Dates covered: October 6-12, 2014 (week 41 of 52)
Culture
- Why Nerd Culture Must Die (via Christine Jones)
- Trouble at the Koolaid Point (via Aly Fluckey, Elisabeth Hendrickson, Jen Myers, and Sean Mize)
- Successfully leading engineering teams (via Rich Rogers)
- Professionals Aren’t Self-taught (via 8th Light Blog)
- 24 People, No Managers: Our New Experiment in Getting Work Done at Buffer (via Software Lead Weekly)
- Well, He’s Not Going to Get Very Far (via Software Lead Weekly)
- The Omission of Why (via Software Lead Weekly)
- Move Fast and Break Nothing (via Software Lead Weekly)
Communication
- Five Ways to Tell a Battle Isn’t Worth Fighting (via Lifehacker)
- Help Vampires: A Spotter’s Guide (via Phillip Andreason)
- Power Up Your Team with Non-violent Communication Prinicples (via the “44 Engineering Management Lessons” article linked below)
- The Seven Types of E-mail and How to Deal with Them (via Lifehacker)
- The Emotional Boundaries You Need at Work (via Lifehacker)
Economics
Management
- Six Characteristics of a Highly Effective Team (via Lifehacker)
- 44 engineering management lessons (via Rich Rogers)
- 10 Team Motivations and How to Fix Them (via Cameron Presley)
- The Art of the OKR
- Are You an Unwitting Audience to Productivity Theater? (via Software Lead Weekly)
Motivation
- How to succeed when you have no special skills (via Phillip Andreason)
- Distractions Aren’t a Problem, It’s When They Occur (via Lifehacker)
- Knowledge Workers are Bad at Working (and Here’s What to Do About It…) (via Software Lead Weekly)
Software
- .NET Rocks! 1044: CQRS Update with Udi Dahan (via .NET Rocks!)
- Command-Query Separation
- Normalization is for Sissies
- .NET Rocks! 1045: Battling Technical Debt while Keeping the Lights On with Jim Holmes (via .NET Rocks!)
- .NET Rocks! 1046: Building Big MVC Projects with Jimmy Bogard (via .NET Rocks!)
- Barry’s Rules of Engineering and Architecture (via The Morning Brew)
- Level One: The Intro Stage (via Coding Horror)
- The Featuritis Curve (via Software Lead Weekly)
- How to Avoid One of the Costliest Mistakes in Software Engineering (via Software Lead Weekly)
- ChessTDD 18: RemovePiece and Housekeeping (via Eric Dietrich)
Technology
- The Coolest Windows 10 Features Microsoft Didn’t Announce (via Lifehacker)
- FlexSense from Microsoft Research (via Microsoft Research YouTube channel)
- Getting Small Stories (via Kevin Rankin)
- In-Air Gestures Around Unmodified Mobile Devices (via Microsoft Research YouTube channel)
- RichReview: Blending Ink, Speech, and Gesture to Support Collaborative Document Review (via Microsoft Research YouTube channel)
- RoomAlive: Magical Experiences Enabled by Scalable, Adaptive Projector-Camera Units (via Microsoft Research YouTube channel)
- Sensing Techniques for Tablet+Stylus Interaction (via Microsoft Research YouTube channel)