LINKBLOG for December 14, 2007

• Decomposing a book club - Jimmy Bogard
  ' Probably the biggest benefit of book clubs and other organic training like brown bags is that they create a culture of self-improvement '


• How To Re-Start A Blog - Leon Bambrick
  The secretGeek has some advice if you want to start your own blog


• Dependency Injection House Call - Jacob Proffitt
  On in-house development: ' Whatever market niche your company occupies, the chances are that there is a 500 lb. gorilla creating software for your business '


• Architecture: Keeping it non-exponential - Tim Stall
  ' (...) one of the basic issues of architecture: keeping the ever-growing code base in a maintainable state '


• How a culture is created - Lessons in Management from Monkeys - Friday Reflections
  A lesson can be learned here: 'if it was possible to ask the monkeys why they would beat up all those who attempted to go up the ladder, I bet you the answer would be "I don’t know - that’s how things are done around here." '


• *** IT's time to stop blaming management - Reg Braithwaite
  ' We can only blame “management” for so much, and then we have to turn our attention to our own practices, to the mistakes we make that mirror the mistakes they make ' (wanted to link to it yesterday, but the article had disappeared from the si


• Resetting a Lost MySQL Password - Yaakov Ellis
  # mysql> update user set password = password(”NEWPASSWORD”) where user=”root”;
  Wish everything in life was as easy as this


• Exception Handling in Running a Business - Eric Sink
  ' The policy says anybody who purchased on or after June 17th will get the upgrade for free. The guy who bought at 10:00pm on June 16th is on the phone '


• Business software is Messy and Ugly - Uncle Bob
  ' I spent a long time with these folks countering that attitude and trying to engender an attitude of craftsmanship and professionalism '


• Scoble is moving on - Brian Bailey
  Aah yeah, Scoble, most(?) influential blogger. Because I'm more in .NET/TDD etc these days, forgot a bit about him. But he is going on another adventure. Do read the way the news broke!


• Being Agile Means Understanding When to Change - Steven Smith
  The post is nice, but do you really have to be agile to know when to change?