Arjan’s World

Big one today, caught up with the second half of this week, which happened faster than I could take. Happy reading!

• *** Are .net interfaces required – Chris Brandsma
  After a dude questioned interfaces, Chris has a compelling list 7 reasons in favor of them. And the best thing: “the dude” comments!
• Starting projects -The Igloo Coder
  ‘ Since ending the call the thing that has fueled the anger more is that I just spent four days training on these things and this guy was in the room. It’s obvious that he didn’t pay any attention. Note to never have internet access in a training room again ‘ Igloo obviously needs to get something off his chest. If all true, he is completely right. This sounds like a dev that is severely hampering team motivation, slowing down the whole project if not taken care of. Hope all is well now, but people don’t change over a weekend normally
• Microsoft Visual Studio – Gunther Lenz
  ‘ ”Oslo” is the codename for Microsoft’s forthcoming modeling platform ‘
• C# Events and Delegates in 3 seconds – Tom Fischer
  The elevator pitch:
  ‘ A Delegate is a (or collection of) strongly typed FunctionPointer(s)
  An Event is a wrapped Delegate ‘
• Book Review: The Productive Programmer – Jim Holmes
• Setting the Publish Status to Include for 3rd Party Files with XBAP deployments – Bil Simser
  ‘ I was trying to deploy a new WPF app via XBAP today and we were experiencing an odd deployment error ‘
• My default asp.net architecture – Chris Brandsma
• Read and Write compressed data to a binary file using ASP.NET – Suprotim Agarwal
  code tip
• jQuery Demo 1 – John Teague
  Simple demo showing off jQuery’s capabilities
• Interfaces and Testing – Steve Smith
  ‘ If your tests reference a class, and so do other classes in your production code, then the class really is being used by more than one class (and therefore, an interface may make a lot of sense) ‘
• Social Bookmarking Platform Released – Somasegar
  Still having difficulties seeing MSDN and Social Bookmarking, but maybe in time we will see something successful. OTOH, seeing the negative series of comments here, I can only think it is not the nicest thing being an easy target for insults from script kiddies as a Microsoft senior VP
• PostSharp RTMed! – Luisabreu
• What Makes Great Content? – J.D. Meier
  Food for thought for the bloggers among us
• Still trying to figure out what DI/IoC is but afraid to speak up? – Greg Duncan
  ‘ I’d bet there’s a silent developer majority our there who might be in the same boat as me. We’ve heard about it, seen few casts, read a few articles, but have yet to actually jump in… ‘ OK, I admit it too. I’m with Greg, feeling about the same. And that’s the heart of the problem of having a link blog: there is not a subject I have never read about, but the majority of topics I have never even tried a code sample to “reallly” grasp it
• Little LINQ puzzle – Igor Ostrovsky
  And another tougher one
• JQuery, the very very basics – Lesson 1 – DotnetSlackers
  ‘ A task that would take 10 lines of code with traditional JavaScript can be accomplished with JQuery in just 1 line of code ‘
• StyleCop was just released! – Scott Pio
  Tool for use within Visual Studio ‘ (…) a tool that formats your code to all standards that makes it readable and nicely organized for human consumption ‘
• Overriding ToString() Makes Debugging Easier – Omar Kooheji
  Simple but effective tip making debugging a bit easier
• Castle Windsor – Configuring your IoC Container – DimeCasts.Net #44 (webcast)
• *** Transitioning – part III – enter the learner – Sergio Pereira
  ‘ Unfortunately the lack of initiative is a plague that affects not only software development but pretty much every field ‘
  Sergio shares a wealth of tips on what to do – and what not to (!) – when joining yet another team. Take note of the end, where he lists a series of complaints that we normally throw at the problems we see around us, yet failing to do anything about them
• Testing your IoC Bindings – Derik Whittaker
  ‘ I know this may seem like overkill, but I feel that by having my IoC bindings covered by tests I am covering all my bases ‘
• New Webcast: Understanding REST – Dan Rigsby
  ‘ This video is designed to explain REST at an architectural level, without diving into how to implement it in any specific language ‘
• Improve your C# with IronRuby – Justin Etheredge
  Justin encourages us to take a look into the IronRuby code base and get some new ideas to extend our own C# code bases… if you haven’t inspected some new source the last week, this could be a nice exercise
• Object Oriented F# – More Extension Everything – Matthew Podwysocki
  ‘ Extension everything in F# is pretty powerful to allow us to not only create extension methods like C#, but properties, static methods, events, and indexed properties ‘
• The best (and next best) possible advice I could give you about using the MVC framework – Jeremy D. Miller
  ‘ (…) keep your MVC framework usage and the server side views as simple as possible. Take all that time you saved on fancy server side work and apply it to serious jQuery-fu ‘
• Scott Hanselman’s Computer Zen – The Weekly Source Code 33 – Microsoft Open Source inside Google Chrome
• Some thoughts on security books – Alkampfer
  ‘ There are a lot of good books on security but I think that the argument deserves some special treatment (…) “We does not need more security books but more security in each Book”‘
• How To Keep The Freelancing Spark (Without Burning Out) – Dave Navarro
  ‘ One of the blessings of freelancing is that you get to set your own hours – but that can become a curse as well ‘
• Determining if a Conditional Binding is Resolvable With Ninject – Fredrik Kalseth
• MVC vs. MVP: A Hillbilly’s Journey – Kyle Baley
• Is the SaaS Market Broken, or Just Efficient? – Scott Sehlhorst
• Five Ways to Use Social Media to Reach People Who Don’t Use Social Media – ReadWriteWeb
  ‘ Are you the only person at work who likes to read blogs? ‘ ehh, yes, I’m afraid so ‘ Is it your job to sell things to people who would probably throw you out of their offices if you said the word “twitter?” ‘ Some pointers to “teach” in this situation. People might be more social than you realize (think LinkedIn, Myspace, YouTube)
• Design pattern – Inversion of control and Dependency injection – Shivprasad Koirala
• Learning to Speak – Chris Spagnuolo
  ‘ Until this week, I thought I was a pretty good public speaker ‘
• The ALT.NET Criterion – Glenn Block
  ‘ (…) the real question is not about ALT.NET, it’s “How do we build better software?” ‘ Right. It can never be all about a methodology, but only what something like Alt.NET can do to help us doing a better job
• 3 Ways To Be Memorable By Breaking People’s Patterns – Brian Armstrong
  ‘ By breaking out of your comfort zone and doing something a little different than everyone else you can connect with new people on a regular basis ‘ Isn’t this something that makes so much sense, but can be so tought to achieve?
• Syncing: DropBox Leaves Private Beta, Invite No Longer Necessary – Jason Fitzpatrick
  Haven’t tried it yet, but DropBox seems like exactly the answer for one of my most annoying issues working on multiple machines, that is file synchronization