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 [...]

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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 – [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 – [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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