RIF Notes #21

These posts, originally intended to be weekly, are coming much less frequently. Oh well…

“The fantasy model of collaborative design reflects a monumental unconcern about conceptual integrity. Jill pats the design here; Jim nudges it there; Jack patches it yonder. It is spontaneous; it is collaborative; and it produces poor designs. Indeed, we know the process so well that we have a scornful name for it—committee design. If collaboration tools are designed so they encourage committee design, they will do more harm than good” – Frederick P. Jr. Brooks

• Better remote collaboration will make protectionism harder- A case for the economic advantage of remote work.
• On Knowledge – “There are three kinds of knowledge: what you know you know, what you know you don't know, and what you don't know you don't know”
• Michael Montgomery of IDesign points out a major gap in Agile, the lack of architecture.
  • Able Architecture: Part II
  • Agile and the Architect
• Silverlight is "Dead"- Rocky talks about what it means for a technology to be ‘dead’.
• Port Bridge - Building “hybrid” cloud applications where parts of an an app lives up in a cloud infrastructure and other parts of the infrastructure live at a hosting site, or a data center, or even in your house ought to be simple – especially in this day and age of Web services.
• C# 5.0: More Than Just Async – Very cool caller information that obsoletes the need to walk the stackframe.
• Give Your Classes a Software Contract – Code Contracts seem like a useful practice.
• BI Components for Business Value- Each data warehouse/business intelligence (DW/BI) lifecycle iteration delivers a coherent, incremental data set that provides value to the organization and can be implemented in a relatively short time frame
• Cache busting in ASP.NET – Looks like a fairly straightforward way to do it.
• Cost to enable side-loading on a Windows 8 device
• On the Dark Side of "Craftsmanship"- Ted Neward questions software craftsmanship.
• Surefire Ways To Destroy Employee Morale- My new years resolution is to hit all 9 this year.
• SQL Server Backup and Restore to Cloud Simplified
• Introduction to Service-Orientation-  appendix from Programming WCF Services by Juval Lowy.

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