Interesting Finds: August 25, 2008 - [Rough Cut]

Other stuff
Omar Shahine - Executor, the Ultimate Windows Launcher
Davy Brion - Software Development Books: Investing In Yourself
Tharindu Nishad Patikirikorla - Dynamic Assemblies
Greg Young - Fast Serialization
Phil Haack - Streamlined BDD Using SubSpec for xUnit.NET
Dare Obasanjo - Best Practices for Web Sites Seeking to Prevent Service Degradation due to 3rd Party Widgets
Sasha Goldshtein - More on Converting Native Exceptions to Managed Exceptions
Jonathan Edwards - Too many cores, not enough brains
Tim Stall - Book: Code Leader
Robert Scoble - Story Pitch: Microsoft’s “flattened” Windows 7 team and what it means for business
David Brabant - Desktops: a new utility by the SysInternals' folks
Udi Dahan - Domain Events - Take 2

Web stuff
Daniel Cazzulino - How to get ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 to run with .NET SP1
Helbrax - Custom Alert Boxes using Javascript and the DOM
Philipp Lenssen - Pitfalls to Avoid When Designing Forms

Database stuff
Muhammad Shujaat Siddiqi - SQL Server Alerts
Linchi Shea - Large Query Performance and Query Parallelism
Kimberly Tripp - SQL Server 2008 fails to send database mail, Sparse columns with filtered indexes, Upcoming Events, and - as usual - catching up (i.e. cookies)! and Installing Data Dude CTP16 with SQL 2008 and Visual Studio and Auto update statistics and auto create statistics - should you leave them on and/or turn them on?? and Updates (fixes) to sp_helpindex2
Pinal Dave - SQLAuthority News - 4 Million Visits - over 675 SQL Server Articles
Aaron Bertrand - Pushing for more tools-related fixes for SQL Server 2011

Debugging stuff
Sasha Goldshtein - Debugging Silverlight Applications: SOS.DLL

Agile stuff
David Brabant - Virtual Scrum Board
Dave Laribee - Introducing Kanban at Xclaim
Ade Miller - Scrum Bestiary - The Rubber Duck

Cloud Computing stuff
Alessandro Perilli - Gartner forecasts that Cloud Computing will be mainstream in 2-5 years
AWS Blog - Amazon SimpleDB Releases QueryWithAttributes

SOA stuff
Joe McKendrick - Is SOA an elixir or real fix for ‘medieval’ data practices? and WOA wins hands-down over SOA in popularity contest
Todd Biske - ITIL and SOA
Jack van Hoof - Service Oriented Architecture with Java

Career stuff
Celine Roque - Dealing With Speculative Work
Mike Gunderloy - Web Worker 101: Working with Subcontractors
Zen Habits - The Dirty Little Secrets of Productivity Bloggers
Dave Horne - Software Careers: The Starting Salary Game

Innovation stuff
Mitch Ditkoff - Getting Down to the Business of Creativity

Other link blogs
Rhonda Tipton - Weekly Link Post 56
David Vidmar - Links of the Week #50 (week 34/2008)
Steve Pietrek - Links (8/24/2008)
Christopher Steen - Link Listing - August 24, 2008
Mike Gunderloy - Double Shot #276

posted on Monday, August 25, 2008 3:52 AM