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Monthly Archives: January 2008

Don’t document your process!

Yesterday, a Slashdot article asked an age-old question: One of the worst problems [in my company] is a lack of process documentation. All knowledge is passed down via an oral tradition. Someone gets hit by a bus and that knowledge is lost forevermore. Now I know what I’ve seen in the past. There’s the big-binder-of-crap-no-one-reads [...]

Speaking, training and writing

We’ve been keeping ourselves busy! What’s that? You want to know more? Well, certainly. We’ve got lots of news: Jenny and I are doing some guest blogging on the Head First Labs website, talking about what it’s like writing a Head First book (and whatever else we feel like talking about). I’ll be doing the [...]

Whoa…

Well, we didn’t see this coming. Check out what Tim O’Reilly says in his latest blog post: I was probably most surprised when I saw Programming WCF Services on our list of top performing books for the year. If you’re steeped in open source, you might never have heard of Windows Communications Foundation, Microsoft’s approach [...]