Arjan’s World

Resharper: The New Software Estimating Tool – D. P. Bullington ‘ In a nutshell, I was able to play an estimating game at the source code usage level, with the help of trusty ole Resharper ‘ Functional Programming – lessons from high-school arithmetic – Andrew Matthews 20 Years Later IRC is Still Useful; Are You [...]

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What the &@$#* is a ‘Best Practice’ anyway? – Derik Whittaker ‘ Remember the term ‘Best Practice’ is a lie meant to make you feel better about yourself and your code ‘ Squeezed Links: May 2008 – Max Pool .Net Equality – Will Smith (== != Equals) The Return of the “Franklinator” – Hanselminutes #115 [...]

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WCF Callbacks; a beginners guide – Barry Dorrans Nederland ‘kampioen’ eigen burgers aftappen – Webwereld Shocking: in one day the Dutch government listens in on phone calls as much as the complete US governemnt in a whole year! English translation here When does design happen in agile? – Ian Cooper Interesting point! ‘ The short [...]

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Eindhoven, June 26 2008: Seeing Alistair Cockburn live (and for free!) – Sioux Embedded Systems via Marc Evers. This is a wonderful opportunity to go and see one of the most wellknown people in the agile movement Adding files to TFS Team System Version Control – Kirstin Juhl ‘ When you add files to your [...]

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How Should You Update Your Application? – Mike Hall We can automate everything, up untill installing new versions of our software on users’ machines, but should we? Mike has some thoughts on how far we could go here, and the (dis)advantages our choices bring [ANN] Dimecasts.net is Alive and Kicking – Derik Whittaker New screencast [...]

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A Programming Job Interview Challenge #5 – Records Sorting – Shahar A IDisposable and deterministic execution of code within scope – Gaia 28 Ideas To Spice Up Your Mornings – Jarkko Laine Big list of cool tips, one of them: always carry pen/paper because inspiration/brainwaves come when you least expect them The Perfect Productivity System [...]

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The Single Best Source Control Model – Jurgen Appelo This brings two articles to our attention on source control, that look very interesting and go on my reading list for the coming week, apart from reading The art of agile development The Pitch – Ethan Vizitei Who Is This “Licklider” Guy? – Jeff Moser Some [...]

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Software is hard! – Jason Young ‘ Nothing is ever as simple as it seems. You’re not going to piece together code snippets from the web and create a great product ‘ OpenID isn’t ready for prime time – Robert W. Anderson There is at least some truth in here, as OpenID is a complex [...]

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Viewing Your Backlog – David Starr What is a backlog, why is prio key, and diffent views on the backlog Developing Facebook Application with .NET – part 2 – Aleksisa In case you’re into Facebook (I’m not) Simplifying the WPF TreeView by Using the ViewModel Pattern – Josh Smith ‘ Reviews how using a ViewModel [...]

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Actually, the subtitle says it all: ” Biting and humorous tales of a software engineering manager “ but let’s dive a bit deeper: This is a 2007 book, mainly compiled from the not-cheap-on-sarcasm Rands in Repose website, learning us every management trick in an unconventional way. It is from the guy who brought us NADD, [...]

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