Arjan’s World

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: that’s what the GAC is meant for – Carlo C
  ‘ This has been an interesting case where we had an ASP.NET 2.0 application which under load was completely blocked after a few minutes ‘
• The irony of creative change – Scott Berkun
  ‘ Me: (Brain in scramble overdrive) “If Innovation is something new, how can you expect to find it looking where you’ve always looked?” ‘
• LinqDataSource with ASP.NET data controls [Part IV] – Abhigad
  ‘ Using LinqDataSource with ASP.NET data controls like gridview and dropdown list ‘
• What makes me NOT want to leave a company/client/shop – Derik Whittaker
  ‘ Put me in a position to make a difference ‘ If all Derik’s points are an affirmative yes for you, count yourself blessed
• Visual Studio Smart Tag Expansion Tip – Phil Haack
  ” Silly me, trying to expand a smart tag with a mouse ‘ Shift-AltF10 and Ctrl-. to the rescue
• Your Guide to Getting Productive with Gmail: Account Consolidation – Joel Falconer
• HealthVault moves forward with OpenID – Kim Cameron
• Dime Casts – Great Ten Minute Development Tutorials – Rhonda Tipton
  Rhonda plugs the new Dimecast video tutorial site. I saw some of them, and they’re great stuff ranging from beginner to advanced. Check it out
• Recommendations From My Developer Toolbox (June 2008) – Alvin Ashcraft
  Great. Love Devtool overviews. Yummie. Have at least 50% of them on my box right now, 75% if you include replacements
• Matrix Resource Management and Agile – Joe Ocampo
  ‘ Agile refocuses management to concentrate on people aspect of leadership. By focusing on increasing quality of life for the employee and increasing knowledge share, the benefits are tremendous! ‘ In my experience the decisionmakers often fail to see this
• Resolving HttpContext members using Ninject providers – Matt Hinze
  ‘ When I began implementing dependency injection with an IoC container I struggled until I found a nice way to do this with Ninject ‘
• The Weekly Source Code 29 – Ruby and Shoes and the First Ruby Virus – Scott Hanselman
  ‘ Fantastic hack. He shoves the Ruby script into a Windows Resource! ‘ Once again Scott is knee-deep in the mud (if you pardon me a 90’s Quake campaign) in a new language. Admit that I can not keep up with a new language or library set each week
• Great developers – Craig Bailey
  ‘ then I thought about it some more, and I realised I had absolutely no idea what constituted a great developer ‘ Great question: what is a good developer; might be less obvious than you initially think…
• 8 New ASP.NET How to videos – Robert Shelton
• A Programming Job Interview Challenge #9 – Shahar Y
  Another interesting interview question to cut yout teeth on
• LINQ to MSI – Part 2 – Queryable without an I – Bart de Smet
  ‘ (…) the goal of this blog series is to live an IQueryable-free live (…) ‘