Links from February 3rd

A few links from the past few days.

• Martin Fowler: Flaccid Scrum. An argument that the Scrum process, which is focused on project management, is doomed to failure without good technical process operating in the background.
• Fraser Speirs: On the Flickr support in iPhoto ’09. Musings from a third party developer whose product is being subsumed into the platform.
• Bruce Schneier: The Exclusionary Rule and Security. A perspective on the recent Supreme Court ruling that loosened the restraints on police handling of evidence. Schneier argues that loosening the rules creates poor incentives for the police.
• Last.fm: Closing in on clean metadata: artist and track spelling auto-correction is here. Very cool.
• Dom Sagolla: How Twitter Was Born.
• Dealbreaker: No More Than The President Of The United States. A look at the President’s real compensation.
• Food & Think: Wing Shortage Looms On Eve of Big Game. 5% of the chicken wings consumed each year are eaten on Super Bowl Sunday.
• Vitalsecurity.org: Direct Revenue: A Twisting History. An informative followup on this widely linked interview with a reformed adware author.
• Marginal Revolution: What is the best food produced en masse? An interesting answer to an interesting question about food.
• Felix Salmon: Where’s Markopolos’s Blog? An argument that had Harry Markopolos, the guy who tried repeatedly to inform the SEC of the Madoff ponzi scheme, just published his findings on a blog, he would have seen results. Wikileaks would have worked too.
• Sam Ruby: Rails 2.3.0 RC1. I don’t know how developers keep up with all the changes in Rails, I feel particularly bad for authors publishing Rails books.
• git ready: converting from svn
• Michael Widenius: Time to move on. MySQL creator leaves Sun.
• Paul Buchheit: Communicating with code. An argument for skipping design and requirements and just iterating in code.