January 2008 - Posts - Trumpi's blog

January 2008 - Posts

Your top 5 blogs

Question: If you could read only 5 blogs, which blogs would you read?

You can either post it in the comments or write your own post linking here.

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Our daily link (2008-01-15)

I'm quietly spending my last week of leave at home...

Agile and Project Management

Misc

Career stuff

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Our daily link (2008-01-13)

Going to watch Elton John tonight, so this post is a little early.

Agile

Web services

New blogs

  • Gray Matter - A blog by Gray Knowlton primarily focusing on the MS Office "Open Xml" formats.

Career stuff

Misc

Podcasts

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Our daily link (2008-01-12)

I'm back from holiday with over 1000 feeds to read. I also got my new gigabit router today. Heard bad things about it from Amazon, but we'll have to see...

Agile

Software

Career stuff

  • Billy Martin's Technique for Managing his Manager - I've used this one once or twice :)
  • No Matter What They Tell You, It's a People Problem - "Do you like the company of your teammates on a personal level? Do you respect your teammates professionally? If you were starting at another company, would you invite your coworkers along? Do you have spirited team discussions or knock-down, drag-out, last man standing filibuster team arguments? Are there any people on your team you'd "vote off the island" if you could?"

SQL

  • What's wrong with COUNT(*)? - A look at the performance implications of COUNT(*). (Hint: There doesn't seem to be any for SQL Server 2005 SP2.)

Misc

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Our daily link (2008-01-02)

I've been checking out JQuery today. It is fantastic!

C#

SQL

Misc

Web

Humour

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Our daily link (2008-01-01)

Happy new year! And no, I didn't get an MVP award.

Podcasts

MVP Awards

Misc

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