LINKBLOG for August 30, 2007

• Evolution beta is a powerful personal data mining tool - Joe Barr
  Now you can do your own data mining
  


• John Graham-Cumming: Why you don't want to code for a government department
  return aq457 * aq456( aq457 - 1 );
  


• Give your Products Names, not numbers - Des Traynor
  


• Implementing A Data Model And Business Layer That Supports State Management - Benzi K. Ahamed, The Code Project
  


• Bad Chicken Code - Brad Bellomo
  ' Some programmers simply don't unlearn this, just cannot stop classifying, and probably would have been happier as taxonomists in the biology department. '
  


• Challenges to world class software design - Russell Wilson
  ' Everyone thinks they are designers '
  I am *not* one, the point is to recognize this, and don't think "well, how hard can it be? and "then proceed on your own
  


• Random acts of testing - amazing development
  


• Humor in the Workplace: "It should not have happened in the first place..." - Friday Reflections
  


• Just .NET Remoting - redredlobster, The Code Project
  ' This is almost the simplest .NET Remoting example possible. '
  


• Inside Architecture : When they are not ready...
  ' Lead from the place where your follower is standing. You cannot successfully lead from anywhere else. '
  


• software is not made of bricks - maetl
  ' I have come to believe that these kinds of problems are even more prevalent in the web development world than in general software development. '
  Not so strange if you compare how long we're already doing software development in contrast to development on the web
  


• The Monkey Experiment, (or) “Why Do We Do That?”
  via secretGeek
  


• The 95 percent syndrome in Software Development - Diego Parilla
  so recognizable
  


• More puzzles - Erling Ellingsen