Will Beattie's Blog: SharpKit C# to Javascript Convertor

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I wish we could write our javascript in C#. Would make extensions so much easier.

Comic for March 24, 2011

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Funny reminder to stay focused on providing value

Comic for March 11, 2011

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We need more office supplies

Insights You Can Use » Blog Archive » Peer-to-Peer Feedback

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Bugars. Yummy.

Get/Load Polymorphism in NHibernate 3

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Nothing gets an OO zealot hot under the collar the way the term polymorphism does. You probably have three questions right now… What does polymorphism have to do with object-relational mapping? How does it relate to NHibernate? And why should I care?

I ran into this one before. Nice to see they are improving stuff. Wish the Linq Provider was at least as good as the old one

XP Practice: Whole Team | Agile Software Development

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This article talks about cross-functional teams versus functional teams. It also has some interesting links about what Kent Beck and James Shore have to say on this subject.

Generalizing Specialists: Improving Your IT Career Skills

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I wonder if generalizing specialist is an acceptable compromise?

InfoQ: Do Specialists Outperform Generalists on an Agile Team?

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An Agile team is mostly a cross functional team comprising of generalists and specialists. Jurgen Appelo, challenges this concept and suggests that having just specialists on an Agile team adds more value. The post tries to correlate various view points on team composition by other members of the Agile community.

Seems like it is not just our team that is split down the middle. Maybe the whole agile community is that way. I liked the post from Jeff Atwood. I wish more of the leaders would chime in.

henko.net » Cross-Functional Teams

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Here is an argument for specialists

InformIT: Agile Processes and Self-Organization > Resources

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Trying to figure out if cross-functional is included in the definition of self-organizing. Schwaber (creator of Scrum) lumps them together in this article.