Arjan’s World

Lots of leadership and learning stuff today

• Management vs Leadership – Derick Bailey
• On Teaching, Learning, and Being Honest With Ourselves – Scott C Reynolds
• Leadership 101: Build Broad Shoulders – Jim Holmes
  ‘ If I didn’t do my job right, the radar wouldn’t be available to find the bad guys, things might explode, and good guys could die ‘
• Top five things *not* to do when fired – Scott Berkun
• How to Become a More Effective Learner – Adam Goucher
• Parity Between Languages – Chris Eargle
  C# and VB.NET get closer
• Analyzing TFS performance with TfsActivityLogging and custom User Agents – Grant Holliday
• Designing LINQ operators – Jon Skeet
• AutoMapper: the Object-Object Mapper – Jimmy Bogard
• When is a Bug NotABug – Richard Mitchell
• A Requirements Challenge – Mike Cohn
• When Voting Machine Audit Logs Don’t Help – Bruce Schneier
• Wording in BDD specs – Björn Rochel
• Communicating with code – Paul Buchheit
  On the importance of prototyping as quickly as possible, especially if you’re idea is a bad one: it can be taken to the backyard and shot ASAP
  ‘ Some people can sell their ideas with a brilliant speech or a slick powerpoint presentation.
  I can’t ‘
  via The Fishbowl – Charles Miller
• Misjudgment or Transparency? How a Single Tweet Caused a Stir With a Client – Jeremiah Owyang
  One of the blessings in disguise on the internet: everything is out in the open, and will be archived. Forever:
  ‘ When you tweet, you’re publishing, don’t say anything you wouldn’t say to someone’s face, and assume that your current and future boss, wife, and mother are reading it ‘
• Lonely, scared & bitter – Seth Godin
  Inspirational graph of the day, Kathy Sierra style
• Useful Microsoft CRM 4.0 links – David Vidmar
• Developer Productivity – 5 Ways To Kill It – Geek Daily
• Overwhelmed Developers Need a Training Plan – JP Hamilton
  This post tells you the importance of learning how to learn and carries one of the most useful pieces of advice to stay sane in these times that I’ve seen in quite some time:
  ‘ If I need it, I’ll read it ‘
• Can You Cure the Copy/Paste Disease? – Leon Bambrick
  ‘ The other day, someone on stack overflow said they wished copy and paste were not permitted within an IDE.
  It’s a wacky idea – but sometimes I’m inclined to agree ‘
• The Secret to Being Insanely Creative – Jonathan Mead
  ‘ What’s the secret to unleashing your creativity?
  I’ll tell you, but it’s not what you think… ‘
• What to consider before moving a client’s IT department – Susan Harkins
  ‘ Nobody likes to move, but imagine moving a business! If you’re called upon to help move a client’s IT department, be sure to have this helpful checklist handy during the planning stage ‘
• Optimum Utilization Of Product Teams, Bullshit Busters And Sleeping Pills For Monkeys – Rajiv Popat
• Tips on Upgrading from VSS to Subversion – Russell Ball
  ‘ We’ve almost completed our first week on Subversion and all is well. Here are a few pieces of advice to those of you about to embark on a VSS to SVN migration of your own ‘
• Turning spikes into a solution – Erik van Brakel
  ‘ One of the pitfalls of writing spikes is getting stuck in an endless cycle of writing them (…) So, how do we avoid getting stuck on spikes? ‘
• Microsoft SDKs
  Convenient page linking to all Microsoft SDK’s