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These are my new delicious links for July 30th:

• Demeter Helps You Fend Off the One True Constant: Change – John Teague’s Blog – Los Techies : Blogs about software, programming and anything tech!
  
• Branch-Per-Feature Source Control. Introduction – new ThoughtStream("Derick Bailey"); – Los Techies : Blogs about software, programming and anything tech!
  
• My ideal IDE – Jimmy Bogard – Los Techies : Blogs about software, programming and anything tech!
  
• Teach Yourself Graphic Design for Free
  
• Tests are not ‘Tasks’ you put on a backlog… – Derik Whittaker – Devlicio.us
  
• Evaluating GPS Receiver Accuracy With VisualGPS | Free Geography Tools
  
• CloudMade layoffs and the OSM Foundation | Weait.com
  

NASA has moved the SRTM tiles again (they are now stored under v2.1 directory, but I don’t know if there’s any difference in the content compared to the v2 version). So GroundTruth’s and Kosmos’ contours functionality stopped working.

Unfortunately I’m in the middle of a major refactoring of the whole of my OSM code in preparation for Kosmos v3 and support for other sources of DEM, so it’s kind of difficult to produce running versions of my software: the builds are broken, I’ve temporarily stopped my build server etc.

But I’ve decided to take a few hours and prepare a new build for GroundTruth at least (Kosmos will have to wait, too much changes in the code). Since I didn’t have much time to test it, it is “officially” marked as an experimental build, and I’ve put it under http://downloads.igorbrejc.net/osm/groundtruth/experimental/ directory (just use the ZIP with the latest date). I hope it works.

BTW: if NASA decides to move the tiles again, there’s a new setting in the configuration file (GroundTruth.exe.config):

<add key="SrtmServerUrl" value="http://dds.cr.usgs.gov/srtm/version2_1/"/>

You’ll be able to change the URL yourself this time

These are my new delicious links for July 28th:

• The MVC framework: maintaining TempData on cookies – LA.NET [EN]
  
• The Component Burden | Elegant Code
  
• 401 – What’s On Earth Tonight? « Strange Maps
  
• First looks at Garmin-Asus nuvifone G60 | GPS Tracklog
  
• Google Code Blog: Apollo 11 mission’s 40th Anniversary: One large step for open source code…
  

These are my new delicious links for July 21st:

• The Map Scroll: Mapping Peak Oil
  
• Slashgeo | The Moon in 3D in Google Earth Announced
  
• Introducing the Common Service Factory — IoC and WCF living in harmony – Jeremy D. Miller — The Shade Tree Developer – CodeBetter.Com – Stuff you need to Code Better!
  
• God No! …The ReBuilder
  
• Scott Hanselman’s Computer Zen – Hanselminutes on 9 – The .NET Micro Framework with Colin Miller
  

These are my new delicious links for July 21st:

• Introducing CodePaste.NET – Rick Strahl’s Web Log
  
• Can you remember? – Vintage computer parts compared with current ones. at What is special about Geospatial?
  
• The Map Room: Nearest Subway Augmented Reality App for iPhone
  I could use something like this for hiking
• The Map Room: Vinland Map Not a Forgery: Researchers
  
• Garmin Oregon 550t Unboxing (GPSmagazine.com)
  

Jeff Atwood discusses in his latest blog post the article written by Tom DeMarco, one of the most respected people in software engineering arena. It is a short article and I recommend reading it. I especially like the following paragraphs:

….This  leads us  to  the odd conclusion  that  strict  control  is  something  that matters  a  lot  on  relatively  useless  projects  and much  less  on  useful  projects.  It  suggests  that  the more you focus on control, the more  likely you’re working  on  a  project  that’s  striving  to  deliver something of relatively minor value.

and

So, how do you manage a project without  controlling  it? Well, you manage  the people  and  control  the  time  and money. You say to your team leads, for example, “I have a finish date in mind, and I’m not even  going  to  share  it with  you. When  I come  in  one  day  and  tell  you  the  project will end  in one week, you have  to be ready  to  package  up  and  deliver  what you’ve got as  the fnal product. Your  job is  to  go  about  the  project  incrementally, adding pieces to the whole in the order of their relative value, and doing integration and  documentation  and  acceptance  testing incrementally as you go.”

These are my new delicious links for July 19th:

• What I’ve Learned over the Last Five Years – Jeremy D. Miller — The Shade Tree Developer – CodeBetter.Com – Stuff you need to Code Better!
  
• Bits in Motion: Coming Soon: Gallio and MbUnit v3.1
  
• The Map Scroll: Northwest Passage Becoming Alarmingly Passable
  
• Remembering Apollo 11 – The Big Picture – Boston.com
  
• Slashgeo | World’s First 3D Webcam Tested
  

These are my new delicious links for July 17th:

• Best of OpenStreetMap Poster
  
• Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor
  
• Google Testing Blog: The Advantages of Unit Testing Early
  
• Just say no to ‘Poor Man’s Dependency Injection’. – Chad Myers’ Blog -
  
• Database ID: Int vs. BigInt vs. GUID – new ThoughtStream("Derick Bailey"); -
  

These are my new delicious links for July 15th:

• The Law of Demeter Is Not A Dot Counting Exercise
  
• Giving Your MVC Views an Identity – John Teague’s Blog -
  
• Google Testing Blog: Software Testing Categorization
  finally some spring-cleaning of the testing terminology. Although I still prefer "integration" to "functional" . Aren't all tests functional?
• The Map Room: Emily Yoffe on Her GPS: ‘A Cross Between Lady Macbeth and HAL 9000’
  
• Slashgeo | OpenStreetMap State of The Map 2009 News
  
• Open a Banana like a Monkey – Food – Lifehacker
  

These are my new delicious links for July 14th:

• Slashgeo | Release of Cartagen 0.5: Geographic Stylesheets
  
• Use The "Egyptian Method" to Sleep Well on a Hot Night – Heat Hacks – Lifehacker
  
• Ending the Era of Patronizing Language Design
  
• Lessons From My First Attempt At Bringing Agile Into A Non-Agile shop. – Polyglots R Us -
  
• How we handle application configuration – Joshua Flanagan
  
• Google Open Source Blog: Introducing WebDriver
  
• Painting with Maps
  
• Image:Movementdensity.png – OpenStreetMap