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 [...]

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Agile Tools vs. Agile Books- Paul J. Heidema
Which is better: using tools, reading books, or both?
How to Use Parkinson’s Law to Your Advantage – Joel Falconer
Which was ‘ Work expands to fill the time available for its completion ‘
Programming Twitter with WCF 3.5 – Dariusz
code for this project available if you like
Speaking of Scrum – [...]

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*** Failures of aimless large-scale refactorings – Jimmy Bogard
‘ Another angle of attack besides charging up the hill to the machine gun nest, armed with only a bayonet, is to take a more strategic aim at de-gunking your system ‘
Completely refactoring your legacy app? Think again!
ReSharper 4.0 Release Candidate – Ilya Ryzhenkov
Good news never comes [...]

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Great New Podcast – Rhonda Tipton
Nothing wrong with TDD, right? – David Linsin
If you are working on a component with several different classes and you are starting with implementing test cases upfront, you find yourself constantly refactoring those tests as your implementation evolves
Fear of parsers? Not really… – Alex Ruiz
‘ (…) creating an external DSL [...]

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How Hard Could it Be?: Adventures in Office Space – Joel Spolsky
The Design Is Never Right The First Time – Phil Haack
Welcome to the World of Git – Jeremy Jarrell
What’s Git? As explained on the git site it’s ‘ open source version control system designed to handle very large projects with speed and efficiency ‘. [...]

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