LINKBLOG for November 1, 2007

• *** Technical Debt - Steve McConnell
  


• The Weekly Source Code 10 - Patterns Considered Harmful - Scott Hanselman
  


• Microsoft announces next big wave of products "Oslo" - Matt Milner
  it was just a matter of rolling the dice which post with Oslo in the title to show here...


• Don't Wait For The DBA! Use Excel And Temp Tables To Test On Artificial DB Environments - George P. Alexander Jr.
  


• The Agile Concentration Cave - David Starr
  I always felt like a caveman! bad joke


• Presentation: Adopting TFS - Grant Holliday
  slide deck available


• asp.net 2.0 anthology book review - Matt Hinze
  


• Tip/Trick: Hard Drive Speed and Visual Studio Performance - Scott Guthrie
  bottom line: get a 7200 or 10000 rpm hard drive if you can


• Malleable Software and Systems Design - Bryan Kowalchuk
  


• Seeking: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools - Ayende Rahien
  Ayende (Oren) is contemplating his professional future, Leon is too, by the way. Just maybe you are in the position to help these guys towards their next gig...


• Code Reads #13: “The Inevitable Pain of Software Development” - Scott Rosenberg
  Series of discussions on software development. This one with the central theme: 'software development is hard, and that won't change any time soon...'


• You Will Write a Novel Next Month -- Jarkko Laine
  For those who still look for something to do this November


• You Must Unlearn What You Have Learned - Giles Bowkett
  ' It takes incredible humility, and most people just aren't as humble as I am '
  do I smell a contradictio-in-terms in this last statement??


• Why try if you can't be the best? - Tim Stall
  This post is purely encouraging advice for those who are not the best (probably all readers of this blog ;-)
  ' You don't need to be the best. You can still get a job, contribute to the field, and have fun


• Keep It Simple and Short - Dane Carlson
  ' One reason why people have difficulty with this [social skills, ed.] is because they use more words than needed '


• Getting started with Reflector Addins - Jason Haley
  


• OOP, Nouns, Verbs And Metaphors | iface thoughts
  ' There can be problems when we start using it [nouns and verbs, ed.] as a design philosophy '


• Rollin' With CI Factory - Chris Bilson
  


• Hey, Speaker, zoom that Code! - Sascha P. Corti
  Sascha P. Corti


• Which came first... the domain model or the human? - Leon Bambrick