LINKBLOG for October 7, 2008
Oct 7th, 2008 by AZuidhof
What America’s Got Talent Can Teach You About Managing - Max Pool
‘ What does America’s Got Talent have to do with management anyways? I’m so glad you asked! It is simple, really ‘Refactoring Exercise: The Single Responsibility Principle vs Needless Complexity - Jan van Ryswyk
‘ Besides good judgment, SRP is also about organizing complexity so that other developers/readers know where to look for it ‘Who says WPF/XAML isn’t ready for Line of Business apps? - Greg Duncan
Preventing third-party derivation, part two - Eric Lippert
Save Dataset contents to XML and Null Values - Derik Whittaker
‘ (…) this seems pretty trival, but If you do not understand how Xml and schemas work you could spin your wheels for a while trying to figure out why your column/data was not repopulated ‘Closed And Open Web Are Really Different - Abhijit Nadgouda
‘ Intranets or closed sites are treated more like desktop applications. The application can dictate its requirements on its users ‘Security Certifications - Petko Petkov
‘ The more people get certified the less valuable certifications are ‘ Great quote! While the article is on certs in the security field, this is of course equally applicable to software development.
via security.nl (Dutch)The world mocks too much - Patrick Kua
‘ The “purists” that I prefer to call “zealots”, are overwhelming in numbers, particularly in the TDD community (you do realise you can test drive your code without mocks?) ‘ Ah, OK. I see a direction the other way recently, from zealotry to a more pragmatic approach; which is a good thing. Zealots are difficult to handle by definition. Might be looking at another niche than Patrick does, thoughPerformance Appraisal Problems - John Hunter
‘ More and more people are willing to state the frustration with the performance appraisal process ‘Agile 2008 Post Roundup - Mark Levison
‘ I keep on stumbling across posts about Agile 2008 and thought it might be worth sharing ‘ Enormous collection of recent interesting Agile related articlesASP.NET MVC with NHaml - F# Edition - Matthew Podwysocki
To Motivate or Not to Demotivate - Jurgen Appelo
‘ I have been told a number of times now that trying to motivate people is a bad idea. Yet, I simply could not imagine this to be true (…) ‘ And then again: isn’t even the thought that you can not motivate someone too demotivating in itselfTake Automated Screenshots of Web Pages from Command Line - Amit Agarwal
Horrible - Rands In Repose
‘ Putting big trust on someone else, you’re solving three problems: you’re increasing the chance you’l get your project done, you’re building a strong team (…) ‘Software Is Hardwork: BUG: VS.NET Debugger and Files with Tick (`) Marks
Never understood this tick at all, in all honesty, but it seems to have it’s usesHow to Use IM Without Ruining Your Productivity - Celine Roque
Tried several times to use IM more intense. Didn’t work. It is handy for keeping in touch with the family and to chat with friends, but in a business situation I find that either people don’t want to use it, don’t use it al all, or are outright opposed to IM. Not a good basis to improve team productivity and internal communicationPack half of what you think you need - (37signals)
‘ The #1 piece of advice you hear from frequent travelers: Pack light. Lay out everything you think you need. Then put away half ‘ Equally applicable for us
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