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Friday Linkage 06/02/2009

Some of the web pages I found most interesting this week:
Mentoring Other Developers
Mentoring is something we do not see enough of in this industry especially compared to other industries e.g. tradesmen where new workers have to serve under a master tradesmen till they learn their craft.  I personally find one on one sessions very valuable [...]

Friday Linkage 30/01/09

The web pages I’ve found most interesting this week when I’ve not been puppy herding or ill:
Open plan offices make workers sick
The results of this research is no real surprise, as putting lots of people is a room is a fairly efficient germ distribution mechanism.  Yet it is another useful bit of information in the [...]

Friday Linkage 16/01/09

The web sites that I’ve found most interesting this week are:
Remember the Milk
In my continuing quest for a decent To-Do list application I have signed up for ‘Remember the Milk’ an online To-Do list service and so far it seems pretty decent a distinct improvement over Microsoft Outlook’s task management anyway but that is not [...]

Friday Linkage 09/01/09

Here are the web pages that I have found most interesting this week:

Ten Killer WordPress Hacks
I was surprised to find that this article was interesting enough that I intend to experiment with implementing some of the suggestions.  This is unusual as I usually find lists of essential addons or plugins or hacks for WordPress uninspiring [...]

Reaction versus anticipation

It is not enough to react quickly to meet your customers feedback as a software engineer, if you truely want to be an excellent engineer you need to anticipate their needs (to an extent).   This does not mean creating applications that are so generic that they can meet any user need: as such systems [...]