LINKBLOG for January 24, 2008

• How to write stories _before_ the project kicks off - Jeffrey Palermo
  ' Ok, buddy, but how will we know what the acceptance conditions are? '


• Hands On Learning How to Use the Sysinternals Process Monitor Utility - Greg Duncan
  Process Monitor is, next to Process Explorer, one of those invaluable and free debugging tools available to Windows oriented developers


• How to Make Six Figures, Each and Every Year - Travis Wright
  The best answer I can make from this post is: don't work in IT!


• Purist vs. Pragmatist - Tim Stall
  ' The purist - pure, perfect coding, and never get their hands dirty with un-pure code
  The pragmatist - get the product shipped and make the client happy, but may take hacks and shortcuts to do so '


• Getting the Interview Phone Screen Right - Jeff Atwood
  ' The interviewer should push them out of their comfort zone a bit and ask them related questions about things they haven't seen or done before '


• How to break HTML by pretending to support it - Charles Miller
  ' If they go with their current plans, Microsoft will be attempting to redefine “standard” as “what IE7 does” '


• Enterprise Product Management - Broad and Deep - Scott Sehlhorst
  


• How agile are you? (Take this 42 point test) - Kelly Waters
  Hmm, if this list is representative then our team is not (yet) agile...


• Zoning For The Holarctic Region - The Braidy Tester
  On the many many ways a parking sign can be interpreted


• “Path” Testing - Adam Goucher
  Happy, sad, evil and social ones


• Assumption is the mother of all ________ - Eric Wise
  ' I think the community needs to take a deep breath and realize there is value in developers of all skill levels and tasks which are best suited for them '
  This should be said more often to contrast all too easy statements like 'only the top 1% counts'
  


• TeamCity Continuous Integration & Build Management is really awesome - Jan van Ryswyk
  ' TeamCity is what TFS and CC.NET should be like when they grow up ' Hmm, don't know as we are "stuck" with TFS 2008 :-)


• The Weekly Source Code 13 - Fibonacci Edition - Scott Hanselman
  If you like algorithms. There are more in the comments


• Did you know... There are 4 window layouts that you can save - #135 - Sara Ford
  


• Interoperability Happens - Can Dynamic Languages Scale?
  ' What do you mean by scale?
  1. Size of project, as in lines-of-code (LOC)
  2. Capacity handling, as in "it needs to scale to 100,000 requests per second" '
  via Jason Haley


• On the Perils of Wikipedia - Eric Sink
  ' it's hard to decide how afraid to be of something that is really bad and really rare '
  Wise words and an interesting connection between Wikipedia and terrorism


• Inexcusable Data Center Mistake - Greg Hughes
  ' Network Switches and Cards Set to Auto-Negotiate (or, I'd be a rich man if...) '


• OpenID implementation in C# and ASP.NET - Mads Kristensen
  Code sample included


• 10 Reasons Why Freelancers are the Rockstars of the Business World - Tim Grahl
  (as compared to Rockstars) ' Freelancers - Start work at 9am. Break for food / xbox / sleep from noon until 6pm. Work until 3am '
  via Jason Haley


• Quan To's Visual Studio Extensibility blog : Building your own Visual Studio Source Code Outliner extension
  via Greg's Cool thing of the day