Saturday, May 21, 2011

On Founding a Software House

Startup advice, from @JamesFallows

Friday, May 20, 2011

Estimation in consulting

A look at one shop’s way of estimating, viewing inventory as hours.

SQL Azure Management REST API

With some examples. From @mknz

Facebook simulated entire data center prior to launch

Finding and squashing invalid assumptions that can creep into code

Facebook: An Example Canonical Architecture for Scaling Billions of Messages

The Carrying-Cost of Code: Taking Lean Seriously

Interesting point: code is inventory

Seven Rules for Beginning Programmers

I especially like 7, practice practice practice.

So, you know everything about text, right?–part X

A look at the SecureString Class

Layer Styles

Cool online CSS generator from @mrflix

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Debugging Windows Azure–Getting Tools onto the VM, Part 1