LINKBLOG for November 25, 2007

• Bugs Kill Productivity and Schedule Accuracy
  ' To a high degree, TDD ensures that the software is really working and that regressions are caught and fixed quickly '


• The Latest .NET, a Brilliant Strategy - The Trucking Nerd
  On Microsoft's supposed business strategy: ' (...) they had basically concluded that the only thing developers should have to worry about are the elements that are unique to the business requirements they are programming '


• Jeff Atwood Feared Dead After Not Posting for 5 Days - Joseph Cooney
  :-)


• Are Trackbacks (still) Worth It? - Scott Watermasysk
  should trackbacks be buried because of the splog that follows, or do we fight back?


• Generic Singleton Pattern - R Potter
  


• Back to Basics: XOR - Billy McCafferty
  Being not really a bit-minded person I tend to always forget about the use of XOR. This is a good reminder


• Debunking The Cost Of Quality And Productivity - Eileen Bonfiglio
  


• The Effective Software Developer’s Book List - Philosophical Geek
  reccomended reading list


• *** Ten tips on agile software development - John K Waters
  As always when introducing a new concept at once, you will find so many forces against you that success has no chance at all


• Usability review: parkingfriend.com - Scott Berkun
  


• Software Is Not The Solution - Abhijit Nadgouda
  ' The communication tools got better, but the communication still suffered and customers got more frustrated '
  I'm bombarding this as quote of the week. Also *within* companies you will find this pattern all the time: tools yes, communication no.


• Posters, posters and again posters... - A developer's strayings
  


• Cmdlets vs. APIs - Aaron Lerch
  


• Domain Specific Language: Losing the original language - Ayende Rahien
  


• How To Draw an Asynchronous Process | Tyner Blain
  ' Asynchronous processes don’t come up often when learning about diagramming techniques. But you find them all the time in the real world '


• Jacob Carpenter on named arguments in C# - Kirill Osenkov
  


• Tools for personal coding projects - Ade Miller
  On bug tracking, continuous integration and source control for your personal adventures in coding


• Unit Testing Bliss in Visual Studio 2008 - David Starr