LINKBLOG for January 5, 2009
Jan 5th, 2009 by AZuidhof
What Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers can teach us about interface design – Joshua Porter
Context is Fluid Social Media Principle #7 – Jim Benson
How to become a better programmer – J Rasmusson
Accounting for opportunity and cost – Bernie Thompson
Free online MIT & Washington University computer science courses – David Brabant
How to Make Decisions Under Pressure – Joel Falconer
‘ Without a way to switch into an objective mindset — or at least a process to deal with decisions objectively — you could wind up making a bad decision that’ll bite you for years to come ‘Download and Print the 2009 Compact Calendar – Gina Trapani
What Is All the Fuss About How You Can Write DSLs in Lisp? – Craig Andera
Language Envy – hash literals – Sergio Pereira
New Generation workers and Email – Craig Bailey
‘ How can we overcome the email mindset? ‘ About the Millenial Generation (the what?) getting grown up, and having their own specific demands. Makes one feel old suddenly, sighCultivating a Writing Habit – Chris Brogan
‘ First stop in learning how to write more, write better, write effectively is to read. Read all the time. Read for hours a day if you can. Can’t find the time? Kill your television ‘
I’ve not literally done the last step, but am close. One of the biggest time savers you can imaging. Certainly compared to the avg. # hours people watch TV hereLeadership 101: My Take On Fundamentals – Jim Holmes
‘ This would be in addition to the utter failure we see with companies failing to ensure their corner office types are leaders with a positive impact instead of a negative one ‘
Jim starts a new series. Here is already the next installment Leadership 101: Don’t Screw With My CrewFun With Named Formats, String Parsing, and Edge Cases – Phil Haack
10 things to embrace in 2009 – Jimmy Bogard
Are You Creating Micromanagement Zombies? – Jeff Atwood
‘ Do you manage other programmers, in any capacity? Then take Kathy Sierra’s quiz (…) ‘
and be surprised!Debunking C# vs C++ Performance – Robert Nystrom
Showing how easy it is to put us barking on the wrong tree when doing comparisons between languages. You need to know *exactly* what you’re comparing before making claims. Good analysisUsing Your Own URL as Your OpenID – Jeff Atwood
Jeff shows how easy it it to use your own domain to act as a delegate for OpenID. This way you can enter *any* website that supports OpenIDNHibernate Profiler Review – Davy Brion
Davy has extensively tested this promising new tool that shows you how NHibernate works under the hood*** What’s in a Job Title – Rod Paddock
Great post about how practicing Agile is so much more than saying ‘we’re doing agile’: it’s a complete way of life….
‘ Any Mort i.e (NOOB) with $500.00 and the ability to hit the keyboard with his/her forehead can become a software engineer overnight. “Yesterday I couldn’t spell it. Now I are one”. This has got to stop ‘Mind Your Freeze and Q’s – Charles Petzold
‘ Whenever the subject of performance in the Windows Presentation Foundation comes up, the issue of Freezables is likely to be mentioned ‘BabySmash Receives Coveted ‘Da’ Award – Russell Ball
‘ Actually, it was more like a 5 Da’s punctuated by a steady stream of drool ‘
How to Target Multiple .NET Frameworks – Rinat Abdullin
‘ Here are the tricks that are known to help in sharing codebase between different Microsoft .NET Frameworks (i.e.: Silverlight 2.0, .NET 3.5, .NET 2.0) ‘News from me, about everything and anything – Benny Michielsen
10 Things I’ve learned in 10 years at Microsoft – Omar Shahine
Why Should I Follow Your Rules? (The Subsidiarity Principle) – Jurgen Appelo
Clear explanation of this principle. Might not always be practical in all teams, though it gives me something to think about
‘ This means that I can follow my own rules for writing unit tests, unless the team can prove that it is more effective to establish centralized rules for this at the team level ‘Using extension methods on null objects – Sebastien Lambla
When is a story done? – Mark Needham
‘ For this post I’m interested in ‘done’ in terms of when we count the story towards our points total ‘Field level security using ASP.NET MVC and Rhino.Security – Bart Merchtem
What to Wear to an Interview – John Hunter
‘ for the most important point for manager’s, from this post, if you evaluate software developers on how they dress please quit and go work in some other line of work ‘
Wonderful piece of advice!
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