Geeks in the West Country

Inventing:

• James Dyson on living a life of failure, via 37 Signals

Programming:

• What ASP.NET developers should know about JavaScript, via Scott Allen
• Adventures in JavaScript testing – from last year’s RailsConf Europe
• Ruby for c# geeks – Ruby is great for lots of tasks, even when working with .NET (e.g. Watir) – now Microsoft have announced IronRuby you probably want to have a look at it…
• A free refactoring tool for ASP.NET, via Brad Abrams – we use Resharper here but Refactor! this looks like it fills in some of the HTML refactoring that Resharper misses…

Project management:

• Remember that targets are not estimates, via Scott Hanselman, and Craig Andrea’s followup
• Tips for successful team lead, via Roy Osherove
• Jeremy Miller on Retrospectives
• The dire consequences of fixed price IT projects

Recruitment:

• The war for talent is back