Links of the day

Testing:

• Tester quiz
• Automating web tests with FitNesse and Selenium
• When testers create bugs
• When a bug is a ‘not bug’ or a standard, and also does “” evaluate to false in *most* languages
• Web technology for testers
• Certification - a personal history

Other software developement stuff:

• Comment:Code 1:3
• 4 letter words
• RubyMicrosoft - Martin Fowler takes a swipe at Redmond
• Build your own CAB part 4
• Google Gears - Maybe all Rich Internet Applications needed was Local Storage and an Offline Mode
• Concise introduction to Castle MonoRail
• Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection: Working with Windsor Container
• The birth of google reader - part 1 and part 2
• The OR/M smackdown

Links of the day

Software development:

• Lean development
• The technological 7 year itch
• Personal vs. Professional software development
• Dreaming in code
• The three ages of the software developer

Web development:

• One line memoization in javascript
• The window.onload problem (still)

Testing:

• How doctors think
• Ten software testing myths

Other bits:

• Building creativity into company culture
• What does your business card say?
• Why would someone want to work for your company?

Links of the day

Web development:

• The new prototype DOM builder
• Ruby on .NET, Silverlight Gems, the DLR, and RailsConf 2007 - Scott Hanselman
• ASP.NET “Futures”
• Microsoft’s Silverlight disappoints
• IIS vs Apache
• Formal weirdness - Eric Meyer

Productivity:

• Sabotage due to pain - developers, take ergonomics seriously
• 4 ways to get unstuck
• My space NOT MySpace

Other random bits:

• Google launches new design, universal search and a site for search experiments
• How to be a great receptionist
• Ten questions with Penelope Trunk - Guy Kawasaki
• Mark having a small dig at web process and smelling paper
• MSDN now has a testing forum
• Why are overloaded operators always static in c#?
• Bill Gates and Donkey.BAS

Links of the day

Design:

• Cool business card designs

Web development:

• The zen of the web programming model - part 1, part 2 and part 3
• The pragmatic programmer guys are coming out with a book on Prototype and Script.aculo.us - now available in beta
• The IE developer toolbar comes out of beta - at last
• After Orcas, Can’t Create Web Project on any IIS on any OS

Powershell:

• Boo vs Powershell
• Reflector Add-ins and Powershell language support for reflactor

Productivity:

• Redo your workspace for productive web working
• Simple productivity: 5 ways to do more by focusing

General software development:

• Michael Feathers on regenerative builds and a C# tool for doing them, Nester
• Software development isn’t a relay sport
• Testing with specialized Assert classes in MbUnit
• Project Astoria - REST to SQL goodness or concurrency hell?

Links of the day

Inventing:

• James Dyson on living a life of failure, via 37 Signals

Programming:

• What ASP.NET developers should know about JavaScript, via Scott Allen
• Adventures in JavaScript testing - from last year’s RailsConf Europe
• Ruby for c# geeks - Ruby is great for lots of tasks, even when working with .NET (e.g. Watir) - now Microsoft have announced IronRuby you probably want to have a look at it…
• A free refactoring tool for ASP.NET, via Brad Abrams - we use Resharper here but Refactor! this looks like it fills in some of the HTML refactoring that Resharper misses…

Project management:

• Remember that targets are not estimates, via Scott Hanselman, and Craig Andrea’s followup
• Tips for successful team lead, via Roy Osherove
• Jeremy Miller on Retrospectives
• The dire consequences of fixed price IT projects

Recruitment:

• The war for talent is back

Links of the day

Lots of good stuff coming out about Silverlight:

• Dissecting Silverlight
• Silverlight - AJAX is an endangered species
• Silverlight - the web just got richer
• Putting MIX, SilverLight, The Core CLR and the DLR into context
• Sam Gentile on the cross platform CLR

And some bad:

• Mark Pilgrim on Silverlight / Apollo

Other DHTML things:

• Heap Feng Shui in JavaScript
• JayRock looks like a nice lightweight JSON-RPC wrapper as an alternative to the ASP.NET AJAX implementation

Other development things:

• Big ball of mud software architectures
• Programming tip - learn a graphics editor