Stuff I Have Found Interesting Today

Must read book: Brain rules

I have placed a hold at the library already. The author has a website (http://www.brainrules.net/) and a blog. Brain Rules for public speaking is particulary interesting and short. Here are some teasers from the review:

• Sleep makes your smarter - your brain processes information you need in your sleep

• Exercise makes you smarter - our brains and bodies work best when moving
• There is no scientific basis for how schools or courses are structured
• The left vs. right brain thing is waaaay overblown
• True multitasking is biologically impossible

When there's disagreement on feedback data

Some decent sounding advice on giving negative feedback.

 

Survey for Software Quality Attributes - Where Should We Focus?

I'm not a big into Quality Attributes, but I have found them useful in certain situations. The post has a nice Excel spreadsheet that would be useful if I need them again.

 

97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know: Book Review

Looks like a good book as it parrots many ideas I have. "Use before Reuse" was a term I used back in 1996.

 

Why Isn't My Encryption.. Encrypting?

Latest by Codinghorror is a good story and a lesson in "Understand All Parameters to Library Functions".

 

The Death of Richard Dawkins

A short story by Steve Yegge. It is humorous, a little confusing and makes me think, maybe I should just call it "Classic Yegge". I'm not sure how this story fits into his series "A programmer's view of the Universe" (part 1, part 2, part 3) I might find out in his next installment, but I might not.