Arjan’s World

sorry if this comes out a bit garbled. Had to wrestle the HTML today for some unknown reason

Revisiting the onion – Kyle Baley
The architectural version of the Onion, that is… ‘ Can the UI talk to the Infrastructure? Does the Infrastructure even use the Application Services? In my experience, not really. It interacts directly with [...]

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Short edition, today. Blame the weather, not the blogosphere…

Announcing New C# 4.0 LINQ Features and Book – Omer van Kloeten
How to Find the Intersection of Multiple Lists – Keyvan Nayyeri
Lessons learned from Protocol Buffers, part 4: static interfaces – Jon Skeet
Lessons learned from Protocol Buffers, part 3: generic type relationships – Jon Skeet
Herding Code #14 [...]

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Async Operations in Wcf: Handling Exceptions – Dan Rigsby
Software Estimation is hard (right)? – Andrew Stopford
The Importance of Community Driven Events – DevLink – OH WOW !!! – Joe Stagner
Screencast: Hosting WCF services in ASP.NET/IIS – Aaron Skonnard
Another screencast in an interesting continuing series on WCF
LINQ to XSD – Martin Hinshelwood
‘ Disappointed that is only [...]

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Agile Development: why it rocks, who it helps, and why it’s failing – Sara Chipps
‘ Not because Agile doesn’t work, but because when people aren’t happy they don’t care if your company succeeds or not ‘
Sara’s problem is not the methodology, but the implementation, if I interpreted correctly
Reddit Now Fully Customizable: Bring Your Own Design [...]

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Freelancers and Credit Cards – Making a Tough Relationship Work – Jonathan Leane
Some tips,maybe open doors when freelancing, but still
‘ 4. Consider registering yourself as a business ‘
ASP.NET MVC Validations using MVCContrib – Shiju Varghese
‘ MVCContrib is a cool contrib project to ASP.net MVC that extends the functionalities of an ASP.net MVC application and [...]

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Drag and Drop Text Files from Windows Explorer to your Windows Form Application – Suprotim Agarwal
GUI code tip
The Evolution of MVC – Stephen Walther
Stephen describes MVC little history: from how it was first implemented in a Smalltalk context, from Java Server Pages, up until it’s current adoption in the ASP.NET world by Microsoft
Mapping a Checkbox [...]

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The Website Is Down: Sales Guy vs. Web Dude – Max Pool
Probably linked to it before, but if you haven’t seen this video yet you absolutely should. We all had a good laugh about it here. If it could be nominated for ‘geek video of 2008′, it should be
Quick Quiz on Tasks – Daniel Moth
Explaining [...]

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ASP.NET Futures – Generating Dynamic Images with HttpHandlers gets Easier – Scott Hanselman
ResDump Code – D.P. Bullington
‘ (…) a tool which would dump all image and image list resources from an assembly, resx, or resources file ‘ Handy!
Recouping Lost IQ Points from the Internets – Russell Ball
‘ (…) what can be done to counter-act this [...]

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On good design and defining success – Jimmy Bogard
‘ Good design such as those espoused in the SOLID principles and reinforced through TDD, as well as the other XP practices, can enable success on certain projects ‘
The Weekly Source Code 32- Atom, AtomPub and BlogSvc, an AtomPub Server in WCF – Scott Hanselman
‘ Why not [...]

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Let’s start off with a small disclaimer, just to keep things in the open:  recently (dude! half a year ago…) I was offered a Professional license to the tool NDepend by Patrick Smacchia. Time went by, and I really wanted to give the thing a try. Had already seen some screenshots that blew me away. But as [...]

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