Tue, 14 Oct 2008
Links of the Day: June 26, 2008
Oil Price Fallout: Jobs Coming Home?
Sometimes cheap labour isn't enough... "As the cost of shipping continues to soar along with fuel prices, homegrown manufacturing jobs are making a comeback after decades of decline."
Virtual Geek: Answers to a bunch of questions
"I got a lot of questions on the 10GbE post, which is great. Some of the answers involve graphics, so rather than comments, I'm just going to do a post...."
Coding Horror: Revisiting the XML Angle Bracket Tax
"I wasn't trying to present it as "Oh, XML is bad...". What I was trying to say is why don't we think about what we're doing? ... Can we just stop programming for a minute to think about what we're doing and not make a blind choice...?"
Coding Horror: The Ultimate Code Kata
"Contrary to what you might believe, merely doing your job every day doesn't qualify as real practice. ... You have to set aside some time once in a while and do focused practice in order to get better at something."
Stevey's Home Page - It's Not Software
I do a lot of monitoring at work at this rang true: "... until you're actually measuring all your use cases, any one of them can potentially be unavailable without your knowledge. Hence availability monitoring always evolves into real-time QA."
