Arjan`s World

Very late edition because yesterday evening (my time) our provider was unable to give us connectivity…

• StackOverflow - The Answer to “-site:ExpertsExchange”? - Sara Chipps
  Sara walks around in the new land of stackoverflow, checking what all the buzz is about‘ The UI is welcoming, and I say that as a developer. Well, maybe not so much a developer as much as just someone who likes a “no frills” UI ‘
• Breaking out of my ReSharper Rut - Russell Ball
  ‘ I’ve been using ReSharper for over a year, but it recently occurred to me that I’m still only using about 1/4 of the functionality ‘ So Russell stepped forward to become a ReSharper Jedi
• Schneier on Security: Security ROI
  ‘ It’s become a big deal in IT security, too. Many corporate customers are demanding ROI models to demonstrate that a particular security investment pays off
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  It’s a good idea in theory, but it’s mostly bunk in practice ‘
• .NET Rocks! #373 - Randall and Woodward on TFS 2008 and Beyond!
  ‘ Brian Randall and Martin Woodward talk about Team Foundation Server 2008, and all the goodness within ‘ Looks like an interesting episode
• Agile Project Status Reporting - Kelly Waters
  ‘ The burndown chart gives a really clear indication of status. Particularly if the team is very disciplined about the definition of done ‘
• ASP.NET MVC Diary #2 WHAT? - Stanford Kennedy
• Upfront Analysis Saves Time - Bill Miller
  ‘ Two weeks later, he was still working on it, and the performance improvement was only marginal. I said, ‘Ravi, it’s time to profile the code.’ Top gun programmers sometimes need a soft push back into reality to regain the pragmatic approach
• Confidence in the Cloud - Pat Helland
  ‘ Most of the time, customers really want availability at the expense of classic consistency! New means of expressing looser consistencies are emerging to provide availability even when failures occur! ‘
• Google’s Dream Browser, Chrome: Coming soon to your computer - Greg Hughes
  Details on Google’s newest upcoming project “Chrome”, which is supposed to be the web browser of the future. Greg has more details in a followup post
• My First Agile Project, Part 1: Doing 80% - Matt Grommes
  ‘ I’m calling this part of the story Doing 80% because the problem was we were doing 80% of Scrum ‘/i> Another warning that cherry picking is dangerous if you start out working Agile
• Finally some pair programming research - Siddharta
  ‘ Convincing management has generally been a common problem with pair programming, but if more than 60% say that its working well, then I wonder why management won’t listen to them ‘ You know why: well, ask yourself - why would they? It’s because they (and people in general too, I guess) don’t know about this specific piece of research. Iif they did, they would distrust it, find some pointers saying exactly the opposite. And if that doesn’t help, they will just follow their gut feeling. It is not easy to convince people of some idea completely strange to their way of thinking
• Four books to pre-order - Bart de Smet
  “Books are not dead yet” section
• Why I still read technical books - Tim Stall
• How to Write Your Own IM Bot in Less Than 5 Minutes - Amit Agarwal
  Use your IM client in a slightly different way than you are used to
• My Dev Kit - Alvin Ashcraft
  Alvin got some inspiration and blogs his development hardware/softwrae environment
• 11 Free Mind Mapping Applications & Web Services - Joel Falconer
  One of those tools that you know might be helpful, but you never came about trying them. Now you could