Stuff I Have Found Interesting Today

Japan’s Weird Unemployment Solution

The title says it all.

Project management for beginners

Best one page starting point for PMs. Anyone who is or wants to be a PM should read this now!

 

Lean Study Tour - Day 3: Bad News First

Mary's post on her tour leads to some interesting comments by a Japanese speaker "Ishii-san said that one cause of software development problems is managers who do not want to hear "bad news first"." This sounds like a root cause for many problems people have.

Crap Code Inevitable? Rumblings from ACCU.

I agree with Uncle Bob on this. There was a book I read once called "Quality is Free". It was targeted at manafacturing, but the essence is true for many things (including software). Quality produces lower defects which are expensve to fix. Thus keeping "crap" out of the software is like exercise. it costs some time up front, but is way cheaper and less time consuming than a hospital visit.

I Spose I’ll Just Say It: You Should Learn MVC

This guy has some good points and some good jabs. I think I just might have to learn javascript after all :-)

 

Paint Fence, Cut Wood, Pull Weed, Plant Tree - Finding Geek Balance Outside My Comfort Zone

Scott Hanselman on being well rounded...I never thought of him as well rounded, but he makes some good points for us not so well rounded people.

 

Functional C# – Composing Through Partial Application

This post makes me feel like I do not how to program. I still am not sure what currying is or why I need to use it. While I'm sure the code he provides works, it looks to hard to maintain except by people like the author.