LINKBLOG for February 6, 2009
Feb 6th, 2009 by AZuidhof
Fear and panic – Craig Brown
‘ (…) people just don’t care. They snap back to their previous practices like a tightly wound rubber band ‘
But, introduce fear as a motivator? Don’t really see how that would workDumb Project Management Questions – Glen Alleman
‘ If a project management method cannot be connected to these principles in some way, any way, then the result is usually disappointing ‘Wrap Your Unit Tests in Transactions – Chinh Do
Resources For Introduction To Functional Programming – Abhijit Nadgouda
Crazy Linq: render a method invocation and its arguments as a string – Daniel Cazzulino
Software Development “Lessons Learned” – Jaron Ferguson
Jarod shares his lessons learned working in quite a big and successful Scrum teamA Little More Sugar for Testing Routes in asp.net MVC – Steven Harman
Model Driven template/scaffolding addin for Visual Studio – Eric Hexter
Optimization of Javascript and css files – Alkampfer
New Witty Twitter Published – 2.1.2 – Keith Elder
Agile Practices Are Meant To Be Adaptive (But Only When You’re Ready) – Kelly Waters
When is a Type not a Type? – Brad Wilson
‘ MakeGenericType will happily accept non-RuntimeTypes when creating the generic type, but as soon as you try to run Activator.CreateInstance() on it, you’ll get complaints that there are non-RuntimeTypes involved ‘Building AgiliTrain: Part 3 – Data Validation – Shawn Wildermuth
A Story of TFS WTFery – Ben Scheirman
Ben has had it with TFS. Partly humorous, partly the bitter truth, he shares all the pains he is suffering lately, being forced into this tool. I certainly don’t hate TFS as much as he, but I can relate that things often work in an.. hum, let’s say unexpected and unlogical way, which needs a lot of getting-used-to. And just like Ben, I’m hearing a lot of wtf’s related to TFS among my own colleguesGraphical Paths with Gradient Colors – Charles Petzold
*** We Don’t Have Requirements Yet, But How Long Will This Take You? – Robert McIlree
‘ A further probing of mine was why he was doing a WBS in the first place – since it’s a waterfall artifact – when he claimed the project was ‘Agile’
I’ve been in an almost exact situation like Robert describes here, and I can tell you, it’s not funPrinting Fake Currency Notes is disallowed in Photoshop – Amit Agarwal
So, there is an algorithm that decides the piece of paper you just put on your printer’s surface, is real moneyThe 100 Best Business Books of All Time Is Published Today – Bob Sutton
Just so you know. Always handy if you read business books…Hypocrisy as a Management Tool – Mark Freedman
‘ As the saying goes — good decisions come from experience, and experience comes from bad decisions ‘Agile: Why do we integrate early? – Mark Needham
‘ Get the pain out the way ‘CLR Team Blog : Catch, Rethrow and Filters – Why you should care?
‘ Not really well known and not used a lot, managed filters are invoked by the CLR in the first pass when it is looking for a handler for an exception ‘
OK, learned something new todayTotT: Be an MVP of GUI Testing – Google Testing Blog
Ron Jeffries and Engineering for Adults – James Bach
‘ I’m proud to be a part of the small “a” agile community, which is not about bowing to priests, but rather each of us developing our own judgment about agility ‘The Decline and Fall of Agilists – Jurgen Appelo
‘ (…) every agilist and their uncle are warning people not to adopt Scrum without XP practices, while our organization seems to be quite successful doing exactly that? ‘
Jurgen has a thought provoking article questioning agile principles, that is already attracting lots of interesting comments on both sidesExtreme Programming Taken to the Extreme – DevTopics
‘ You know it’s time to find a new job when your boss buys you one of these chairs ‘ funny stuff hereInterview: Software Design Helps Being Agile – Abel Avram
Hire People You Can Trust to Do Their Job – John Hunter
Over management, under manangement? Feeling a bit hesitant here. But tend to qualify over management as a greater risk. Lots of companies like to solve their problems by introducing new layers of management and more process when things go wrong, instead of looking at why the problem exists in the first placeLets Stop Making Acronyms and Just Do It! – Rob the Geek
‘ (…) can we please stop trying to come up with new fandangled buzzwords and acronyms to try and sound cool, especially when it is only describing something that should be a standard ‘
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