Arjan’s World

Note for Dutch readers: in the near future I will be brainstorming with some people about starting Alt.NET in the Netherlands. If you’re Dutch, or know someone here who might be interested, please contact me, or even better, send them to the conversation about the topic on the accompanying Google Group

• Managing Software Development: Eat Chaos, Poop Order - Jurgen Appelo
  ‘ The rest of my life has seen lots of iterations of the same pattern. I adopt an environment of anarchy. I thrive on it. I disregard the official rules and create my own structures ‘
• A Case Study in Bad Marketing - Eric Sink
• Building a custom thread pool (series, part 2): a work stealing queue - Joe Duffy
• Learning to Think in the Abstract - Travis Illig
  nice fictitious(?) conversation between a junior and a senior dev ‘ that the ability to think in the abstract is key to being able to step beyond simple coding and into the world of development.
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• People would rather die than admit control is an illusion - Robert
  ‘ So to all you project managers out there who think you’ve got life pegged, please throw the expression “Control Chaos” out the window when you are talking about Agile ‘
• C# refcard now available (free) from DZone - Jon Skeet
  Registration at DZone was a hassle for me, as it failed the first time. But the card is nice
• Destroying Teams One Broken Window At A Time - Max Pool
  Ahh, the infamout broken windows; even my wife refers to them nowadays whenever junk is starting to pile up in the street somewhere
• Digital Identity, Privacy, and the Internet’s Missing Identity Layer - Kim Cameron
  ‘ The issues of password attacks don’t go away - in fact the vulnerabilities are potentially worse to the extent that a single password becomes the gate to more resources ‘ still Kim is convinced: ‘ I strongly believe OpenID moves identity forward ‘
• Software testing in an Agile environment - Agile Journal
  Interesting article, as the role of QA/Test is a sometimes debated issue withing Agile circles
• My Developer Applications and Utilities List - Yaakov Ellis
  Nice list divided in Coding/Dev, Multimedia, Internet and Utilities
• Art, Craft or Science? - Michael Stal
  Maybe it is…. all three.
• Bypassing Microsoft Vista’s Memory Protection - Bruce Schneier
  A hack using IE to circumvent all Vista’s memory protection. Bruce thinks it’s huge
• Boxers or Briefs, Stateful or Stateless - Nick Maiorano
  statelessness started out as the simpler alternative but taken to an extreme, became very complicated. Statefulness started out being the faster alternative but also, taken to an extreme, became inefficient. This shows the value in mixing both paradigms
• Paper Torn with a Document Shredder Can Be Reconstructed - Amit Agarwal
  just so you know…
• New and Notable 264 - Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 RTM! - Sam Gentile
• Last In - First Out: Patch Now - What Does it Mean? - Michael Janke
  ‘ are they advising an accelerated patch schedule, but in a change managed, tested, QA’d rollout of a patch that considers security and availability? ‘
  thanks Alvin!
• Hacked! And I didn’t like it - URLScan is Step Zero - Scott Hanselman
  ‘ I mistakenly thought that the Ninjas wouldn’t be able to catch me if I was on fire. In fact, not so ‘
• DotNetRocks Talk on Business and Entrepreneurship - Steve Smith
  Interesting show for those of us thinking about going independent. Airs on Aug 14, but this post already has an interesting book referal on the topic