Do two posts in a day  make up for missing Tuesday?

.NET

Brad Abrams points to a study about the savings achieved by ClickOnce deployment…$36,500. From the Microsoft Internal HR Application department.

Agile

An interesting article about Lockheed Martin using an Agile approach for the new F-35 jet.  Talk about a Scrum of Scrums…

A podcast with Jim Trott and Alan Shalloway about the value of Lean-Agile development.

Community

Larry O’Brien has prior art for a dubious patent: “Hyperlinking from a CD to the web”.  I suspect PubPat would welcome his help.

Scott Bellware has a plan for Microsoft…if he was king for a day.

Design

Uncle Bob ponders Coding Styles. They are a good thing, but it should just be about style, not content. Consistency should rule.  The problem I run into is that I use about 6 different IDEs (Visual Studio Classic, 2005, VB 6.0, 3 flavors of embedded IDE).  I would love having 1 editor, customize it, have the macros setup for comments & auto-styling. Ever tried to use slackEdit to do VB 6.0?

Tim Ottinger has an intro to auto_ptr and Single ownership in C++.  Good stuff…if only our C++ code was VC 8 vintage…