LINKBLOG for August 25, 2007

• It pays to be open minded - Thinking Faster
  ' Here's a test - if your manager enters a meeting and immediately establishes very tight, very narrow boundaries for the discussion and doesn't allow exploration or consideration of alternative solutions, you are probably working with a close minded manager '
  


• Data on Data Breaches - Emergent Chaos
  


• Programming Games, Analyzing Games - Coding Horror
  Jeff wonders: what were your first programming steps?
  


• Zooba’s Blog » One Language to rule them all
  ' Anyone who would willingly choose MFC over VB for a GUI intensive application has clearly not used MFC before (or alternatively, have not used VB before) '
  Really, it's not only VB and MFC in this longish post that mainly floats around the fact that every language has it's pro's and definitely cons. Finding a languages suitable to solve every problem that can be addressed by programming is as looking for the holy grail. AFAIK that has not been found till this very day.
  
  The above courtesy of the secretGeek, who is also completely freaking out on this topic here
  


• The S-Shape Curve - Neal Whitten
  ' Which do you practice: the "50/70 Rule" or the unreliable "50/50 Rule"? '
  


• The One Business Case for Integration - Devhawk
  Understanding your business is key, the rest follows from there
  


• PatHelland's WebLog : Asynchronous and Synchronous are Subjective Terms
  ' So, in my opinion, the I/O we just described is:
  Synchronous with respect to the fiber and
  Asynchronous with respect to the thread. '
  


• Man arrested in suspected Wi-Fi theft - vnunet.com
  Still using your neighbour's WIFI? You might want to reconsider
  


• Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - Scott Hanselman's 2007 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows
  Scott produces an awfully long list this time... tell me if you've read it completely
  


• Auto forward emails from exchange to your gmail (or other) email accounts - Roy Osherove
  This one and the next are coming to you from the Email Department
  


• At peace with Outlook - Matt Berther