Don’t forget about the actual phone:

Michael Dorian Bach about the Windows Phone 7 platform.

I must say that I like the flat (yet multi-layered) user interface, although I haven’t used it yet myself. WP7 really needs a phone that fits this style.

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Programming Checklists:

Pilots use them, they get introduced in hospitals and often contain just basic items. But checklists are nonetheless very helpful. Why not use checklists for software development?

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Duisburg hat nicht einmal 500.000 Einwohner.

I say Agile, You say Traditional, Document-Driven:

Good answer about how to discuss with (potential) clients which don’t want to go agile.

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InfoQ: Architecture Strategies and Principles:

“The companies that do architecture best “staff” the majority of the architects to projects as core team members. This way, they are on the ground adding their expertise every day.”

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With this article I’d like to share my workflow for screening large batches of photos. Recently, I returned from an incredible hiking trip on Iceland with over 1000 photos. Of course, not all of those photos were worth keeping. Whenever I have to screen a large number of photos, I perform the following steps: In [...]

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