Fred Yankowski

Suggests some cool applications to try out. - Fred Yankowski

This summarizes how to create and review software design documentation. - Fred Yankowski

"... lucky people generate good fortune via four basic principles. They are skilled at creating and noticing chance opportunities, make lucky decisions by listening to their intuition, create self-fulfilling prophesies via positive expectations, and adopt a resilient attitude that transforms bad luck into good." - Fred Yankowski

Example of how to use Yahoo Pipes, reading an RSS feed, filtering it, and feeding it to twitter on a scheduled basis. - Fred Yankowski

"My ... view was that Agile Methodologies are for chumps. But I've had a lot of opportunity to observe various flavors of Agile-ism in action lately, and I now think I was only about 90% right. It turns out there's a good kind of Agile, although it's taken me a long time to be able to see it clearly amidst all the hype and kowtowing and moaning feverishly about scrums and whatnot." - Fred Yankowski

"We are most productive when we focus on a very small number of projects on which we can devote a large amount of attention." - Fred Yankowski

"The predictive power of an anxiety-prone temperament, such as it is, essentially works in just one direction: not by predicting what these children will become but by predicting what they will not. In the longitudinal studies of anxiety, all you can say with confidence is that the high-reactive infants will not grow up to be exuberant, outgoing, bubbly or bold." - Fred Yankowski

Recommends a paper filing scheme and some guidelines for disposing of old documents. - Fred Yankowski

Very short discussion of the importance of interviews. - Fred Yankowski

Nice compendium of knots, with good photos and how-to-tie illustrations. - Fred Yankowski