C# eBook

Free eBook on c#, Dissecting a C# Application

Dilbert...

Wally should have realised he was meant to write his own objectives, because "he owns his career".

Unit testing for SQL

SQL Unit Tests

MSDN Magazine

MSDN Magazine

Try Furling

Tired of unfurling, try furling instead.

Autism research

Brain inflammation link to autism

"Researcher Dr Carlos Pardo-Villamizar said: "These findings reinforce the theory that immune activation in the brain is involved in autism, although it is not yet clear whether it is destructive or beneficial, or both, to the developing brain.""

Ergnosis

A company called Ergnosis, in Bristol(!), developing an IDE. Apparently it does all sorts of things but doesn't allow you to manually edit the code yet. An interesting approach.

The Code Project

Lots of code at the Code Project

Patterns

An interesting book: Organizational Patterns of Agile Software Development

Googley things

Google Desktop Search is very nice and very fast. No more slow windows searches for me.

For some reason it makes me think of those Janet and John books...
"Bill looks at the computer.
The computer runs quickly.
See the computer run, Bill.
It is quick..."

However, I am not so sure about the GMail Drive shell extension. Is that allowed? When a company gives you something for free I think you should stick to the intended use.

It *is* rocket science

An interesting article on agile development being used at Lockheed Martin by a flight software development team. I liked the following line:
"Essentially, team members rely on traditional processes until they get in the way. They use the capability maturity model and concepts such as ISO, for example, but only as benchmarks for comparison and team process improvement."
In my experience it doesn't take very long before CMM and ISO start to get in the way of any project.

ASP.NET Resource kit

It's free, from Microsoft. Just like a free lunch, or free beer or something that doesn't cost anything...

Green energy

Keep eating the spinach, these sites have some more practical solar power panels...

Solar Panels and more and the Solar Trade Association.

Green boilers (which might come in other colours) and comparisons of boiler efficiency.

The Centre for Alternative Technology

Bristol and Somerset Energy Advice and The Energy Saving Trust

Comparing electricity suppliers

Java Server Faces

Java Server Faces

Spinach will save the world

Spinach powered solar cells. Hang on, it's not April is it?

Another XP practice

Everyone should be proficient at Extreme Unicycling.

Any browser

Web sites should be viewable with any browser.

End of message. Move along folks...

FIT test framework

FIT is a testing framework developed by Ward Cunningham. It's available in a variety of flavours including .NET.

Extreme Conferences

Two Extreme Conferences taking place in the UK:
XP Day 4 &
XP2005

Extreme Hour

Extreme Hour

Not to be confused with extremely late hour... zzzzz