LINKBLOG for October 17, 2008
Oct 17th, 2008 by AZuidhof
Sorting Algorithms: The Gnome Sort - OJ Reeves
OJ is back with a fresh installment in his sorting adventures. This time the well-known and time tested Gnome Sort (to be honest: I do know what a gnome is, but the sort was unfamiliar…)Resumes Are Mostly Useless - Andrew Wulf
Andrew is able to get to the point here really quickly ‘ If you look for a job, you must have a resume. If you look for employees, you must assume that all resumes you see are full of lies (since many if not most of them are). Therefore what is the point? ‘Charcoal Visual Studio Settings - Dave Donaldson
More news from the dark background fanclubI got kicked out of the cool kid’s club this morning - Jeremy D. Miller
Another lesson learnt: ‘ Don’t throw away a solution just because it’s uncool. Maybe it even means that you should even reconsider techniques that were stupidly abused and misused before ‘Layoffs and Creativity: Are You Expelling the Innovators? - Bob Sutton
Bob addresses those managers making plans for layoffs in the ongoing economic crisis. Think there are a lot of lessons to be drawn. Bob sees that often the most inspiring and creative people are the ones forced to leave the company, leaving an army of clones behind. He points out several things that can be done to prevent thisUrawaza: Secret Everyday Tips and Tricks from Japan - Lisa Katayama
Urawaza: the latest Japanese word we should add to our Agile vocabulary?Find Words You Were Thinking About But Can’t Remember Anymore - Amit Agarwal
‘ Do you sometimes struggle to recall words that you’ve been thinking about all day but can’t remember them now? ‘ Handy web2.0 toolThe 7 Tenets of the Connected Analyst - Jeremiah Owyang
‘ Social technologies allow individuals to connect and get what they need from each other rather than from institutions -ncluding analyst firms ‘
Some basic advice to become a “trusted source” as an individual worker in a crazy world, rather than a BigCoLife is Upstream - Leon Bambrick
‘ Here, safely sheltered amongst the comforting tangle of stored procedures, the Business-Logic can begin to spawn its own generation of subtle bugs ‘ w00tThe Agile Recession Challenge - De-Bureaucratize!!! - Mishkin Berteig
Interesting take on how to turn the current crisis to your advantage: ‘ This is the perfect time to be in business. This time of crisis can actually be the opportunity that your business desperately needed, you just didn’t know it ‘Memory Access Patterns are Important - Anthony Trudeau
ASP.Net MVC Goes Beta! - Troy Goode
One of the many places bringing yesterday’s biggest news (yeah, I’m good in bringing you old news!). I just hope that you are also one day behind, just like me, dear reader.
‘ There are several issues that lead me to come up with an alternative for this situation of getting all files in a directory ‘
‘ While I realize refactoring into really small methods can pose a psychological barrier for many, it’s a truly useful technique with benefits beyond testability ‘
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