Software Development Carnival

This is the Second Edition of the Software Development Carnival

The Business of Developing Software

Jonathan Danylko has written a great piece about the lessons he’s learned developing software: 20/20: Top 20 Programming Lessons I’ve Learned in 20 Years.

Basil Vandegriend wites about ensuring our applications are portable in Architecting for Deployability and Designing for Deployability

Alik rambles on in This is How They will Hack Your Web Site – which gives some idea about the way your web application will be attacked.

Tools

Scott Hanselman writes static analysis with NDepend Exiting The Zone of Pain – Static Analysis with NDepend. Sweet tool.

Jeremy Miller has The Anti Team a hialiarous look at practices that will destroy team (BTW as of the time of posting the codebetter.com site was down). Ayende chimes in with a few more.

A blast from the past – Philip Seyfi tells about the efforts of two employees of Telenor, the largest Norwegian telecommunications company.

Clinton Forbes asks Do you still buy computer books? – Unlike Clinton the answer is yes. I buy a few development books and a lot of Agile (and Project Management) related books.

Perlov Konstantin presents Omega Mapping posted at ConceptDraw Lab, saying, “Recently I came across interesting thinking technique that extends traditional mind mapping. The author has named it Omega Mapping and placed its detailed description in his blog. The only problem is that the description is in Russian I decided to post the briefly translated description of Omega mapping.”

Giveaway of the day dediated to giving away a piece of software a day. Featured recently: FTP Synchronize, ConceptDraw MINDMAP 4 (I wished I’d known about it.) Gotta mention this one to Andrey of MyLifeOrganized fame.

Last of all from Online Education Database: Hacking Knowledge: 77 Ways to Learn Faster, Deeper, and Better

Humour

Goodbye Clippy – Gone to the great bit bucket

Backup Blues

Finally a gentle reminder. This carnival is about software development (and the tools that make it easier to do). Submissions that aren’t relevant will be ignored.

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