Finds of the Week – December 23, 2008

.NET, C#, Programming

• I am in agreement with by Randall Hyde on The Fallacy of Premature Optimization.
• Dustin Andrews shared good tips on how to “get traction” in your team.
• Ranko shared his First Thoughts On MVC.NET.
• Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror)’s article The Great Browser JavaScript Showdown has benchmarks of Javascript performance of the top Internet browsers. I am a little surprised that IE7 came out at the bottom.
• Another interesting article from Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror), Digital Certificates: Do They Work?, questions the usefulness of digital certificates.

Software and Tools

• DAEMON Tools is one of the best CD/DVD emulator. Use it to mount those CD/DVD images you download from MSDN. Cost: $0.

And Now, Something Different

Researchers found that young chimpanzees have an extraordinary ability to remember numerals that is superior to that of human adults. Skeptical? Just take a look at the video.