Testing is the word of the day…
Grab Bag

Simon Baker points to a discussion on multi-tasking as a way to avoid prioritization.

Scott Hanselman discusses email signature etiquette.  Lots of examples.

A .NET Rocks interview with Adam Cogan pointed to his exhaustive list of “Rules & Standards“.  While you might not agree with every single one, you wouldn’t go wrong following them.
Test Driven Design 

While I find that TestDriven.com’s scores low on my personal signal-to-noise ratio (too many commercial announcements), you should keep an eye out for their monthly recap.  I would suggest subscribing to the newsletter version if you don’t want to deal with all the RSS announcements.  From my perspective, the best part is the blogosphere activity. Of particular note this month:

  • Alberto Savoia wonders why developer testing is not more prevalent.
  • Srinivas Ramgopal posted his teams experience with an XP project.  This sparked a lively discussion. The site banner alone is worth a look.
  • Jamis opines that with TDD, you should do UI first, not scaffolding.
  • James Carr talks about backseat driving when pair programming.  While I’ve had my share of backseat drivers, it wasn’t while pair programming…

Testing
DDJ’s Michael Hunter has an interesting interview with Bj Rollison. The best quote: “Anecdotal evidence suggests that less than 5% of testers have read more than 1 book on software testing”.  That boggles my mind!  I’m on the design side of things, but even I have read a few books on the subject!  Both Michael’s & Bj’s blogs are worth a read… *sigh*