Arjan’s World

Had a wonderful day at CodeCamp 2008 NL today. Still found some time skimming through the blogosphere

• Lightweight Object to Object Mapper – Stavinski
• Getting rid of strings (3): take your app settings to the next level – Andre Loker
  Don’t be underwhelmed, as this really goes in depth using examples with patterns all over the place, IoC containers, and stuff…
  ‘ In this episode I’ll explain how we can abstract from app settings and leverage the power of the Castle DictionaryAdapter to improve the way our applications access their app settings. ‘
• Fluent NHibernate – NHibernate without configuration files – VusCode – Coding dreams since 1998!
  ‘ I believe that the most important reason why NHibernate is not more widely adopted by general DEV population is exactly the “Java XML configuration” PIA feeling you have while working with it ‘ We are lucky that now there is a more DEV friendly new project
• How to view information in ViewState using ASP.NET 2.0 and 3.5 – Suprotim Agarwal
• Stolen Identity via Password Reset – Jim Duffy
  ‘ Interesting quick read from the Scientific American website ‘ Interesting indeed, but not if you know a bit about social engineering and what you can google these days. It is astonishing what you can achieve with a little bit of ‘data mining’
• TFS Adoption at Microsoft – Grant Holliday
  Grant has the #users, projects, source files etc, indicating the widespread adoption of TFS witihin Microsoft (as it should)
• Firefox, ClickOnce, XBAPs and .NET 3.5 SP1 – Scott Hanselman
• What A Slow Build Might Tell You – Davy Brion
  ‘ apply the technique of Root Cause Analysis to the problem of a slow build of a fictional (yet very common) project ‘
• Five Important Lessons I’ve Learned As An Entrepreneur – Rich Whittle
• One Day of TDD – Devver
  Conclusion: nice, but staying with TDC instead… (What’s TDC you say? read on)
• Clueless UK Government: Might We Have Your PIN Please? – Security Monkey
  See how far ’stupid security’ can go; this one is from the UK, but it happens everywhere…
• Not Everyone Has the Same Definition of “Done” – Steve Rowe
• MvcFutures And ASP.NET MVC Beta – Phil Haacked
  (…) a quick heads up about the MvcFutures assembly within ASP.NET MVC CodePlex Preview 5 ‘
• ASP.NET MVC Application Building: Forums #1 – Create the Perfect Application – Stephen Walther
  Cool new series. Here’s part two and three!
• What’s Up Doc – Karl Seguin
• MEF Making its debut on Codeplex – Glenn Block
  And Greg Duncan has a little roundup