Caffeinated Coder

I spent all my blogging time this week brushing up on my paltry Ruby on Rails skills for an upcoming personal project and reading a most excellent book called  The Kite Runner, my first foray into non-brain candy fiction in over a year.

Here’s a few link recommendations to tide you over until I get inspired again to pull another real post out of my arse.

1. Software Development’s Classic Mistakes 2008 – Don’t let the page count (40) on this white paper from Steve McConnell, the author of the classic book Code Complete, scare you off. It’s really a pretty quick and informative read with updated stats and insight about the most common mistakes that lead to project failures. While many of the catalogued mistakes are common sense, I came across a few thought provoking ones regarding excessive multi-tasking, noisy\crowded offices, inappropriate outsourcing, and over-estimating savings from new tools and methods that I’ll probably spin off into future posts.
2. Epiphany on a plumber – A nicely written personal anecdote by Kyle Baley (Coding Hillbilly) about the intersection between passion and communication. As JP’s “Develop with Passion” mantra becomes more and more ingrained into our collective developer psyches, it’s good to get an occasional reminder about the importance of taking your audience into consideration before unleashing our new found passion upon some poor, unsuspecting soul.
3. For Fun: 1 minute video showing condition 1 conditions in Antarctica: – Winter is just around the corner, so I couldn’t resist sharing this eye-opening video I came across on the Kickin’ In the Darkness blog. Suddenly my childhood memories of Michigan winters don’t seem so impressive anymore.

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