From Susan Polgar's blog, Peace Pals Art contest for children ages 5-17 http://www.wppspeacepals.org/
Integrity - I With a great quote for CS Lewis. Reminds me of a quote I heard from a friend "Management is easy once you let go of your integreity".
Social Networking for Developers Funny repsonse to Scott Hansleman's StackOverflow Question - How can social networking sites make you a better developer? Faily short good read.
Interesting picture King & Quen chess pieces
Jurgen Accountable or Responsible? light but I like the quote that he borrows from another post that borrowed it from a newsgroup entry "So I TAKE responsibility and I am HELD accountable."
Why Do You Care About What “Everyone” Else Does? puts into words what I was thinking when I saw Jurgen's survey. For the record I didn't think it through this clearly, but luckily she did.
Is Git more than just a version control system? Fascinating read on using Git as a backend for a database
How Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Gets Things Done Interesting that he uses Eudora...I remember that name, but that's about all. Gotta love the picture at the end....guess which one is the geek?
If you want an improvement culture, 20 expressions to avoid Fun short list.
A Modest Proposal for the Copy and Paste School of Code Reuse is rather long for such a short point, but maybe he didn't have enough time. The suggestion at the end sounds good to me:
What I propose is this:
// codesnippet:1c125546-b87c-49ff-8130-a24a3deda659
- (void)fadeOutWindow:(NSWindow*)window{// code}}Attach a one line comment convention with a new GUID to any code snippet you publish on the web. This ties the snippet of code to its author and any subsequent clones. A trivial search for the code snippet GUID would identify every other copy of the snippet on the web:http://www.google.com/search?q=1c125546-b87c-49ff-8130-a24a3deda659
Why estimate? Is estimating due to lack of trust? I'm not sure I agree with everything in this, but the key point I took away was make sure you are spending the appropriate amount of time on the estimates. Take the value in consideration. I like estimated, but I only spend about 2-4 hours a month on them.
Two posts that tell me that middlemen of all types beware, the internet is a great middleman:
Martin Fowler is writing a new book on DSLs and he has this page for those that want to read drafts http://martinfowler.com/dslwip/
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