Our daily link (2008-01-15)

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

Agile and Project Management

Why do Some Projects Continue to Push Unrealistic Software Development Schedules? - it makes no sense in the long run.
Continuous Integration: From Theory to Practice 2nd Edition - Nice booklet on builds.
Use Cases vs. User Stories
TDD Is Also An Organizational Process

Misc

Understanding version control - I was naive. This is a good read highlighting all of the different forms of version control. Contrary to my belief, there is more that 3 kinds.
TypeMock Snippets For Visual Studio - I'm installing these. It will probably shave several minutes of my unit testing time.
SSIS vs. CSV - Ayende complains about one of the many shortcomings of SSIS - lack of proper CSV support.
COALESCE function instead of long CASE WHEN ... ELSE (T-SQL) - Nice SQL tip
Build your own CAB #17: Boil down the "wiring" to a Registry - the latest in Jeremy D. Miller's series on the MVP pattern.

Career stuff

No Silver Programmers - "The significant thing is not that some professional programmers are awesome, it's that some professional programmers suck." Larry O'Brien challenges the notion that the best developers are 20x more efffective than the worst.
Heroes and Villains - This article looks at how we are cultivating an anti-team mentality in the software industry.
You Are Creating Bugs In Your Software
Yet another reason to raise my rates
Bad Programmers Are Not Good Programmers Who Are Slow
Why Your Manager Doesn’t Like To Throw Away Work (And You Do) [via Link Listing]

Published Tuesday, January 15, 2008 9:10 PM by trumpi

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