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Excellent advice. As soon as I understand the source code, I am going to try and understand the domain. Trying to understand both at once could get confusing. - Kurt Häusler

Absolutely. Technical Debt can not be kept a secret from customers, and I like the idea of putting a monetary value on it. - Kurt Häusler

Amen! Programming is merely one activity that software developers do while developing software. - Kurt Häusler

Amen! Programming is merely one activity that software developers do while developing software. - Kurt Häusler

Haha, I wonder why Mr Cyril Lotriet watched it then? - Kurt Häusler

Scott demonstrates once again why he is one of my favorite bloggers - Kurt Häusler

I always thought that software development had more in common with producing tv shows than with construction or engineering... - Kurt Häusler

Sharing for the quote: ‘Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.’ Robert Heinlein - Kurt Häusler

This post raises an interesting moral question. - Kurt Häusler

Sharing this for the last sentence: "*SOLID principles are not new and whizbangy. They’re a different name and face on what’s been known about OO since the first OO languages, and what every CS college student should have learned in OO design 101." - Kurt Häusler

Ahh the good old "responsibility without authority" gag. Always amuses me when bosses try to pull that stunt. - Kurt Häusler

"Thanks for answering. I guess I never considered python and java to be more linuxy than windowsy though. I probably have around 50/50 experience working professionally on unix and windows. Basically the first half of my career was unix, and the second half windows, mainly because there are a lot more jobs that met they pay and interest requirements in the windows area than unix. Interestingly the last unix job I had was C++ and Qt (on solaris, but just using a text editor rather than an ide). The first windows job I had was C++ and Qt too. The only difference was using an IDE with intellisense etc. Then came .net, which was pretty shitty at the beginning, but after stealing all the best ideas from the java world it became a pretty nice environment. I still look at the linux side of things, thinking mostly native though, not things like python and java that are the same on windows or linux, and progress seems a bit slower as far as tools go. Sure the python world is great, and in my..." - Kurt Häusler

"Is working in linux is really that much more fun than working in windows these days? What is the linux equivalent to doing a standard .net project with c# and/or f# in visual studio with resharper? What is the linux equivalent to communities like alt.net? Of course most of what you will do is totally independent of the operating system, if you are using languages that aren't explicitly supported by microsoft itself, developing in python or haskell is pretty much identical on linux or windows. I would like to hear from those who think linux really is a nicer development environment than windows, what tools are they using? Is there anything like ReSharper for linux for example? Maybe I am doing it wrong, but I play around with haskell on linux at home, using emacs and vim, and working with resharper at work seems like jumping 10 years into the future sometimes. And where are the "linux" IoC containers, mocking frameworks, and ORMs? Mercurial is better than TFS, I will agree to that, but..." - Kurt Häusler

"First menu. You can see the screenshots here: http://www.dcresource.com/reviews..." - Kurt Häusler

"Second menu. http://www.dcresource.com/reviews..." - Kurt Häusler

Hmm thats 2am German time... - Kurt Häusler

This is an excellent article, it basically sums up my most important beliefs about software development! - Kurt Häusler

Twitter is a free social messaging utility for staying connected in real-time - Kurt Häusler

Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Show off your favorite photos and videos to the world, securely and privately show content to your friends and family, or blog the photos and videos you take with a cameraphone. - Kurt Häusler

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Finding signal in the noise. - Kurt Häusler

Only to help Jesse with their experiment! - Kurt Häusler

A good overview of the agile community mostly in Germany. - Kurt Häusler

This article found that a distributed team works even better than a colocated one. - Kurt Häusler

These are great pointers not just for testability but for maintainability and software quality overall. - Kurt Häusler

Not sure I fully agree with Point 1, but interesting nonetheless. - Kurt Häusler

Great keynote. Wish I was there! - Kurt Häusler

I am seeing far too many blog entries that remind me of work these days. See the "But Still a Problem" section. - Kurt Häusler

Points 5 and 6 are pretty important. - Kurt Häusler

"If you are at all interested in playing high definition files (which tend to be compressed in h264) then forget VLC. It has the ffmpeg codec hard wired, which is pretty innefficient and can barely handle 720p on average machines, and cannot handle 1080p on even fast quad core machines. You need a player that uses standard directshow codecs, so you can use a more efficient x264 decoder like coreavc or cyberlinks one. Which player is less important than the codec. Zoom player works well for me." - Kurt Häusler

Whats with all the beerless Diggnation episodes lately?!? - Percival

Are they a new sponsor? I guess this means a new ac3 surround soundtrack. - Kurt Häusler from NoiseRiver

I liked the tea, but have to agree, whats with no beer?! - Tim Broder