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 and normality? ‘
• The Definitive List of Software Development Methodologies – Jurgen Appelo
• Programmer’s Creed – DevTopics
  ‘ a creed for our noble profession of software development ‘
• Can You Hack Your Own Site? A Look at Some Essential Security Considerations – Ben Charnock
  if you cannot following these tips, you’re probably safe enough
• .Net is like the galaxy, they’re both big and getting bigger – Tim Stall
• 5 Tips For Coworking With Friends – Celine Roque
• WPF Binding Converter Best Practices – Amit Raz
  WPF Binding Converter Best Practices
• MVC Storefront Part 17: Checkout With Jeff Atwood – Rob Conery
• It’s the little things – Jan van Ryswyk
  small code tip ‘ a very simple base class that provides an implicit cast operator for the builder class ‘
• *** How to get started offering your own training courses – Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo
  A lot of us really have something to say, Jean-Paul explains from personal experience how to “get the marketing machine working for you”
  ‘ Nobody knew who I was, so why would a bunch of people I did not know, show up for a class I was teaching? ‘
• More Distributed Development Best Practices – Ade Miller
• Announcing SecureDeveloper.com – Joe Stagner
  New initiative, ASP.NET security webcasts. Already 7 to watch. Head over to www.SecureDeveloper.com and subscribe. Joe wants to put 100 webcasts up there during the rest of the year!
• Dude, Where’s My Manual? – PowerShell Team Blog
• Tips to Write a Good Bug Report – Soon Hui
  Good post, I find a lot of bug reports are far to less communicative to be useful. This list of Do’s and Don’ts should be put on every bug reporter’s desk
• Separation of Concerns by example: Part 5 – Jimmy Bogard
• Apply a Noise Gate to Your Life – Torley Wong
• Developer != Designer – Scott Hanselman
  ‘ The difference between a Designer and Developer, when it comes to design skills, is the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it ‘
• Cool New Tool – WhiteBoardWiki – Kelly Waters