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This was just a fun diversion of hearing what it's like to work at the South Pole. If you're footloose and fancy-free, have a craving for adventure, or are very driven to be cold you may want to try landing a position in Antarctica. One Hell of a Long Day - A Summer Working at the South Pole (David Pablo Cohn) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBaQtsft2bM

I've been a fan of Jim McCarthy since I heard a recorded session of his talk at one of the Microsoft developer conferences back in the 90s. The thoughts represented are echoed in Agile practices today. There is a nice set of short videos at: http://www.mccarthyshow.com/the-23-rules-of-thumb/ which are also available on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/McCarthyShow#g/u He also has a recent (Dec 2013) keynote at InfoQ: Culture Hacking http://www.infoq.com/presentations/culture-hacking-singapore Some my selected favorites: Rule 1 - Don't know what you don't know Rule 4 - Don't go dark Rule 5 - Use feature teams Rule 6 - Use Zero Defect Milestones Rule 7 - Don't flip the bozo bit Rule 8 - Beware of a guy in a room Rule 13 - If you build it, it will ship (daily build) Rule 23 - Get the team into ship mode

Joel Spolsky  has one of the higher rated programming blogs and goes into the thought behind StackOverflow.com . It's a site designed to share programming information efficiently. Some interesting timecodes: 01:00 he worked on FogBugz 05:00 some interesting discussion about competing information exchange approaches 16:00 he worked on Excel VBA (a source of consulting work for me for years) 25:00 discussion about .NET stack and performance of C# being great 37:40 Things You Should Never Do (don't rewrite a software product from scratch) 44:00 stackoverflow.com is #1 resource for new programming technologies http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWHfY_lvKIQ