The Screw-Me Scenario
Rands on meeting preperation and how to handle the time when someone tries to give you the screw. Thought proking and useful as ususal.
Vote for the national Doodle 4 Google winner
Some neat doodles from all school age groups. Look even if you don't care to vote.
Tackling the risk early on at a task level
A short story about how one person uses risk to decide what to tackle first. I recommend taking the most valuable feature slice first with TDD. Hook up the GUI last and then do basic testing before acceptance testing by the user. I have done things described in this story, but I find them to be less productive then a user slice first mentality.
Sam Maloof, master furniture craftsman
Fascinating man who builds furniture by hand and is 93. My favorite line is "He doesn’t take measurements before he starts a project."
Good article that asks some good questions about the current state of the news media.
Why the sea is boiling hot
A post in response to We need both engineers and artists in programming which was a post in reponse to Uncle Bob's keynote at the latest Rails Conference. Even if you are now confused, this post by Uncle Bob is worth reading if you are in the software field or call yourself a professional.
