links for 2008-02-27

Jacob is writing about why he putting-out-the-fire believes that TDD zealots have caused people to skip unit testing altogether

Listening to users is a tricky thing. Users often don’t know what they want, and even if they did, the communication is likely to get garbled somewhere between them and you. By no means should you ignore your users, though.

As part of this project I was running plenty of bechmarking tests, trying every technique imaginable to squeeze more juice from the servers. And so, I wanted to take this opportunity to share a few “secrets” that are going to put your site on steroids.