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Monthly Archives: January 2008

Don’t document your process!

Thursday, January 31, 2008

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 method, [...]

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Speaking, training and writing

Monday, January 28, 2008

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 [...]

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Whoa…

Friday, January 11, 2008

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, [...]

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