LINKBLOG for March 24, 2009
Mar 24th, 2009 by AZuidhof
What to do when your client doesn’t pay – Chip Camden
‘ (…) tips on how to get your client to pay you on their own volition, continue to be your client, and pay you on time in the future ‘
I always thought you should beat them up, but apparently there are better waysSimple Rules, Complex Systems and Software Development – Michael Dubakov
‘ Many complex systems are based on simple rules. A set of several simple rules leads to complex, intelligent behavior. While a set of complex rules often leads to a dumb and primitive behavior ‘
O, I feel the Game of Life coming up here… ah, there it is!How to write fast code – Kas Thomas
‘ In those days, you could unroll a loop in assembly and pretty much count on getting a worthwhile speedup (…) ‘ O, those golden days!Choosing a business name – John-Daniel
‘ What you name your company is important – it’s the identity you’ll operate under for the foreseeable future ‘Batting Clean-up – Mike Gunderloy
‘ Over the course of these engagements I’ve come up with a strategy for getting up and running on a new-to-me Rails codebase quickly ‘How to Avoid Overreacting and Acting like a Juvenile – Alex Shalman
‘ Looking retrospectively, I’ve made plenty of social errors by saying or doing the wrong thing ‘35 Year Old Puzzle – Didier Stevens
‘ Here’s a 35 year old puzzle (it’s not mine). I’m curious if you’ll find the solution without using Google ‘
Warning: the solution is already in the comments, so be careful if you want to give it a serious go for yourselvesHow Great Companies Turn Crisis Into Opportunity – Adam Goucher
‘ What really matters is that you actually have core values — not what they are ‘A Brief Collection of Convenient Lies about Functional Programming – Michael Feathers
The first month of my online game – Igor Ostrovsky
Igor evaluates his cool RoboZZle online game, that has given me and my 6 y/o already a couple hours of funOne tool to test them all: Microsoft Expression Web SuperPreview – Peter Eysermans
New O’Reilly book: Beautiful Teams – Scott Berkun
Upcoming interesting book!Agile maturity – Mendelt Siebenga
Mendelt’s rebuttal to Scott Amblers ‘death to agile’ declaration of Agile professionalizing processifiying (or whatever)Interview: Tim Bray on the Future of the Web – Dionysios G. Synodinos
ASP.NET MVC for RoR developers: do as locals do – Simone Chiaretta
‘ ASP.NET MVC is not as mature as RoR, mostly for the community standpoint. (…) But I hope that ASP.NET MVC becomes a great community as the RoR one is ‘Sudoku as a CSP – Dotan Asselmann
‘ I was learning an AI course in my college and learned about Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSP). The lecturer asked for little solver projects, and I thought… Sudoku! ‘The Emergence Of Knowledge In Software Development – Derick Bailey
41 is? It’s now the count of free controls/components in the Krypton Toolkit – Greg Duncan
‘ Krypton 3.5 Released, with new Date, Time, Calendar controls added ‘Keys and Passwords – John Magnabosco
Key management in the database
‘ As a quick refresher: When an asymmetric key is created you have the option to protect the key with a password ‘Out-of-Solution Root Project Reference and Assembly Module Version Identifier Problem – D. P. Bullington
Eulogy for the Data-Centric View – Tony Rasa
‘ One defense mechanism is to deny the validity of the new idea, without examining the thing personally or in depth ‘Exceptions out of Fault/Finally – CLR Team Blog
Getting syntax highlighting for your powershell scripts (take 2) – Jean-Paul Boodhoo
My “Tech ToDo” – I can haz skillz? – Rob Cooper
‘ One of my main goals for this year was:
I really need to ante-up my geek game ‘
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Thanks for the link to RoboZZle.com, Arjan!
Glad to hear that the game has kept your six-year old busy for a couple hours.
The game has been keeping people busy for weeks, and there are very few who come close to most puzzles solved.
So – to clarify – it is definitely not a kids-only game.
@Igor: I’m glad to give some more attention to this game, it definitely deserves it! And to my son: I was showing him how to solve a puzzle, and gave a bad solution. He all by himself made one of the instruction “red” after which the puzzle was solved. Great stuff