Arjan’s World

Well, people, I’m off for the weekend with the family. See you all next week!

• Customers trust you, even if you don’t deserve it – Jason Young
  ‘ I’m sure those services in question would like to have a better solution for accessing the data, but it’s probably at the end of a long list of potential features ‘
  Well, this is all well and fine, until a security breach occurs, of course, and all customer data will be posted on the intarnets. After which security will magically be given a prio 1, some heads will roll, and the managers will be huffing, puffing and yelling at the poor devs how they could have been so stupid.
• How to be Jeff Atwood – Leon Bambrick
  Your guaranteed guide to blogging success
• Birthday Contest – Win Bamboo 2.0 + SlickEdit – Max Pool
  Max knows how to get people to link (as I am!)
• Distributed Caching with Microsoft’s “Velocity” – Hanselminutes Show #116
• Why Developers should Do Testing – Soon Hui
  How testing can make you a better developer
• Select Quotes from Peopleware, Part 1 – Matt Blodgett
  Peopleware is really a classic, you should have read it. But as you don’t have time, quotes will hopefully convince you to go read it anyway
• Technology Round Table Podcast #3 – Should Developers Learn C? + TechEd 2008 Keynote Announcements – Jon Galloway
• Using TFS, Excel, and Agile to deliver on time and on budget – Teams WIT Tools
  Interesting if you try/do Agile with TFS
  via Greg Duncan
• Discovery Service – Part 3 – Coding Sanity
• Verifying assumptions with tests – Oren Eini
• Checking ExpectedException and is thrown by specified type – Tim Huffam
• Refactoring Legacy Code – Part 1: Dealing with Static Cling – Sendhil Kumar R
  ‘ Series of articles on how to add unit tests & refactor legacy code ‘
• The Art of Assembly Versions – Tony Rasa
  One way of looking at versioning your assemblies, seems a sane one to me
• # 8 – Introduction to Mocking with Moq – DimeCasts.Net
  podcast on Moq, a newcomer in the mocking framework world
• LightSpeed 2.0 Released – Andrew Peters
  ‘ (…) the next major version of our high performance, high productivity .NET O/RM and domain modeling framework ‘
• The Great Devlicio.us Giveaway – Sergio Pereira
  Contest: write the success story of how adopting better development practices saved your project and win some cool books/software
• Software Development Automation with Scripting Languages – Allan Kliu
  While Perl/Unix oriented, you can easily use these tips on your Windows box
• Why You Should Never Publish Anything Late at Night When You’re Tired – Follow Steph
  ‘ You can’t win every time, but stack the odds in your favor! ‘