Arjan’s World

Going to <a href=”http://codecamp.nl/”>CodeCamp</a> tomorrow; might be a little quiet over here the next couple days…

• Testing Windows Form using TypeMock – Soon Hui
  ‘ Here I am going to demonstrate how to use TypeMock to test some of the GUI actions ‘
  Very helpful and clear explanation of how to use TypeMock in testing your code. Using a simplified example makes it easier to drive the lessons of this post home
• What to do When Your Work is Criticized Publicly – Celine Roque
  ‘ Criticism doesn’t always have to feel so negative. When we filter out the clutter and choose to learn from our mistakes, what seems like a bad day at work can become an important stepping stone in our careers ‘
• Testing Lists with Typemock Isolator – Travis Illig
  Travis sees this question pop up different time in the forums, so is kind enough to provide an asnwer in blog format
  ‘ How do you mock a list using Typemock Isolator? ‘
• Book review: Ajax Design Patterns – Luisabreu
• How to Split a Text into Words – Keyvan Nayyeri
  This is the first part of a series of a few blog posts that I’m going to write about common string manipulation problems in .NET (especially C#) with some code snippets
• How to make your staff more productive – Dave Campbell
• Favor small and frequent checkin over big ones – Alkampfer
• ASP.NET 3.5 URL Routing – Kalyan Bandarupall
• Martin Fowler on Avoiding Common Scrum Pitfalls – Jacky Li
  Interesting InfoWorld interview with Martin Fowler, via Abhijit Nadgouda
• Contest: Cory Doctorow’s Cipher Wheel Rings – Bruce Schneier
• Becoming a remote developer – Kyle Baley
  As a normal worker drone I’m always attracted to the world of the free agents, able to take on only interesting work
• DataGridView in Windows Forms – Tips, Tricks and Frequently Asked Questions(FAQ) – Suprotim Agarwal
• Using Generic Extension Methods – Samer Abu Rabie
• The Open-Closed Principle for Languages with Open Classes – Dean Wampler
• “One Hen”: How one person can make a Big Difference – Friday Reflections
  Inspiring story on how micro financing and micro lending can make a huge difference
• I love fluent interfaces – Alkampfer
  ‘ Fluent interfaces like these fully benefit from intellisense and are really simple to use ‘
• What Is Design? – Frank La Vigne
  via Alvin Ashcraft
• Retrieving values from an IDataReader – Andre Loker
  ‘ espite the undoubted advantages of ORM you probably need to fetch data directly from an IDataReader from time to time ‘
• Seven Principles of Lean Software Development – Respect People – P Bielicki
  ‘ Working in a team means not only solving technical problems, designing stuff and make decisions together. One of the most important factor that makes teams successful is Respect. ‘
• Whip IE6 Now – Andrew Wulf
  ‘ So far I’ve only worked with CSS issues (JavaScript is next) and it’s making me tear my hair out (which is hard since it’s cut very short)
  …
  Whip IE6 Now! ‘
• Identifing Waste, the Lean Way – Raymond Lewallen
  ‘ This ties a bit into over-processing, but production is a result of processing, so when you have over-production, you’ve already over-processed ‘
• Generating VSTS 2008 Coverage statistics – Mark Flory