LINKBLOG for July 2, 2009
Jul 2nd, 2009 by AZuidhof
jQuery – Date Picker – Dave Bush
Changing Windows Service Runtime Behavior with Typemock Isolator – Travis Illig
‘ you have this boxed service that would be perfect for your needs if only this one thing could be fixed.
So what do you do? One option: Typemock Isolator ‘Installation of Tfs Beta 1 – Alkampfer
Book Review: The Economics of Iterative Software Development – Jim Holmes
‘ This is a lean book (small size, only 170 pages) which attempts to help managers and decision makers move to iterative approaches over waterfall ‘Be Intentional – Steve Rowe
‘ if you don’t have enough time to do everything on your plate, think carefully about which items will not get done rather than just working on items in no particular order. It should be your intent which specific items go undone ‘
‘ It’s the end of the fiscal year. Most engineers associate this time with performance review season, but for principal-level engineers and higher it’s also executive review season ‘Competing motives for an IT consulting engagement – Chip Camden
‘ Sometimes clients have ulterior motives for bringing in an IT consultant, such as they need to use up their budget or they need a scapegoat. Here are tips on what to do if you’re in this situation ‘ARGHHHHH! My new boss is 30-something with absolutely no leadership or management experience! – Dan McCarthy
‘ Whenever I get these “help me my boss is driving me nuts” emails, I always try to take a look at the situation from both sides, although I never get the opportunity of hearing the other side directly ‘Hypocrisy Leads To A Cynical Future – Miki Saxon
‘ the level of cynicism bred by this kind of hypocrisy is the truly tragic damage being done to our future ‘Twitter API with C# example(part 1) – Paul Zubkov
Windows 7 and Windows Installer Error “Another installation is in progress” – Jason N. Gaylord
MS Robotics Studio Updated – Al Tenhundfeld
A swimlane for ad-hoc workflow – Corey Ladas
‘ Swimlanes are used to track parallel work streams within a common resource. The most typical use might be grouping composite work items with a parent ‘ read on…Book Club: Logging – Release It (Michael Nygaard) – Mark Needham
Open Source Framework and Library Recommendations – Eric Nelson
via Abel AvramWhy are you Failing with Agile? – Mike Cottmeyer
‘ (…) why then… after all this time, effort, and money… are we still struggling with the fundamentals? Why can’t we seem to get over the hump? ‘PUTting the Couch(DB) in Your Living Room – Jan Van Ryswyck
‘ (…) for this post I want to talk about how to create and manage documents ‘The Utterly Thorough Guide To Awesome Application Compatibility on Windows 7 – Leon Bambrick
Microsoft Maren: Your Arabic friend – Abhishek Baxi
With this new Windows extension you can now type Arabic in Roman character
via twitter / Scott Hanselman
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