Arjan’s World

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 possibilities in other people? ‘
• MVC Html helper to render an image with a Routable Link – Derik Whittaker
  Today I ran into a need where I wanted to create the html needed to render an image as a link and I wanted that clicking of that image to route to a controller action
• How to: 101 LINQ Samples for C# – Robert Shelton
  If you have a couple hours left
• Your Software Can’t Heal Itself – Justin Etheredge
  Yummy, new acronym included
• Doctors We Ain’t – Dave Laribee
  ‘ It’s not like user’s don’t know what they want; they do. Damn straight stakeholders know what benefit they expect from a software engagement ‘ Far too often the ’stupid users’ are blamed for not knowing what they want. This is just wrong, and laziness on our side.
• Classes that show up in every project – Jeremy D. Miller
  ‘ Just out of whimsy, here’s my list of classes or interfaces that seem to show up in every project I work on ‘ You’re invited to share your own…
• Super Models, Part 2: Avoid Mutators – Dave Laribee
  ‘ I’ve come to the point of view that Entities should not use set mutators (”setters”). Anything you represent as a setter can usually be better represented as a plain old method. Why? ‘
• Business Centric Architecture – Radusib
  ‘ Design the business layer using a provider pattern ‘
• EasyHook – The reinvention of Windows API hooking – Christoph Husse
  ‘ Hooking native APIs from any .NET language with support for AnyCPU assemblies and Windows Server 2008 SP1 x64 ‘
• Microsoft sets key piece of identity puzzle – John Fontana
  ‘ Microsoft Zermatt eases development of claims-based apps ‘
  via Kim Cameron
• My boss’ boss’ boss – Matt Hinze
  ‘ I’m sure there’s more to this than what I understand, but I can’t help but wonder if sometimes we think an entire culture needs to change when all it really needs is an email to the help desk ‘
  Funny how we make life more complicated all the time without reason.
• Deploying ASP.NET MVC on ASP.NET 2.0 – Scott Hanselman
  freaky stuff, bleeding edge MVC combined with old-fashioned ASP.NET 2.0
• Documentation: A Sure Sign of Garbage Code – Sarah Chipps
  ‘ Stop documenting code, stop asking your coders to document, stop thinking that documentation is a staple in programming ‘
• Herding Cats: Waterfall as a bad idea? – Glen Alleman
• Never doubt thy debugger : Visual Studio 2008 crashes in “split view” – Carlo C
  ‘ (…) when trying to view a file (even a new one) in split view or design view the IDE either crashed or frozen ‘ Interesting problem debugged
• 3 Resources for Web Designers – Mike Gunderloy
  There might be some little designing coming up, so need to repolish my mad skillz (not!). Mike’s tips help me get restarted
• Optimize WebResource.axd and ScriptResource.axd – Mads Kristensen
• Back to basics: Getting started (Source Control: SVN/Git) – Mischa Kroon
  ‘ Before creating things of value it’s wise to make sure that your investment is guarded. ‘ Well said. I still encounter devs who still think zipping source in an archive is source control. Mischa’s intro is for them!
• Using the ‘Source Control – Team Foundation’ toolbar to perform common TFS operations on the current document within Visual Studio – Brian Di Croce
• An Astonishing Collaboration – DoxPara Research
  Microsoft, Cisco, Nominum, Neustar, OpenDNS and CERT worked together in a major operation to put a temporary patch on the DNS system: a classic example of just-in-time management
• Poll: Who Is Your .NET Man-Crush? – Alvin Ashcraft
  Vote here, ladies and gents in this ‘ completely unscientific ‘ poll