CodeMash is a wonderful conference. This will be the second year of the conference and it’s well worth your time to attend. Unfortunately, I’m not going to make it this year (baby on the way), but I would highly recommend that you check it out if you get a chance.
There’s a great lineup of talks with some great speakers (Scott Hanselman, Jim Holmes, Neal Ford, Bruce Eckel, Joe O’Brien, Dave Donaldson, Josh Holmes, Dick Wall, and many others).
It’s certainly $175 well spent.
I was excited to see James put up 22books. The site is off to a great start and reading is something that I’m very passionate about. I read a lot of books and I frequently check in with others about what they are reading.
A tradition that I’ve had over the past ten or so years of my career has been to ask others “What books have you read that have changed your life?”
I ask this question for a couple of reasons…
I’ve asked this to quite a few people over the years. I’ve asked co-workers, friends, managers, CEOs, and clients. Over the years of asking this question, I’ve never regretted it (although I have had some people that declined to answer it).
I love that James has integrated this concept into 22books as a list category. I’m excited to see what others add to their list.
If you’re interested, my list is published on the site. Some of these books are fairly straight-forward in their contribution to my favorites list and others have stories behind them. Regardless of the history, I can certainly recommend all of them.
Happy reading!
From The Tao Of Programming…
A manager went to the master programmer and showed him the requirements document for a new application. The manager asked the master: “How long will it take to design this system if I assign five programmers to it?’”
“It will take one year,’” said the master promptly.
“But we need this system immediately or even sooner! How long will it take if I assign ten programmers to it?”
The master programmer frowned. “In that case, it will take two years.”
“And what if I assign a hundred programmers to it?”
The master programmer shrugged. “Then the design will never be completed,” he said.
So true.
Stay small.
Big Visible Cruise has moved up to 0.5.
Here are the highlights…
All of the new items are mostly documented in the BigVisibleCruise.exe.config file in the 0.5 zip file.
If you are going to use BVC, you need to make sure that your cruise implementation exposes project XML over http (take a look at the config file for some examples).
Now that these items are implemented, the fun stuff should start soon. I want to get some new visualizations in before the 1.0 release.
It’s still somewhat rough around the edges, but it seems to work pretty good so far.
If you run into any issues (or have any enhancement requests), you can put them in as issues on the project site.
