This weeks interesting links are:
Failure as an indication of progress
This post features a great video about Honda’s Indycar racing experience and how they have an attitude that you have to fail to push the envelope. This is something I can understand, as I recently started learning to ice skate to play ice hockey. I noticed [...]
I have noticed over the years in daily stand up meetings that there seems to be two common forms of answer to the standard Scrum questions:
What did you do yesterday?
What are you doing today?
Are you blocked by anything?
The first type is the concise answer which is in my mind the ideal answer, one that provides [...]
A very common trap to fall into while implementing a new system or feature is to add functionality to ‘future proof’ your code for a use case that you imagine in may be required in the future. The future for the purposes of this post is any time that is not in your current development [...]
This weeks interesting web pages are:
ASP.Net MVC: Release Candidate One
This week Microsoft released an official release candidate for their ASP.Net MVC framework. Check out this blog post for a list of whats has changed. ASP.Net MVC has been in beta for a while and I’ve been trying to wait patiently for a more concrete release [...]
In the last month I’ve come across several useful pieces of software which I thought I would share:
Launch Bar (Mac OS X)
One thing I noticed when I switched from using Windows PCs at home to using Macs was that there did not seem to be an obvious equivalent to using the run command (Windows Key [...]