Arjan’s World

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 Foundation Server – Simone Chiaretta
• Minimizing Email Distractions – J. Ambrose Little
• Agile patterns & practices and the developer divide – Jason Young
  Book review
• Off-topic: Social Change Artists – Rob Conery
  ‘ Investing In The Green ‘
• Have you created a cool gadget for Team System? – Mitch Denny
• Logging with Ninject – Matt Hinze
  ‘ My feelings about Ninject are really positive. It’s a pleasure to work with it (…) I particularly abhor XML configuration and Ninject has a really comfortable API that lets me skate that ‘ Praise for the only injection framework without XML..
• Don’t Ever Want, Wish or Hope for Anything – Travis Wright
  ‘ Decide in advance. Create the pathway and then walk down the pathway you created ‘
• PERFORMANCE: IEnumerable<>.Sum – Rudi Grobler
• Buu Nguyen’s Blog » The 5 Types of Poor Architects
  Learn for example about the ‘ no-news-is-good-news architects: These architects are afraid of new things, those they often insist to be “unproven” and “risky” ‘
• Architects vs. Agilists (1 – 1) – Jurgen Appelo
  ‘ There is no conflict between architecture and agility. There is only conflict between bad architects and bad agilists ‘
• Fat Models and the Data Access Layer – Dave Marshall
  If your application is complex enough (…) your model should be using the DAL, not being the DAL ‘