Concentrated Codesqueeze: July 2007
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A big thank you to my readers for sharing codesqueeze. The 101 post alone received 70,000 page views, 1130 Diggs, 410 Delicious Bookmarks, and 62 Comments. Here are the most popular posts this month:
Readers Choice:
101 Ways To Know Your Software Project Is Doomed
Sauron the Intern
Get Yourself A Morning Ritual
3 Simple Ways To Avoid […]
Why False Starts Hurt Your Project
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Unfounded optimism and a willingness to dive into the unknown is a well documented genetic defect in software developers and managers. Unfortunately, these innate bad habits can lead us to false starting on projects, and consequently losing valuable time and money.
False starts remind me of a story inspired by this quote:
Give me six hours […]
Jojo the Timesheet Monkey
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Extra Squeezed Links: July 2007
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My email overfloweth with great links. Here is a 2nd edition of squeezed links this month.
How To Piss Off Development - The Cranky Product Manager shows us the sure-fire way to piss off a development team
Don’t Build for the Future - Simple title, timeless advice
Rules to Better Unit Tests - Solid ideas for writing […]
Book Review: Agile Retrospectives
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Perfectly fitting with the style of the Pragmatic Programmer series, Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great is a book for helping teams run effective and fun retrospectives.
Whether you call them postmortem, postpartum, or retrospective meetings; these meetings can help your team iteratively move forward by looking back.
After reading the first few chapters of this book […]
Careless Obfuscation Can Lose You Business
Obfuscating code is important when attempting to keep your implementations safe, but done carelessly it can cause you business. While there are many obfuscation products for Java and .NET, there will always be industry leaders such as PreEmptive and Spices. Problems can occur when multiple components are obfuscated with the same products or […]
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