LINKBLOG for November 11, 2007

• Keep Process Simple - Steve Rowe
  ' Tasking someone with creating process is a surefire way to choke the system on too much process '


• They can steal your code, but they can't steal your creativity!! - Jean-Paul Boodhoo
  Fortunately for us, Jean Paul cannot sleep tonight, and is on a blogging spree full of inspirational thoughts. Here's one on top developers:
  ' They don’t care about dropping all of their secrets, techniques and practices in front of you because these things are all a result of one thing: Creativity '
  


• Software Developers vs. Software Artists - Jean-Paul Boodhoo
  ' IMHO, I truly believe that more developers would feel a lot greater satisfaction with their job if they took the time to exercise the creative sides of their brain. In our microwave culture, we are not satisfied unless we can get things happening now! '


• How to be an Expert Agile Team - Chris Spagnuolo
  via Christopher Steen's Link Listing. Ah, just head over there, lot's of interesting links today!


• Orcas cometh - Don Box
  this month


• Evolution of the WPF Designer - Paul Stovell
  two weeks old, but just saw this today. Really interesting what Paul says here on WPF:don't take everything for granted ' Rather than focus on “designers” for a second, let’s again go back to why we liked designers in the first place: productivity


• ?? Operator and it’s use case - Gerhard Stephan
  ' Long time I asked myself, for what the heck I could use the ?? operator. Last days I found the perfect scenario for using this operator '


• The Nerd Handbook - Rands In Repose
  Yes we devs do have a user manual, it's over here


• Unit Testing Irritants in Visual Studio 2008 - David Starr
  According to David, there is still work to do on the new VS, as far as unittesting is concerned:
  ' I can run the 2nd round of testing, modify a previously passing test method so that it fails, and it will not get picked up in this test session. Yikes! '


• Building the Application off the Database - Evan Hoff
  ' My personal opinion is that you are better off realizing what the one true model is and not fighting the current '


• Did you know... How to stop a find in files search? - Sara Ford
  


• Why Enterprise Architecture is a Corporate Responsibility - Mike Walker
  via Sam


• Multi-Agent Software Design on Windows - Mert Ozdag
  


• Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - The Weekly Source Code 11 - LOLCode DLR Edition
  LOLCode edition


• Everything about REST web services - what and how - Part 2 - design - Koushik Biswas
  part 1