Arjan’s World

Quiet day today, apart from …well, you know, of course!

• Custom Collections with NHibernate, Part IV: Extensions! - Billy McCafferty
• Nasty “Gotcha” with ASP.NET MVC and Views - Casey Charlton
  ‘ So if you get an odd problem in ASP.NET MVC relating to Views … just make sure you haven’t got old files in your directory structure! ‘
• ReSharper 4.1 Released - Casey Charlton
• WPF in LOB - Rudi Grobler
  Not to overflow you with too many TLA (Three Letter Acronyms) but one of the most talked about things in the WPF world is, is it ready for Line-of-Business?
• VS 2008 SP1 – the worst user experience ever - Igor Moochnick
  Glad my strategy still works: wait a while when new bits come from Redmond, to see if people think it’s either or
• How is VB.NET Doing? - Kathleen Dollard
  ‘ I recently touched base with someone from the good old VB6 days. They were good old days, but I’m not going to talk about them. He asked where VB.NET went (…) ‘
• On passion - Jimmy Bogard
  ‘ One pattern I’ve started to notice lately is that continued success requires passion. Without passion comes little sustained success ‘
• 9 Ways to Enjoy Freelancing More - Steven Snell
  ‘ Freelancers are always facing the need to find new work and keep moving forward in their business. (…) But it’s also important to enjoy the work that you do ‘
• Mock Object Frameworks: NMock, RhinoMock, TypeMock - Mark Michaelis
  via Steve Pietrek
• Successful Software - James Shore
  ‘ One of the big myths of agile development is that agile teams don’t document their work ‘ Maybe even the biggest one?
• Last Call: Top 100 Software Development Blogs! - Jurgen Appelo
  This is interesting even for the fact that it lists a big number of wellknown and lesser wellknown software development blogs. Glad to see that my feedlist already contains a bit chunk of them, and it gives me (and you) an opportunity to discover some good new content
• Your Creative Genius Mindset: The Essential Qualities for “Outside the Box” Thinking - Adam Sicinski
  ‘ To be creative, is to have the capacity to think freely, openly, without limitations or constraints about problems and challenges confronting our life reality ‘ Nice graphical representation of the “Creative Genius Mindset”
• A tip on using ASP.NET validation controls - Keith Brown
  ‘ In the future when I use validation controls I’ll always provide a summary-friendly message in the ErrorMessage field, and if I need something different (typically shorter) to display inline, I’ll put it in the body of the validation control element ‘
• Documents 2.0 - Consumable Documents - Sidar Ok
  Rethinking your documentation is a very good idea, after all you don’t want to get into the situation that your collegue leaves and ‘ (…) you’ll face the hungry monster of 200 pages, which hasn’t been maintained like 10 years ago ‘
• Easy way to improve your image gallery using jQuery - Janko Jovanovic
  CSS hackery