Brian Di Croce

Passionate about developing and delivering better software with .NET

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For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect. (Matthew 5:46-48, NIV)

Archive for January, 2008

Jan
27
2008

At the end of the interview with Dick Gabriel (Episode #84 of the Software Engineering Radio), the host surprises us with the funniest song in software development to date IMHO…’God Wrote In LISP‘. Software development with se-radio.net…I’m loving it!
Here are the lyrics to the song (from the Laugh along with GNU page of the GNU […]

Jan
25
2008

Starting this week, I’ll post a weekly post on recommended links to interesting, educating, and entertaining stuff concerning the world of software development and related technologies. Most of these links point to blog posts, published articles, podcasts, screencasts, news, etc., that I feel like sharing with my fellow developers at work and on this site. […]

Jan
21
2008

In my last semester at university, I had the opportunity to attend a graduate class dealing with software maintenance, taught by Professor Alain April. In case you don’t know who he is, Dr. April is responsible for creating the Software Maintenance Maturity Model (S3M). Here’s an overview of that model :
We address the assessment and […]

Jan
4
2008

 

Written by Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of SalesForce.com, “The Business of Changing the World” is a wonderful and inspiring collection of twenty essays written by great leaders on strategic corporate philanthropy. Amongst these leaders who each wrote their essays, we find

Michael Dell and Kevin Rollins of Dell
Craig Barrett of Intel
Marc Benioff […]

Jan
2
2008

I took some time this morning to read two simple, funny and excellent articles, which I’d highly recommend if you have a couple of minutes to spear. Both articles are written by different authors, but they both converge to the same principles and ideas which I believe in my heart should never be forgotten: “By […]

Jan
1
2008

For this review, I decided to target a technical book which I think should be on every software enthusiast bookshelf. Whether you’re a computer science or software engineering student, a software professional, manager, consultant or trainer, you will NOT regret reading Head First Design Patterns by Eric and Elisabeth Freeman, from O’Reilly. I think […]