Marquee de Sells: Chris's insight outletThoughts that Chris Sells has about whatever interests him that dayNobody Knows Shoes: The Book -- Pure Genius!- March 22, 2008 I friend of mine dropped a book with a funny cover in my lap and said, "Hey, check this out." I threw it on my pile and didn't get back to it for a few days. When I did, I didn't know what to make of it. It was like The Grapes of Wrath by Rory Blyth, with illustrations by a drunk Salvador Dali. It took a few pages, but I eventually figured out that "Shoes" was a cross-platform GUI framework for Ruby and this 52-page book was a tutorial for it. By page 15, I knew the major concepts. By page 20,..http://sellsbrothers.com/news/showTopic.aspx?ixTopic=2177 Anyone know anyone in the TV industry- March 17, 2008 Don turned me onto the Walking Dead series of "graphic novels" (I'm too proud to call them "comic books!") and I loved them. I read volumes 1-4 in one day when I should've been doing other things. Don thinks that they're good enough for a Lost-esque style 10pm cable TV show and I agree. The interplay of characters and watching them fall apart under the pressure is fascinating. The zombies are there, but it's mostly a background thing, like IRS agents when you forget to include the check (I...http://sellsbrothers.com/news/showTopic.aspx?ixTopic=2176 Do you want to host the WF workflow and rules designer- March 14, 2008 If so, fill in this survey and tell the WF team what you want. They really want to know.http://sellsbrothers.com/news/showTopic.aspx?ixTopic=2175 On Beyond Unit Testing- March 8, 2008 Quetzal Bradley is a software development engineer (SDE) on my team with tons of experience in all manner of infrastructure stuff including the requirements of real-world software testing from the trenches at Microsoft. Q gave a talk about what comes after unit testing to my team and I was blown away, so I sent him to tell Scott about it so that you could hear it, too. Enjoy.http://sellsbrothers.com/news/showTopic.aspx?ixTopic=2174 My Favorite Blog: Scott's computerzen.com- March 4, 2008 If I have time to read the web, I go to digg.com first, computerzen.com second and very little after that. Just this morning, I enjoyed Six Months in the Inside - Am I evil yet, Amazon Kindle and LINQ to Everything - LINQ to XSD adds more LINQiness. The Kindle review was especially enlightening because it was the first one I've read that actually a) covered the stuff I care about and b) pushed me off the fence about whether I want one (I do!).http://sellsbrothers.com/news/showTopic.aspx?ixTopic=2173 Programming WPF: "Programming Book of the Decade"- March 3, 2008 blushhttp://sellsbrothers.com/news/showTopic.aspx?ixTopic=2172 |