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I highly recommend this book to everyone in the business of building software. Before you attempt to automate your testing, read this book!

If you are in IT, I highly recommend reading this book.

Over the years Microsoft has not only moved my cheese, they have also quite often eaten it.

It is not all bad, but it is not all good either.

So this morning I go to my blog (http://realworldsa.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/), or what used to be my blog, and find it redirecting to www.ulitzer.com....

I have decided to push out another book recommendation blog. There have been a ton of books come out this year both good and bad. Please don't the Shiny Turds Books that do not Cut the Mustard *-Do not Buy-* section. It is next to the last in the list.

Microsoft has released a free 1000-page ebook by Charles Petzold entitled "Programming Windows Phone 7". It is actually pretty sweet, especially for free.

Personally PDC bored me to death (until Bob did his interview). I didn’t go, that may have kept me awake during the Keynote. I do not need to pay 5K a year to maintain a software license just so MS can help me develop HTML 5. EVERYONE will be doing that.

I get approximately a dozen phones calls and 15 emails a day when I put out my resume. If I answer just one of them, it is a good day. There are several reasons I don’t answer, and it baffles me as to why I received the call or email in the first place. Recruiters, to help you stop wasting your time, I have listed a few reason I won’t answer you.

As I look out across the industry at what companies are doing to employees, at least in IT, what I see disgusted me. Many companies are not refusing to pay because they can’t; they are refusing to pay because they want to take advantage of the current economy. Fear is holding employees prisoner to job conditions they normally would have never seen.

You can now register for the second of three webinars in a three-part series on Software Product Line Management.

Over the past 6 to 9 months I have interviewed with quite a few companies. The current economy has created a few new breeds of interviewer, breeds our field could do without.....

I recommend this book to anyone that wants a little more logic in their thought life. I really does put a new perspective on things.

Would you like to see patterns & practices Improving Web Services Security in a printed hard copy?

Get the Personal Software Process (PSP) Body of Knowledge Version 1.0.

The Microsoft Expression Community Team has done a great job on the new site.

Microsoft recently discovered that the VPCs we distributed as part of the VS2008 Beta2 release will expire on Thursday, November 1, 2007, much earlier than they had originally expected.

There are several BOK around today. Most of them are pretty cool and contain a lot of information, or at least a reference to a lot of information. Here are the BOKs I know about that relate to Software Development.

Spinal Tap will be playing London's Wembley on 07-07-2007. Take a 5 minute break and watch the Spinal Tap member update here. It is definitely worth checking out.