Arjan’s World

Podcast Posted – Johanna Rothman Johanna’s first podcast, unfortunately it’s only in m4a format, which my poor WinXP doesn’t understand, and on ITunes, which I’m not going to install just to give this a listen update: Johanna kindly provided the MP3 file. Before you use an IoC tool, some concepts to know first – Jeremy [...]

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Why Choosing the Right Technology Matters – Hamid Shojaee Hamid makes some good points why the technology you choose for your project does indeed matter The Origins of MVC – Andrew Trice ‘ (…) the MVC design pattern has probably been around longer than a number of the people actively reading this blog ‘ In [...]

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Creating a comma separated list from IEnumerable<T> – Will Smith How to Stay Motivated Working on an Idea From Last Year – Jarkko Laine ‘ That’s the only way things get done: one by one ‘ MSDN Low-Bandwidth Rendering Option – Craig Andera The rather bulky MSDN website (as in ‘long load time’) provides a [...]

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*** I’m not taking on the Alt.NET world – Kathleen Dollard ‘ Meaningful conversations can’t happen until the visible presence of the Alt.NET community appears much more willing to listen and much less intent on its own internal modus operandi of shooting down ideas (…) ‘ Must.Not.Get.Involved.In.This.War… Smart Enough Not To Build This Website – [...]

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O, by the way: Bill Gates sent me a letter today informing me that Windows 7 will arrive somewhere around 2010. Just so you know Scrum Sprint 1, Week 2 – A rolling stone gathers no moss (aka the Scare Factor of having a timeboxed integration) – Greg Duncan Features Do Not Exist (Only Benefits) [...]

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Can we please stop all the SlickEdit 2008 reviews now? You all got free licenses, did you Clean your HTML inputs or the dog-eaters will get to you – Gojko Adzic Which makes me realize there’s an upgrade to WordPress I should check out Minimalist Code Samples – Tim Stall An interesting fusion cache lock: [...]

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ASP.NET Routing and Authorization – Mike Ormond How trustworthy can OpenID be if the developers of it like SixApart themselves don’t trust it? – Dana Epp ‘ The people that helped build the technology don’t dogfood it themselves for their own commercial web applications ‘ Apart from that (no pun intended) OpenID still suffers from [...]

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The Complete Checklist for Cleaning Up Your Machine – Eran Kampf If you want to be *really* sure your machine is empty before handing it in, e.g. at the last day at work RSS Bandit (Phoenix) alpha release: A desktop client for Google Reader, a podcatcher, and much more – Dare Obasanjo C# 3.0 Language [...]

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Very quiet today, even for a weekend Separation of Concerns – Igloo Coder ‘ I know this has been beaten to death in some circles (521,000 results in Google, 2,551 results in Google’s blog search), but it bears repeating until people start paying it some attention ‘ How to get up to speed with Team [...]

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Separation of Concerns by example: Part 1 – Jimmy Bogard ‘ Now our presentation layer is just a very thin layer on top of our application and domain layer. Which is good ‘ The Open Road Beckons!! – Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo Jean-Paul has his own inspirational implementation of Tim Ferriss’s 4-hour workweek Lean Software Development [...]

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