LINKBLOG for January 23, 2008

• The Holy Grail: How to Outsource the Inbox and Never Check Email Again - Tim Ferriss
  O, if I just had the luzury of hiring an assistant, virtual or not...


• Continuous Integration Strategies (Part II) - Jeff Black
  


• Printable Design Patterns Quick Reference Cards - Mark Gregory Turansky
  From The Gang-of-Four set of patterns


• 40 Reasons Why Software Projects Die
  40 anti-patterns


• Estimating the learning curve - Chris Spagnuolo
  On the unknowns a lot of changes at the same time can cause
  


• Expectations - Sean Feldman
  ' (...) the most important - don't have expectations for others, only for yourself '


• Design to Interfaces - Steve Rowe
  


• TFS MCP Exam 70-510 - Pieter Gheysens
  Ha, good advice: don't be too afraid when it comes to exams: ' (...) don't let it come so far that you will never take the exam because you will never feel 100% prepared! '


• .NET Tip of The Day: Treat .NET Threads as a Shared Resource
  ' Treat threads as a shared resource and use the optimized .NET thread pool '


• There is too much money to be made in software development - Raymond Lewallen
  


• Hacking Power Networks - Bruce Schneier
  ' There's nothing like an vague unsubstantiated rumor to forestall reasoned discussion. But, of course, everyone is writing about it anyway '


• Nurturing Incubations - Somasegar
  Somasegar writes a Paul Graham-like post
  ' As a development organization, it is important to make sure that a portion of the team’s bandwidth is allocated for incubation or “long-lead” innovation which we expect to take to market in a subsequent product '


• Research Supports The Effectiveness of TDD - Phil Haack
  Evenrything can be investigated, even TDD. If even scientists say it's good for you, why object :-)


• TDD Proven Effective! Or is it? - Jacob Proffitt
  Speaking about Phil's report, but I certainly didn't read that. Fortunately Jacob did: ' So, being the curious type and since TDD is something I'm keeping an eye on to see if its something I might want to adopt myself some day, I went into the report '


• Five whys - Joel Spolsky
  Some sysadmin stuff from the Fog Creek headquarters, leading to a lesson learned ' Keeping internet services online suffers from the problem of black swans '