Arjan’s World

• 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 – Lifehacker
  The more services pop up for which you have accounts, the more you will see apps like this that pull it all together. But the *real* killer will be when Identity is put in the mix here, so all those accounts are not even necessary anymore
• Learning NHibernate? Join the email list with 600 other users – Jeffrey Palermo
  ‘ Just searching the archives will probably help you solve any problems you are having with NHibernate ‘
• Why Developers & Testers will LOVE Vmware’s Lab Manager – Dave Oliver
  ‘ Vmware Lab Manager can deploy an exact copy of the entire configuration to the best available resources in a pool of managed servers, running and ready for use ‘
  I’m already using Virtual Machines for new (beta) software, and sometimes for little development side thingies, but WMWare is taking virtualization to new limits. Don’t miss this boat!
• Poll Results: Threading, Mock Frameworks and unit test frameworks – Roy Osherove
• Technical Software Project Management is Dead – John Summers
  ‘ Only the developers understand the technology, what can and can’t be done with it, and how long it will take. The PM fell off the learning curve. It’s really not possible for them to keep up ‘ This will be quite controversial in some circles
• Is It a Managed or a Native Memory Leak? – Sasha Goldshtein
  ‘ How do you determine whether the memory issue you seem to be experiencing is a .NET memory leak or a native memory leak? Why is it even important? ‘
• Experimenting with Adobe AiR – Shawn Wildermuth
  thank Alvin!
• LINQ Farm: More on Set Operators – Charlie Calvert
  ‘ In this post I give four highly simplified examples of how to use each of the operators, and then end with a more complex example that shows how the operators might be used in a real world setting ‘
• Design Patterns – Abstract Factory Pattern – David Cumps
  ‘ Time to continue from yesterday’s Factory Method Pattern by exploring the Abstract Factory Pattern ‘
• AnkhSVN 2.0 Final Released… – Subversion Blog
  We’re on TFS these days, but I remember Subversion (SVN) very well, and have inspected AnkhSVN once, a free tool integrating Visual Studio with SVN
  via Chris Alcock
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #18 – Parameterize the HTTP Context – Stephen Walther
  ‘ Context is the enemy of testability. In this tip, I demonstrate how you can eliminate, once and for all, the HTTP Context from an ASP.NET MVC application ‘

By the way, our fellow geek, blogger and basically the one who brought fame and hits to this little linkblog Leon Bambrick created TimeSnapper some time ago, an ‘Automatic Screenshot Journal ‘ you can use to keep track of your working day, measure productivity, and basically create a lot of graphical insight in what you did – or did not- do. Revealing app it is! They are offering the stuff for half-price (seems to be only $19,95) for a limited period. So hurry and get your copy. – Will this do, Leon ?