I have stumbled upon a few very interesting ideas in Douglas Hofstadter’s book Godel, Escher, Bach. Although the book deals with something completely unrelated to software, we can apply those ideas to improve software development.

Martin Parry from Microsoft’s Developer and platform group presented the upcoming server version of IIS 7 last week in Reading. The new version has some really interesting features that will make life easier for developers.

Jeff Patton from Thoughtworks held a very interesting session at XpDay last month in London, focusing on a common misconception that causes “agile” projects to fall into the same trap that the waterfall ones typically do.

Best practices for agile development with legacy databases