Link Round-Up for 9/13/07

September 13th, 2007

Here are a few of the links I discovered this week.

First of all, I was looking for a quick way to format some XML on a ASP.NET web page for a quicky test project. This led me to XML Lab and their eXml control. If you’re looking for info on XML and .NET, you don’t want to miss their site.

Derek Slager has put together a nice AJAX online regular expression tester. Pretty neat stuff.

Venkat Reddy Chintalapudi has a nice blog on testing that has several great articles. I ran across this one linked from DZone: Non Reproducible Bugs - How to deal with them ? He has a lot of good stuff from the testing perspective so spend some time on his site.

I found this site, HackNot, and they had this article/story, If They Come, How Will They Build It?, that dealt with issue of ’secret tribal knowledge’ when someone new comes into a project. The email exchange sounds all too familar.

Over at d’bug Stephanie gives a review of a retail site’s redesign in this article: Kohls.com — when a redesign goes slightly awry. My take on the redesign is that this is a good example of what you see when large to mid sized brick-and-morter retailers go online and of a semi-failed project in general. Costs, schedules, and key development steps were probably cut to get the new site online by September 1 ahead of the Christmas shopping season. Make sure you read the rest of Stephanie and Brian’s blog. They’ve got a lot of interesting articles there.

If you’re in the mood for a laugh, check out Scrum Cartoons. Funny stuff.

Lastly, Mark Savage has a nice set of articles about the costs of firing a ‘bad developer’ (Part 1, Part 2). He has some good points to ponder before you decide to ‘flip the bozo bit’ on a developer.

That’s all for this week. Let me know of any .NET or general software development sites you think I should check out by leaving me a comment or using the Contact Me button.

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