The freedom of experimentation is crucial

If a software engineer has to struggle against lots of tedious work incorporating every single change then very often he simply abandons it and doesn’t change anything. In other words he would rather leave some poor solution that more or less works then replace it with something really valuable. His creativity is simply limited by the amount of additional effort that every change requires. Above problems can be caused by lack of proper tools, messy and unmaintainable code or even so trivial thing as slow workstation. There are people that don’t perceive it as a real problem but in my humble opinion they are wrong :).

Trying to understand lawyers...

I couldn’t be a lawyer but after watching this videoI’ve broadened my horizons :) and at least I can understand some of their decisions or to be precise why they have to be so calculating.

Do you need a tool that supports Contrac First approach - try WSCF 0.6!!!

Great guys from Thinktecture just released WSCF 0.6 for Visual Studio 2005 and .NET 2.0. I’ve been using it for a while and it saves lots of tedious, manual work. Give a try and you won’t regret!

Experience = Knowledge?

Nearly every job offer contains something like that: salary based on experience. It means that the more years of experience you have the better professional you are. It sounds reasonably but of course from time to time it’s not true and you always should check out skills of a person who applies for a job. It sounds reasonably too but I’ve been involved in more then 10 recruitment processes and only during literally 2 of them employer wanted to check my knowledge. The rest of them wanted to know only how many years/months of experience I have. They didn’t ask any technical questions, nothing. It’s incomprehensible, isn’t it?

Attending conference isn't equivalent to taking a break.

Very good article about how to approach personal development in the field of technology. It arrived just in time because I’m going to participate in Microsoft Architect Forum in Dublin and I can leverage some tips of Douglas.

Mono is very well - CCNET on Mono

Mono is well and it's getting even better.

Resonable comparison of a few AJAX frameworks for .NET

The comparison can be found here. It seems to be quite good and useful but there is one interesting thing. Author of the review is at the same time author of one of the analyzed frameworks. And his library seems to be the best one. Coincidence? Who knows :).