The collected works of others

This is an assortment of links to articles and posts that I found interesting at one point or another. I’ve collected these over the past couple of years in various places for various reasons.  Now they’re all in one place in no particular order so you’ll have to just read them all.  Enjoy.

“Anxiety is nothing but repeatedly re-experiencing failure in advance” – Seth Godin

• Scaling Up vs. Scaling Out: Hidden Costs
• Software Engineering:An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone? –Tony DeMarco’s about-face regarding tightly controlling software engineering projects
• My version of Agile – Alan Cooper
• OS Evolution – Rocky Lhotka
• Teach for America founder on the pointlessness of planning, the importance of saying no, etc
• Booting from a VHD
• Promiscuous title #1: Vice president
• Beware managers with free time
• What does it cost to become PCI Compliant?
• The Duct Tape Programmer – Joel Spolsky
• Using the New Microsoft Ajax Minifier
• Figuring out what your company is all about – Joel Spolsky
• It is only 8, how can it be legacy??? – Rocky Lhotka
• How Chipotle, Pinkberry, and others win big by doing just a few things well - The dirty little secret about simple: It’s actually hard to do
• Weasel words and the absurdity of corporate speak
• Jim Collins and the "stop doing" list
• Cultivate Teams, Not Ideas – Jeff Atwood
• Headcount
• How to Scale Up Quickly – Steve McConnell
• PCI Compliance and the cost of a credit card breach
• AutoPex
• Transitioning to Scrum: Selecting the Product Owner
• A New Way of Working: A Two-Month Recap
• VB and C# Coevolution
• Who is NOT happy
• Cobblestones On The Road to Perdition
• If You Want To Improve, Stop Managing Your Problems…
• Travel Restrictions and Offshore Development – Steve McConnell
• Profits = Freedom
• The Opposite of Fitts' Law
• Work on your best idea
• Common ground – Alan Cooper
• Ranking tech companies by revenue per employee
• To Pivot, Or Not To Pivot
• Add Work to Shorten Your Schedule
• The interruption tax
• Everybody wants to be Michael Jordan
• A “computer free” future? – Rocky Lhotka
• Who do you work for? (And who works for you?) – Seth Godin
• Things I learned at Agile Up To Here – Alan Cooper
• The 3 maturity stages of a software team and how scrum fails to identify them
• What's the point?
• On the use and misuse of patterns – Rocky Lhotka
• Facebook is not worth $33,000,000,000
• CSLA 4 Executive Overview slides