Arjan’s World

Busy times ahead over here…

• Agree or disagree, if a team/firm can’t work well under a waterfall or v-model life cycle they won’t be able to work in agile? – Sander Hoogendoorn
  ‘ I would definitively say that it is easier to transform a company without rigid methodology to agile, than to convert a waterfall styled company to agile ‘
• Doing Nothing & Procrastinating Aren’t the Same Thing – Joel Falconer
  Sometimes it is of course, but there are moment some serious procrastination is the best thing to do to get you started ‘ You sit down to write a paper. You’ve done all the research you could possibly need to do, but for some reason, you just can’t get started ‘
• Tools Matter: Automated Builds / Automated Deployments – Rob Reynolds
  ‘ Done. Like dinner. I can deploy to four environments within this 3 minute time frame ‘
• Great XAML Tool – XamlPadX – Rhonda Tipton
  ‘ It is easy to install. Simply take some XAML code and paste it in the application. You get immediate feedback. Very nice ‘
  Looks nice, especially itf you find yourself struggling with the overhead that VS creates when showing how your XAML looks like (although I heard it say that SP1 has increased performance
• TECHED: Lock note – Predicting the next 10 years in IT – Craig Bailey
• 21 Developer Rites of Passage – Russell Ball
  I’ve been through several of them at least. As for #, some people will probably never realize this… ‘ Realizing for the first time that office diplomacy often had a bigger influence on project success than how many software best practices were being followed ‘
• *** Build the tools that aren’t there – Oren Eini
  Why do ‘they’ object to automation the hack out of everything that is inside a computer ‘ Yeah, we thought about doing that, but Abc does things in a way I don’t like and Efg isn’t compatible with our Foo requirements ‘
  A small addition here: the divide between us developers, and them is that ‘they’ have a job they rather not loose to our automation: just recently I encountered a situation where someone clearly was not happy with my suggestions of automating away a couple jobs they do by hand now: we can easily do this, but politics will prevent it. It’s a political world we live in…
• NDepend or My Code Uncovered – Lee Brandt
• There’s no I in Interface. Oh, wait… – Fredrik Kalseth
  ‘ (…) why not use the I for something meaningful? Ask the interface the question: What do you do? And the interface says: ISendEmail or ISearchFiles or IPingComputers ‘
• Introducing TDD: How I Would Do It – Davy Brion
  Creating a TDD ’sales pitch’ ‘ This post is pretty much the outline of everything i hope to say in those 10 minutes
• Thanks for Flushing…er, Building – Neal Ford
  ‘ If you haven’t already, install auto-flushers for your project, in the form of continuous integration, and start thinking about more important things ‘
  thanks Alan!
• The Liskov Substitution Principle for “Duck-Typed” Languages – Dean Wample
• Annoying IE8 beta 2 CSS breakage – Jon Skeet
  Awwm , my CSS skillz have degraded so much that I have a hard time understanding this. Fortunately I’m nog alone
• Argue With Your Customer – Peter Seale
  ‘ This is a fundamental aspect of any project, whether it’s SharePoint or not—it just happens to sting more (a lot more) in SharePoint when you’re forced to follow strict requirements ‘
• Grok Programming » Blog Archive » Watch Coupling Kill Your Project
  ‘ So you’ve identified some behavioral coupling and need to do something about it. Well, as I see it you have a few options: ‘
• Windows Forms – Creating and Persisting Custom User Settings in C# – ‘Member 2487219′
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #41 – Create Cascading Dropdown Lists with Ajax – Stephen Walther