Arjan’s World

AGILE Project Management with Scrum -A book by Ken Schwaber – Jim Heidema
CIO.com has a nice preview of Visual Studio 2010 – Scott Cate
Of course, after the buzz the screenshots come in…
Some comments are a total waste of time – Derik Whittaker
IComparer vs IEqualityComparer – Keyvan Nayyeri
On the goodies that the .NET Framework provides us
If [...]

Read Full Post »

Typemock Isolator : Getting internal variables – Dennis van der Stelt
Defining the “Unit” in Unit Testing – Chris Sterling
Big Learning Up Front is wrong too – Jason Grundy
‘ Regarding my philosophy for development in general I believe in incremental design over BDUF. And I’m going to apply this principle directly to TDD, in fact to [...]

Read Full Post »

Can you refactor to MVC? – Kyle Baley
Kyle sees the pain points in doing something like this, and wonders if anyone has actually taken such a step
Coming Back to Life – Keyvan Nayyeri
Keyvan is glad he can resume his life after almost two years of almost a stand still
Delivering a Great Presentation – Mike [...]

Read Full Post »

Writing non-thread-safe code – Tim Stall
Tim explains possible threading issues, and how to throw in a unittest for simulating the issue
Testing ASP.NET MVC using Typemock AAA Syntax – Soon Hui
‘ AAA syntax stands for Arrange, Act and Assert . It is a way to make a test readable, maintainable and convenient ‘
Architecting Buildings and Software [...]

Read Full Post »

ASP.NET MVC – adopt it or not? – de-Hao
How Do I: Send Email Asynchronously with ASP.NET
‘ In this video, Chris Pels shows how to use the System.Net.Mail classes in ASP.NET to send an asynchronous email message ‘
Probability Puzzle Answered – Steve Smith
Ah, the quizmaster and the three doors! I’ve had several interesting conversations already years [...]

Read Full Post »

Beware of slow descents into unmaintainability – Jason Grundy
Strategy Pattern With Ninject – Steve Smith
Steve shows hands-on how a Inversion of Control container such a Ninject, helps you setting up a decoupled Strategy scenario. This is new stuff to me, so I replayed this scenario. Wonderful how this IoC thing resolves your dependencies. At first [...]

Read Full Post »

Learning TDD – Ray Houston
… is not an easy path, as e.g. Jay’s post below explains more thouroughly. It can really take a lot of time before you see the benefits that you know must be there
Getting the “unwashed” (aka “blue collar coders”) to unit test – Jay Kimble
‘ I fear that some love being [...]

Read Full Post »

Bumper-Sticker API Design – Joshua Bloch
The bug that almost drove me mad, and it’s not my bug – Sergio Pereira
Leadership and Self Examination: The 3 Coaching Styles – Jarod Ferguson
Passing objects to SubControllers – Matt Hinze
‘ SubControllers are MVC Controllers that are also parameters to your action methods. Incorporating their use in large systems [...]

Read Full Post »

Don’t Go For The Doughnut – Max Pool
The intricate calculations behind doing a major amount of overtime, being rewarded with a seemingly nice $100 gift card. Which translates to $0.31/hr in this case. Don’t know anything about current wages in the US, but my take is that 31 cents per hour is not what most [...]

Read Full Post »

Passive View and Cyclomatic Complexity – Nick Harrison
Starting off today with some theoretical info
Cosmos – C# Open Source Managed Operating System – Chad Z. Hower
Heavy stuff, but you can leave that to Chad. I’ll never forget seeing him speak last year on a UG meeting, where he successfully demo’ed a rocketlauncher directed by his Wii [...]

Read Full Post »