion ‘
• If You Want To Write, Write. Don’t Talk! – Abhijit Nadgouda
  ‘ Surprisingly, mistakes will instil more confidence in you than anything else ‘
• The user will see it – Mike Hall
  Actually, every messagebox put in front of the user – except during software installs – is one too many
• A Theory of Everything for Software Development – Jurgen Appelo
  ‘ Having such a theory available as a manager, it would be much easier to understand when to apply which solution under which circumstances ‘