I survived the bookshelf, so ... Ben Lovell started a terrific series of posts on Test-First Incremental Development with Monorail

Ben has started a series of posts, similar to what I intended to do (always the lazy blogger excuse) about how to go incrementally developing a web application in the test-first way (writing the unit tests before the code). What I normally do differently from him is that he goes backwards throughout the layers (he starts with the controllers' layer, going down to the service layer, and so on) and I tend to begin at the service and model layers, and go up afterwards, because most of my projects tend to have requirements for supporting multiple-UI and/or for publishing some SOA interface (binary or xml, web services).

Me and my son escaped being killed or severely injured by the fall of a huge piece of wall-mounted furniture

Part of a huge dry-wall mounted bookcase collapsed into the floor where I was standing seconds before, and beside my son's bed. After the heart-pounding eased a bit, we've found his forehead was struck by some decorative object, perhaps, but no serious injury happened.

After moving the debris and collecting the books, toys and other objects from the floor, we all had a terrible night, with my kids having an unrestful, frightened, sleep, what made me and my wife also not being able to recover fully.

"What does not kill us makes us stronger", some believe, but I would rather have had a good night of sleep...