LINKBLOG for January 20, 2009
Jan 20th, 2009 by AZuidhof
Papers: Readings in Distributed Systems – Todd Hoff
There are plenty of niches left – Chris Spagnuolo
‘ You think there are no niches left for you. Well, maybe you’re just not thinking hard enough. There is a niche for everything. Even for you’re world ‘You’re not a real dev unless you’ve read this book… [timstall.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com]
‘ I think it’s far more effective to offer positive criteria like “developers on this team must be fluent in design patterns, automated testing, and writing clean code”, as opposed to exclusive criteria like “you must have read book X” ‘
Yes, zealotry is never a good idea. And while the referenced GoF Design Patterns book is a classic one from which many people say that you *must* have read it, I also confess I didn’t. However, I read the Head First compilation, which is more on top the latest developments. Does this make me a bad person? Not at all, I’d say. Come and meet me, I don’t bite
How Do You Hire for Innovation? – Johanna Rothman
‘ I was working with a client recently, and one of the managers declared, “What we really need are a bunch of innovators. All of our open reqs–let’s hire some innovators.” ‘Strategic clarity and innovation – Jeffrey Phillips
Pair Programming vs. Code Review – Chris Sims
The Art of Interviewing – Dave Donaldson
Tip No 1 – don’t be afraid and … ‘ Hire People Smarter Than You ‘Enterprise Service Buses (ESBs) Drive SOA Adoption – Part 3 – Sam Gentile
How code generation breaks YAGNI- Laila Bougria
Don’t hire a programmer if they don’t code for fun – JD Conley
Top ten reasons managers become assholes – Scott Berkun
‘ (…) here’s the first in a series of posts about assholes ‘Which Path To Follow? – Davy Brion
‘ Should we just listen to what Microsoft recommends? Hmm, no. Should we blindly follow the supposed ALT.NET leaders? Please don’t ‘
As always the truth is somewhere in the middle. Extremism is never a good ideaPeter works on the web! -Before I sign, can I see your codebase? – Peter Eysermans
It’s always a good idea to get to know a possible employer as much as within your possibilityMentoring Other Developers – Jeremy D. Miller
It’s 2009 already — where’s my damn internet-based IDE?? – Leon Bambrick
‘ (…) there was this thing i’d discovered called httpWebRequest… and with it’s power, the Online IDE seemed inevitable ‘Software Engineering Series Part 7 – Core Metrics – D.P. Bullington
‘ The following represents a brain dump of some core metrics in four key areas of management ‘UI Patterns for WPF – Christopher Bennage
YAPES: Problem Seven, Part 2 – Dustin Campbell
Unit Testing File I/O Operations – Jeremy Jarrell
Linq and TimeSpan – Security Briefs – Keith Brown
‘ Long live Linq ‘Pipes within Pipes: A 2 Minute Yahoo Pipes Video Demo at Fast Wonder Blog – Dawn Foster
Cut Down on Office Clutter with a Record Retention Policy – Jason Fitzpatrick
‘ Businesses have policies for how long records and paperwork are to be held—and you should, too. Cut down on the clutter in your office by establishing rules for handling paperwork ‘Organizational culture: The Process Dimension – Joel Plaut
‘ Organizational culture is the personality of the organization, and as in people, personality is deeply ingrained and not at all easily changed ‘Rubbernecking – Seth Godin
‘ Move on folks. There’s nothing to see here. Important stuff to do over there… ‘Don’t Use Scrum – Janusz Gorycki
‘ I can safely say that there exists one development methodology that is guaranteed to be matching your needs always: it is called “common sense” ‘
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