Links I Like #2

Software Development

• Lazy instantiation one-liner of instance fields with the coalesce operator - handy tip from Frank Quednau
• The Technology Cliff: How Time Off From Programming Affects Your Chops - Rob Walling on getting back into real work after time off being a manager!
• Top Five Reasons why Prince2 Sucks - Jurgen Appelo on what he thinks is the UK's worst export.

Non-Technical

• Fortune-tellers get a visit from Trading Standards Officers - did they see it coming?
• Plants have rights too! Have the Swiss gotten too attached to Edelweiss?

Utilities

• ZoomIt - "free screen zoom and annotation tool for technical presentations" (thanks to my colleague Roman for this).
• Cropper - my favourite screen capture utility - written in C#, of course.