LINKBLOG for January 12, 2009
Jan 12th, 2009 by AZuidhof
My First Agile Project: The Last Mile – Matt Grommes
Developers Estimate NOT Managers – Mohammad Azam
Motivation Techniques – J.D. Meier
Leadership 101: Want Respect? Give Respect – Jim Holmes
‘ Fear isn’t respect. Respect isn’t mandated. Fail to treat others with respect and you’ll never get it yourself. Give respect out freely and it will come back to you in spades ‘
Thoughts on professionalism and leadership occupy the brains of the .NET community as of lateTwo Tips On Preparing For The Cloud – Scott Watermasysk
Enabling success with opinionated architecture – Jimmy Bogard
Introducing the ASP.NET MVC (Part 5) – The Model – Nick Berardi
How Cory Doctorow Gets Writing Done – Kevin Purdy
Chad has a healthy rant on which you are cordially invited to join:
‘ We must take responsibility for improving the state of affairs in our profession and stop expecting Microsoft to do it for us ‘Topshelf – Dru Sellers
‘ So this is my quasi-new project. It is essentially the MassTransit.Host ripped out and in its own project ‘Ora, The Region Alternative – Greg Duncan
Why you should not use the ADO.NET Entity Framework – Lars-Erik Kindblad
Reading Jane Mayer’s “The Dark Side” – Charles Petzold
‘ In dragging this country into its darkest and most morally reprehensible era, the Bush Administration has done more damage to America than Osama bin Laden could possibly have imagined ‘
Having strong opinions about the Bush administration, couldn’t have said it more clearly than Charles does here40 Incredible Near-Infrared Photos – Smashing Magazine
Cool stuffC# Trivia – What? No Overflow? – Justin Etheredge
Beware of Fear-Driven Architecture (do you fear deployments?) – Jeffrey Palermo
‘ Pain can be a good indicator of a specific problem that needs to be solved. Beware of fear, however. Often, fear of something can color our technical decisions and cause us to suboptimize one part of our system or process ‘Threading Tips and Tricks – Robert Venables
Useful tips on debugging multi-threaded applications inside Visual StudioWhy Agile will Fail – Mike Cottmeyer
‘ Does your business really care if your team is transitioning to agile or continues to do waterfall? (…) What your business really wants is to deliver value to market faster than their competitors ‘
Interesting stuff, and I agree 100% with at least this quote!‘Carbon cost’ of Google revealed – BBC News / Technology
Two Google searches cost the amount of boiling a kettle of tea (you know, the British habit of cooking water and then boiling it)Better Projects: Pathway to Requirements failure – Craig Brown
‘ Sometimes (okay, usually) you can get stuck dealing with the stakeholders wants and needs ‘What’s Your Inner Voice Telling You? – Ian MacKenzie
‘(…) if I actually listened the voice inside, I realized it was telling me to trust the unknown. It was telling me to follow the path that made me afraid, excited, curious, elated ‘
In other words: following your heart will never bring regrets*** Ethics In Software Development: Pragmatism Over Dogmatism – Davy Brion
‘ (…) we sometimes need to be a bit more pragmatic about how we solve a problem ‘
Davy says how creating value for the customer is what counts. This is dear to my heart. I always see developers who only want to build a system that is technically perfect. But even a crappy system sometimes can generate *real* money. For the customer that is absolutely the only indicator: what does it get them. And please: I said “sometimes”, not “always”. In that case it may not make *you* a happy developer, but having grateful clients or customers can be worth gold!
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I have to agree with both you and Petzold.