Archive for the 'LinkBlog' Category

Links for 2007-08-23

Here are some snippets from my Google shared items… would you be interested in seeing a link blog post like this everyday? Or would you rather have a linkblog feed like Daring Fireball’s Linked List?

Who wants to live in The Real World?

The Real World must be a truly depressing place to live. […]

Favorite Fixtional Species: Yoshi

Yoshis have a limited social structure, shown in multiple RPGs as living in villages with a few wooden constructions. However, Yoshis inhabit many areas of the world, from the Mushroom Kingdom to Isle Delfino.

I am glad people spend time writing about Yoshi for Wikipedia.

Switched to Google reader; subscribe to my shared items.

I switched from Bloglines to Google Reader months ago and was planning on adding a linkblog feed here that combined del.icio.us with shared items, but I’m lazy… so for now go subscribe to my Google Reader shared items.

Simple Security: A platoon of dolphins and sea lions

Okay, so let’s review: the Navy has a whole pile of nuclear weapons on the Hood Canal, and their security solution is focused on a platoon of dolphins and sea lions? Dolphins with Frickin Laser Beams

Who’s going to make the extra tutorials and better docs?

Answer: your user community. User Community and ROI

Wow. <– really, it’s not just a vista ad.

Pair Programming

You haven’t lived until you’ve experienced a successful pair programming session. Once you have, you’ll probably feel that programming on your own is incredibly unproductive. Oh… and it’s also great for improving your communication skills; something us programmer/coder/developer types often lack.

Pair Programming is the process where two developers work together on […]

Test Driven Shell Script Development? Heck yes!

From Opensourcetesting.org News

shUnit2 is a xUnit based unit testing framework for shell scripts (eg. sh, bash) that is modeled after the JUnit framework. It is designed to make unit testing in shell as simple as possible.

What? Wearing a yellow dragon costume isn’t normal?

The first time I met Jeremy was just after he walked through the door at Northern Voice. I think the first words out of my mouth were “Whoa, what is up with that dude?” This, of course, was because he showed up in a yellow dragon costume, complete with hat and tail. […]

Microsoft Patterns & Practices: Performance Testing Guidance Project

Microsoft has opened up the Patterns & Practices: Performance Testing Guidance Project on CodePlex. Looks like a good collection of articles and knowledge for Performance testing on the Windows/Team System platform.

Welcome to the patterns & practices Performance Testing Guidance project Community site. The purpose of this project is to […]

How to secure your concealed weapon at the King County Courthouse

Via Seattle Metroblog:

How to secure your concealed weapon at the King County Courthouse via LiveJournal I get asked this a lot by people who know I carry and where I often go for work.