A little scrum action.....

ref: http://news.webshots.com/photo/1139495730055267691hKdWsv

Failed. Are we?

Very interesting idea to have ‘why this project would fail’ survey among the team members for getting the feedback and determine the project bottle necks. In small teams it is being done by everyday close communication, but in bigger projects this might be a very good idea.

Very slow VS2005 debugging

I've been wrestling with the code for the past 2 weeks and got very poor debug performance. Not to mention that prior I've reinstalled the OS along with all the programs. Anyway, If you got extremely poor performance of debugging managed code in VS 2005 try to turn on Native Code debugging option when attaching to the process. Not sure why, but it improved the speed dramatically in my case.

Opportunistic development

Very interesting ideas in one of the articles from MS. Worth to read despite of the title ;)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/arcjournal/bb906065.aspx

An E-Book Reader That Just May Catch On

Not to mention ukrainian analog of the device http://www.lbook.com.ua/en

Agile Modeling and the Rational Unified Process (RUP)

Agile Modeling and the Rational Unified Process (RUP)

http://www.agilemodeling.com/essays/agileModelingRUP.htm

Implementing Ajax.NET-based Lookup Server Control

http://www.codeproject.com/Ajax/ajaxnet_lookup_control.asp

Building Secure ASP.NET Applications: Authentication, Authorization, and Secure Communication

http://msdn.microsoft.com/security/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnnetsec/html/SecNetch08.asp

Resources and Localization for .Net 2.0

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/05/basicinstincts/default.aspx

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