Arjan’s World

OK, tomorrow it’s off to Amsterdam first thing in the morning for a day crammed with sessions over at Microsofts DevDays Netherlands 2008. See you all back on Friday!

• Zephyr the Test Management Tool – Soon Hui
  Zephyr recently asked to to evaluate their tool. I haven’t found the time, so I’m glad Soon did it
• The Weekly Source Code 27 – Suck Less Libraries – Scott Hanselman
  Next episode of Scott’s never(?)ending source code quest
  ‘ This week’s Weekly Source Code is dedicated to the people who create libraries with the goal of making other libraries suck less ‘
• It’s Software – And I Helped! – Max Pool
  Max has some cool brainwaves (or is it just that I could never write sentences like these), and is happy with the ensuing reader comments
  ‘ we pollute the purity of designs and implementations by adding a small amount of our personal opinions to the project ‘
• ReSharper 4 Beta – Ilya Ryzhenkov
  After two hours fiddling it *looks* faster, especially in highly complex and nested code
• On Comparing Current Tools to Futureware – Evan Hoff
• Get Started Writing Testable Code – Tony Rasa
• It is not the parser I fear – Oren Eini
  ‘ In short, it is not the parsing that I fear, it is all the other work associated with it ‘
• How Do I Get Started with the Entity Framework? – You can watch this 9 minute video… – Greg Duncan
  In under ten minutes you can talk with the big guys about EF
• 10 Things to Consider Before Writing a Book – John Papa
  While the message here is positive, putting it like that would make one think twice before starting…
• C# 3.0 Implicit Type Declarations: To var or not to var? – Dare Obasanjo
  another matter where opinions can turn into emotions… code readability
• Choose Your Manager – Eric Sink
  Eric confesses writing a non work-related game during office hours to his manager, with a completely unexpected result
• How to auto update your application – Mike Hall
  Mike wanted autoupdate in his new Twitter client Bitter, which was actually quite easy. Handy for-future-reference code
• All About Agile: Agile Colocation – Kelly Waters
  ‘ it comes down to which group of people is most valuable to collaborate with most frequently ‘
• Throw New VirtualMachine(); – Leon Bambrick
• Setting Up your TFS Project Part 1: Users and Security – Kirstin Juhl
  Even the latest TFS is still a hassle to set up correctly, so posts like this are really a help
• Entities, Value Objects, Aggregates and Roots – Jimmy Bogard
  Jimmy describes what these things mean in DDD-language
• SlickEdit 2008 Week 2 – Dave Campbel
  Lots of people seem to love SlickEdit (disclaimer: I’ve never used it) so you might have a look there…
• Our Data, Ourselves – Bruce Schneier
  ‘ In the information age, we all have a data shadow ‘
• Entity Framework: Our Albatross – Dave Laribee
  Barfights and Silver Bullets in here