Arjan’s World

It was a difficult effort to bring you a chromeless entry today, but I succeeded

• Make It Work, Make It Clean? – Davy Brion
  Davy talks on trade offs to make when we write our new code: with the end result in mind from the start, or just start out writing what comes to mind, refactor later, but be able to show working code faster. Interesting question to think about a bit more…
• Using Spring.Net, SQLite and NHibernate- Benny Michielsen
  Starting a new project from scratch, and how these tools come into play there
• ASP.NET MVC Preview 5 and Form Posting Scenarios – Scott Guthrie
  And Scott is back with his usual big post accompanying a new MVC drop
• Prognostication.NET – Devprime
  “What are Microsoft technologies that should have died by now?”
• Becoming a Visual Studio Jedi Part 1 – Peter Ritchie
  ‘ In much the same grain as James’ Resharper Jedi posts, I’m beginning a series of posts on becoming a Visual Studio Jedi ‘ Good idea, there’s still a lot to discover in the “raw” product
• What’s Wrong With This Code? (#20) – K. Scott Allen
  Exercising the refactoring skills
• Saving/Exporting your XAML Canvas to an Image/Bitmap/PNG – Greg Duncan
  ‘ This is one of those “I know I’ll need but never be able to find again in the future” code snips… ‘
• Developer Humping or Extreme Programming – Mike Dopp
  ‘ Too Many cooks in the kitchen. When is too many developers one project a bad idea? ‘
• XAML Power Toys – Rudi Grobler
  VS add-in
• Prevent IIS from Binding to all Assigned IP Addresses – Billy McCafferty
• Is It Just Me…or Did This Blog Used to Be More Fun? – Russell Ball
  Russell looks for a new focus on his blog, which is apparently in need for more humor… ‘ In the future, I’m going to experiment with striking a better balance between these two sides of my personality ‘
• The Big Development Project: How much should it cost? – Peter Stev
• Passionate, Not Dogmatic – Jay Fields
  ‘ The difference between passionate and dogmatic is slim, but the result is dramatic ‘
• Staying Sane as a Technical Manager – Aaron Lerch
  Three words are required: ‘ Know your limits ‘
• Testing with Opinionated ASP.NET MVC – Joshua Flanagan
  ‘ the concepts of “opinionated frameworks” and “convention over configuration” have gained a large following from people rejecting the tedious and noisy declarative code typically associated with shaping a one-size-fits-all framework ‘
• 5 Easy Questions for Mary Poppendieck – Jurgen Appelo
• Using WCF Callback Services Throttling – Cameron Hanchey
  ‘ When using callbacks with transient subscribers, you must leave the channel open. This is how to manage and use service throttling to open up your service to more than 10 subscribers ‘
• Patterns in Real life – Boby Thomas P
  ‘ Design patterns played out with people instead of objects ‘ Actually a funny idea: comparing the abstract world of patterns to real life objects
• 5 Hacks Just For Writers – Thursday Bram
  ‘ It seems like all of us have intensive writing projects going on at any given time. Considering how much creative power such a project can require, it just makes sense to minimize the efforts we have to make ‘
• Talking Security with Microsoft’s Misfit Geek Joe Stagner – Deep Fried Bytes Episode 11
  another episode of DFB. Seems to get itself a place alongside the other .NET/Microsoft tech blogs
• *** Security: How to Set Up a Laptop Security System – Adam Pash
  Cool high tech and less high tech ways to frustrate laptop thiefs