Arjan’s World

OK, last LINKBLOG for three weeks. Hope to see you all back in good health, have a great time when you’re going on holidays yourselves. Take care!

First impressions of RenderAction in MVC Preview 4 – Matt Hinze
Innovation vs Convention – Mike Hall
‘ What’s the best way to balance innovation and convention? creativity and expectations? novelty [...]

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Holiday getting close, looking forward to be fully offline for a couple weeks. By the way; is it me being more critical than normal, or have is the rest of the blogosphere also taking a break?
ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 section

ASP.NET – Release: ASP.NET MVC CodePlex Preview 4 Installer + Source
here’s the most important: the bits
ASP.NET [...]

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Creating Nullable<T> When You Don’t Know T – Brad Wilson
Reintroducing Terrarium, now with 2.0 goodness! – Bil Simser
Cool .NET project, now opensourced for the first time: ‘ Build some creatures, learn some .NET and game programming, but above all: have fun! ‘
Me + MEF = A new beginning – Glenn Block
So, how long does it [...]

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Design Patterns – Generic Singleton Pattern – David Cumps
WinForms and WPF. Great alone, yet better together – Greg Duncan
‘ this is the tutorial I’ve been looking for since VS 2008 came out, with it’s cool WinForm/WPF support ‘ Looks like the one to pick up of you need to start yet another WinForms app but [...]

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CR_Documentor 2.0.0.0 Released: Now With Sandcastle Preview and Open Source Goodness – Travis Illig
Plug-in showing a preview of how your XML comments will look like after processing thanks Sam!
NINE Questions – Chris Williams
Somehow missed this interview series, where Chris interviews interesting people from the tech community thanks Rhonda!
Web 2.0: switchAbit Syndicates Your Social Updates [...]

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Back To Basics – Everyone Remember Where We Parked (that memory)! – Scott Hanselman
Scott adds new feature to BabySmash, but ‘ I found that when I wheeled the mouse REALLY fast, sometimes it’d get a nasty burst of loud static instead of the nice WAV file playing as I expected ‘
Refactoring DRY tests with Resharper’s [...]

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I’ll get to your application in a minute – First, we need to build the framework – Jeffrey Palermo
‘ A client isn’t interested in software that can be used to create software (frameworks). They have a problem, and a software system can help them solve the problem ‘
Over Specification in Tests – Roy Osherove
‘ [...]

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Does Exploratory Testing Have A Place On Agile Teams? – Johanna Rothman
How to Write Maintainable Code – Follow Steph
‘ Write your code from the perspective of the person who’s going to use it ‘ Sounds so simple but we forget
The Art of Agile Development: “Done Done” – James Shore
‘ “Done done” is at the root [...]

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Blogging might be a bit lighter into the next week with lots of preparations for summer holidays.

*** How to Fail with Agile – Clinton Keith and Mike Cohn
Interesting post via Robert May
On Classical Music, Leaders, and Inspiration – Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo
‘ Do you want to be a person who can be used to awaken the [...]

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How to implement workflow in VSTS – Case of Code Review – Subodh Sohoni
MVC Controller Action Security Hole – Troy Goode
Possibly dangerous scenario here, the implications seem a bit under discussion at the moment‘ passing cookies and server variables into controllers as action parameters ‘ Phil Haack has already posted on this
36 steps to success [...]

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