Friday, May 09, 2008
Innovation training and recruitment, Zirn Liew
Thoughts on some of the points to take in account when attempting to teach innovation.
Concept Models, Carrie Ritch
Notes from a presentation at IxDA Interaction 08 by Dan Brown.
Effective Prototyping Methods, Carrier Ritch
Notes from a presentation at IxDA Interaction 08 by Jonathan Arnowitz of SAP Labs.
Account Sign-In: Many Mistakes To Learn From, Carrie Ritch
Links to a couple of good 'what not to do' articles for user experience.
Roger Martin: The Opposable Mind, Design Continuum
Short question and answer session with Roger Martin (author of The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking)
The Product Architect | A Design Continuum from Functional to Desirable, Dave Shackleton
Discussion of a method to help sell non-believers on better design by looking at the desirability, usability and functionality.
Other stuff
Sasha Goldshtein - TechEd Israel 2008 Session Recordings Are Online and Latest Articles: Introduction to Workflow Services and Reading Unmanaged Data Into Structures
Alessandro Perilli - Microsoft opens Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool beta
Yazeed Hamdan - LINQ TO SQL All Common Operations (Insert,Update,Delete,Get) in ONE BASE Class
Andrew Coates - VSTO/VSTA Power Tools and Submitting Feedback on MS Products
Tess - How do I get a hotfix for .net or Visual Studio?
Lance - Teaching Parallelism
IKVM.Net Weblog - Compiler Intrinsics
pdestoop - S+S Sample App Litware HR - May 2008 Released
Ted Neward - Thinking in Language
David Burke - Everyman Links for May 8, 2008
Tomas Restrepo - Don't forget the BOM!
Scott Watermasysk - Castle Project
Damon Payne - Concurrent Unit Testing with xUnit.Net[1]
Microsoft Donwloads - Step-by-Step Guide for Testing Hyper-V and Failover Clustering
eugeniop - You don't have a beta account with SSDS, but you'd like to use the latest LitwareHR anyway
Joe Stagner - Free Mind Mapping Application
Scott Hanselman - Hanselminutes Podcast 110 - Microsoft Research: Spec#
Sara Ford - Did you know… The Object Browser has a navigate forward and navigate back? - #211
Todd Ogasawara - Freeware/Open Source for Windows Weekly Summary
Other link blogs
Alvin Ashcraft - Dew Drop - May 9, 2008
Mike Gunderloy - Double Shot #204
Chris Alcock - The Morning Brew #90
Steve Pietrek - Links (5/8/2008)
Arjan Zuidhof - LINKBLOG for May 8, 2008
Tim - Daily Find #65
Community stuff
Phil Denoncourt - New Hampshire .NET User Group is resuming in a new location
Microsoft Downloads - MSDN Community Distribution CD (May 2008)
Agile Managmenet Company - APLN Leadership Summit, Seattle July 17-18
Jonathan de Halleux - Pex at Agile 2008
Security stuff
Schneier on Security - Cell Phone Spying
Darknet - Want Some COFEE? Microsoft Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor
Web stuff
Microsoft Downloads - Mix it up (Mash it up) Experience the new web
pdestoop - Enterprise Mashup Tool (AKA Popfly for the Enterprise)
Federal Developer - OBA Composition Reference Toolkit version 2.0 Released
Paul Coldrey - Simple Component Inheritance In ExtJS
Matt Hawley - ASP.NET MVC - Using Post, Redirect, Get Pattern
Ricky Wang - Add Custom Configuration Sections into a Separate web.config
Wallace McClure - ASP.NET Podcast Show #112 - Intro to ASP.NET AJAX
Dion Almaer - Growl for Windows and a Web Notification API
Jake Morgan - ASP.NET Zip Entry Handler
Adamga - Microsoft Web Deployment Tool - Tech Preview 1 - x86
Debugging stuff
Dmitry Vostokov - WinDbg cheat sheet for crash dump analysis
NT Debug - Tracking down MmSt paged pool usage
Tom - ANSWER: POP QUIZ: Troubleshoot a Hang
PowerShell stuff
Joel Bennett - WPF From PowerShell - Updating Windows
PowerShell Team - Fun with Script Cmdlets and PowerShell Transactions QuickStart
Innovation stuff
experientia - France Telecom: from 1000 ideas to 1 product
Innovation Weblog - New report outlines how to develop business models for service innovation and Five pillars of sustainable innovation culture
Be Excellent - Achieving Business Excellence
Computing in the Cloud stuff
AWS Blog - High Performance Multithreaded Access to Amazon SimpleDB
Database stuff
Greg Duncan - Enhance your SSMS - SQL Server Management Studio Tools Pack 1.0 Released
Denis Gobo - How to log when a function is called?
Career stuff
Know It All - CIO Summit: Career Path
Thursday, May 08, 2008
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Monday, May 05, 2008
Sunday, May 04, 2008
There are a couple of things that triggered this entry:
- Dave Burke's Everyman Links for May 3, 2008 where he point to Mabster's entry Developing with Confidence
- The latest edition of Microsoft's The Architecture Journal, Journal 15 came in the mail this weekend - this edition is all about architects and the practice of architecture.
I've only read the first article so far (We Don't Need No Architects by Joseph Hofstader) in which I found the following quotes interesting:
"The role of the IT architect is to solve a problem by defining a system that can be implemented using technology. Good architects define systems by applying abstract knowledge and proven methods to a set of technologies with the goal of creating an extendible and maintainable solution."
"Understanding how a technology works is not enough to develop a robust software solution - understanding where the technology is applicable within a solution is essential to the development of a quality product."
To me the article is really good at describing how an architect really needs to have a broad knowledge base (domain and technical) as well as the ability to conceptualize the business problems and on the flip side see the patterns that can be applied to the solution. To me this means two things: experience and a great ability to be and stay current with the software industry.
So the question on my mind is: How do architects (or even developers) best stay up to date with all the new technologies, patterns, processes, etc. in order to best determine when and where to use them?
Anyone have any tips?
Saturday, May 03, 2008
For the past couple of weeks, I've been taking some time to investigate innovation related topics (and subscribing to more 'innovation' type blogs). Until today, I've just been emailing my department at work whenever I found something I thought other people would be interested in ... now I'm going to also start posting these to my blog.
Today's search started with the design company IDEO - so the majority of these items are related to it in some way.
The world's most innovative companies, FastCompany.com
FastCompany.com's listing of their 2008 Fast 50. Found this on IDEO's home page. I think the Fast 50 is from Feb 2008, so this might be old information for some of you.
The Power of Design, BusinessWeek May 17, 2004
Article about the IDEO way Also found this on IDEO's home page. It is around 8 pages long, but without the images it is only around 5 pages. I haven't completely finished the article yet, but is seems to give a good overview of what the company does and a little about how they do it.
Creativity and Innovation, Stuart Varrall
Some observations of IDEO's company culture and how it fosters creativity. A good quote from Stuart:
"Teams are flexible and dynamic, and the company structure flat, enabling people to concentrate on the job at hand, rather than office politics."
Company Culture, Stuart Varrall
Sums up some common company culture lessons learned from IDEO and Google.
Good link in the entry: Nine Lessons Learned about Creativity at Google, Marissa Mayer
Top Five Suggestions For Entrepreneurs From IDEO, Simeon Simeonov
Overview of a session from last week's Nantucket Conference with some additional resources (video clips, book links and additional information on IDEO).
Friday, May 02, 2008
Thursday, May 01, 2008
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
For the last week or so I've been using Google Reader for my morning blog reading and .... it is saving me at least 15 min a day! It is nice to not have to wait for the aggregator to update. Back when I was in Salem - I formed an offline mentality of blog reading because I use to do the majority of my blog reading on the train (offline) ... but since I now walk to work now - the use of an aggregator that was offline most of the time was costing me time ... never thought of it that way I guess.
Thanks to you readers who've suggested Google Reader the past few years ... wish I would have listened earlier!
Other link blogs
TechToolBlog - Daily Find #62
Chris Alcock - The Morning Brew #83
Scott Guthrie - April 28th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight
Nathan Weinberg - Links for April 28, 2008
Arjan Zuidhof - LINKBLOG for April 28, 2008
Robert Muehsig - Weekly Links: ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight 2, jQuery, CSS, C#…
Matt - Links Today (2008-04-28)
Alvin Ashcraft - Dew Drop - April 28, 2008
Web stuff
Dion Almaer - Fast Streaming Ajax Proxy
Hannes Preisheber - Visual Studio IIS 7 and WebDAV
Debugging stuff
Dmitry Vostokov - Crash Dump Analysis Patterns (Part 60) and Crash Dump Analysis Patterns (Part 6a)
NT Debug - NTDebugging Puzzler 0x00000004: This didn’t puzzle the Debug Ninja, how about you?
Tom - ASP.NET Tips: Looking at the finalization queue
Tess - Setting breakpoints in .net code using !bpmd
Junfeng Zhang - Event Handles “leak”
Other stuff
Sara Ford - Did you know… you can have your External Tool’s text displayed in the Output Window? - #204
Microsoft Downloads - MSDN Library for VS SP1 (April 2007 Edition)
Andrew Coates - Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack Released
pdestoop - Gartner Hype Cycle for High-Performance Workplace
Sam Gentile - SAML and Federated Identity Part 2 - Identity Management
Chris Pietschmann - Virtualization on the Desktop: VirtualPC 2007 and Hyper-V
iangrech - An Addressed Byte Array
Greg Young - Knuth: Wow
Eric Gunnerson - Individual Empowerment and agile...
.Net Languages Weblog - Does Any Language Targeting the CLR Generate a Fault Block?
Jamie Cansdale - TestDriven.Net 2.13: Support for NUnit 2.4.7
Chris Donnan - How Has Functional Programming Influenced Your Coding Style?
Pablo Galiano - LearnVSXNow and PowerCommands
Career stuff
Tom Hollander - Thoughts on being a Solution Architect
Community stuff
Mike Hall - Indy Code Camp 2008
Chris Bowen - BarCamp Boston 3 Announced
Glen Gordon - Charlotte Code Camp (May 17, 2008) Call for Speakers
Blogging stuff
Tim Heuer - Some minor Subtext enhancements
Steven Smith - Regional Director Sidebar Gadget
Silverlight stuff
Mike Taulty - Silverlight 2 - RegisterCreateableType
Computing in the cloud stuff
Dion Almaer - Aptana Cloud: Develop on your desktop, sync out to the cloud
Bob Walsh - Virtual Servers: the Battle is Joined
Judi Sohn - Egnyte Adds File Server to Sharing and Backup Service
Monday, April 28, 2008
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