Here are the links that I’ve found notable over the past week.
Work related:
- 10 Rules to Manage your Boss – Jacques Horovitz
Useful advice for making the working relationship with your boss more productive for both of you. - Best Practices for Risk Free Deployment
Focuses more on the ‘What’ instead of the ‘How’, but interesting none the less. - What Programmers Do – Eugene Lazutkin
A rant that reveals a couple of best practices when dealing with complex systems. - High Level Best Practices in Software Configuration Management – Laura Wingerd & Christopher Seiwald
From the Perforce site, but not specific to any particular software. A good read since our SCM has languished over the past year.
Fun stuff:
- Popurls.com
An aggregation of feeds from popular sites such as Digg, Del.icio.us and furl, amongst others. - Thai Lao Food Blog
A great food blog that is just starting. Manivan Larprom offers authentic Thai/Lao recipes passed on from her parents and includes helpful videos. - A Collection of Letters Selected and Annotated
Guy Petzall has spent a good chunk of his life writing letters asking why we don’t harvest milk form pigs, what the qualifications for the judge on $100,000 Pyramid are and what the heck Grimace is. These are those letters.
Chris Lamothe is a software developer flourishing in Banff, Canada.
