Ahh…ya gotta love the first day of a long, 5–day weekend.  And for what it’s worth, I don’t have an Xbox 360 yet.  One of my loser friends (you know who you are) has one and went on and on about how cool it was.  Mike, if you’re reading this….BITE ME.

Sahil Malik has a good refresher on indexes.

Software developers ‘abandoned’ by management.
“While two-thirds of software developers polled for the study felt that senior managers should share the responsibility for ensuring software quality, almost 70 per cent said that senior management did not take that responsibility.”

Considering that most “senior” managers don’t even understand what software developers do or how to use the software they have on their super high-end, pimped-out laptops, this doesn’t surprise me.  Hell, I report directly to the CIO and the topic of quality has only recently come up.   Found here.

Eric Wise defines different types of superhero and super villain programmers.  Which one are you?  I work with some “Copy and Paste” super villains.  I like this quote: “The communicator is damn near useless in an internal shop with highly technical users.  Like Aquaman without a dolphin.”  Can I just say that Aquaman is by far, the most useless superhero….not even worthy of being called a superhero.  

Mitch Denny has several posts that dive into some of the nitty gritty details for the skills being measured on an upcoming Microsoft exam (70-536).  Good stuff.  I’m not going to link to each of his posts, but I will link to the first one on
Value types and nullable types.

This is actually an older post, but I just recently found it.  “What Managers Should Know About Web Developers“

Scott Bellware has a great example of TDD.  If you’ve never done TDD and aren’t sure how to get started, this is a good place.  Make sure you check out this post while you’re there.

Have a great Thanksgiving!

Now playing: Phil Collins – In The Air Tonight – Phil Collins