LINKBLOG for October 19, 2008
Oct 19th, 2008 by AZuidhof
‘ In time, it became clear to me that the Latin name dropping routine was just a game ‘
Pointers to ome interesting MVC stuff
Chris has some hands-on tips for those thinking about starting a group blogging project ‘ Step 10: Have Fun ‘
‘ Requirements may trickle into the tech team, but a big picture – maybe a business architecture – view needs to be established ‘
Report Builder for SQL Server 2008 RTM’s – Greg DuncanLast installment of this inspiring leadership series: we need to learn how to get good at throwing instead of catching ‘ This lesson is about knowing the importance of being proactive rather than reactive in a position of management or leadership ‘
‘ Not only do non-computable numbers exist, but in fact they are vastly more abundant than computable numbers ‘ Bit of math in this lesson from Igor
‘ The problem with whining is this: human beings like to be right. If you persuade yourself and your friends that times are really tough and that you’re bound to fail, you’ll probably do the things you need to do to make that true in the long run ‘ Wow, quote of the day this one. Obvious yet oft forgotten
‘ So before you venture off to create the next executive community be sure you can address these previous five points ‘ (read on…)
New screencast series, via Unhandled Exceptions blog
‘ This post will detail some first principles about source code control (SCC) and provide what I consider the most basic of practices that every dev should follow ‘
This is the one book that *every* developer should read (and own IMHO). Jason has a simple piece of advice: ‘ Seminal book. Buy it ‘
Be good to the Designer and it will treat you likewise
Jeremy is having a big series on StructureMap the past weeks, his Dependency Injection application
‘ If you want to make sure your job doesn’t go to anyone else (local or foreign**), then be better at it than anyone else. Don’t give the company a reason to look elsewhere and they won’t do it ‘
Cool things you can do wtih IKEA stuff
Don’t mistake the title, this is actually big praise for the responsiveness of the open source community: ‘ (…) that big company could never be half as effective or responsive as the community support that exists around projects like NHibernate, Castle, Moq, Rhino, xUnit ‘
Paul Graham’s latest essay came out somewhere last week (he doesn’t give an exact date). Very interesting point is that -contrary to popular belief – even in these days of crisis it might be a very good idea to start a company: there will always be a demand in the market, even if it’s in a downturn
If you’re only the least interested in ASP.NET MVC (now in beta!), then you should listen to this episode of Hanselminutes with Scott interviewing Jeff Atwood on StackOverflow.com, by far the most discussed ASP.NET MVC site so far
A word of warning: don’t even start downloading this if you’re still on XP (like me, and a whole bunch of other cavemen): this is Vista only stuff
‘ You see Joe Wurzelbacher has been slaving away for years putting in 10-12 hour days to make someone else money. Now he’s about to start his own company. Sound familiar? ‘
I take the gist of this article as being: “ALM == common sense” instead of another silver bullet (as some managers are eager to think)
Martha uses two lists to keep herself from staying focused and really getting things done in the course of a working day
Have the IDE recreate your designer file by using some simple trickery
‘ This is not a set of roles on your scrum team. It’s a taxonomy of behaviors that could apply to anyone on your team regardless of the role they may be filling ‘
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