Arjan’s World

The Easy Way to Writing Good User Stories – Max Pool
‘ Many development shops have opted to writing user stories over traditional feature/requirement documents; however, almost all of them struggle when writing their first batch of user stories ‘
Pair programming. What researches say on the costs and benefits of the practice – Artem
While paring is [...]

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Twitter / JohnCleese
John Cleese is on Twitter under the tagline “Yes, I am still indeed alive, contrary to rumour, and I am making video podcasts”. Seems to be the real John (via twitter / IDisposable)
Scrum – A Not-so-bad Development Methodology – Tim Barcz
‘ If you aren’t using a methodology or your current process isn’t working, [...]

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ASP.NET MVC Tip #33 – Unit Test LINQ to SQL – Stephen Walther
‘ I demonstrate how to unit test the LINQ to SQL DataContext object by creating a Fake DataContext ‘
Why you should always unscubscribe event handlers – Davy Brion
‘ Not doing so might lead to instances not being removed if the event’s publisher has [...]

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Debugging in .NET – Resources – Rhonda Tipton
‘ There is always a need for pointers on good debugging techniques, so I thought I would post some debugging resources here ‘
Interesting Finds: August 16, 2008 – [Rough Cut] – Jason Haley
Jason tries something new on his blog: personal commentary to the posts. I really like adding [...]

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The FUN-duh-MENTALs – Mo Khan
‘ It seems like we developers are proud of being an expert at something, but when that something becomes less and less relevant in building applications today, we tag it as “fundamental” ‘
The ABCs of Alpha, Beta, CTP – Phil Haack
Microsoft’s way of looking at this stuff, learn all about OOB [...]

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Call for Votes: Top 100 Software Engineering Blogs! – Jurgen Appelo
Jurgen kindly asks you to help him in a communal efforft to create a yet non-existing list of language agnostic engineering blogs.
Intution is Not Enough for Knowing About the Project Portfolio – Johanna Rothman
Stay True to Your Process – Glen Alleman
‘ (…) to avoid spending [...]

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Program Manager role at Microsoft – Daniel Moth
‘ Some view the “drawback” of this role being that: you have tons of responsibilities which you can only deliver via a team on which you have no authority. Read that sentence again ‘
10 Success Patterns for PMs – J.D. Meier
Another list, 10 items, so again it is [...]

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SQL Injection attacks in the wild – why they’re working and what to do – Greg Hughes
Greg has some background on the latest round of SQL Injection attacks, targeting MS SQL Server
Sorting Things Out – OJ Reeves
OJ starts a new series on sorting algorithms because far too often we don’t completely grasp them. And we [...]

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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, [...]

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A Programming Job Interview Challenge – The End – Shahar Y
Looks like the end of a nice series
Learn HTML. But only if you want to. – Kyle Baley
‘ Well, here’s the thing: I *am* just a guy. I figure this &*%$ out the same way you do. By reading blogs, watching screencasts, and diving in [...]

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