Arjan’s World

Making the Leap from Spectator to Newbie with Ruby on Rails – Russell Ball
Russell has been diving into RoR seriously over the last weeks. Has mostly likes, and some dislikes too. And got a complete new appreciation for the MVC way
Refactoring Service Dependencies to Separated Interface – Billy McCafferty
Careful explanation of making smelly code more [...]

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Wisdom From Steve Jobs: The Importance of Killing Good Ideas – Bob Sutton
Sounds counterintuitive, but it may not. Reflect on this post for a while… ‘ The idea here is that if no one is complaining about this problem, then there aren’t enough being killed ‘
*** Self-printing Game of Life in C# – Igor Ostrovsky
Not [...]

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MVC Storefront Preview 1 Available – Rob Conery
‘ There is a lot of work left to be done but I thought it would be a good idea to package up a Preview so that people can play with the site and the code ‘
The Devil’s IT Manual: Part 3 – Phrases with which to discourage [...]

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writing_a_test – Sean Feldman
‘ an interesting fact is that the influence of TDD/BDD has caused to be more “expressive” ‘
Composing Statements with Expression Trees in .NET 3.0 – Chad Myers
‘ I don’t believe you could craft whole, complex programs via Expression Tree manipulation, but I would be delighted to be proven wrong in this statement [...]

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Microsoft Windows Live Supports OpenID – Rick Turoczy
This is really good news for OpenID acceptance
Ray Ozzie Announces Windows Azure – “Windows in the Cloud” – Richard MacManus
You mind if I keep PDC news this week a bit low? You will read about it everywhere, so me guesses doesn’t add any real value reposting it here. [...]

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User Interface is the Application for the Client – Mohammad Azam
‘ Next time when you create an application make sure the user interface is nice even if you have to pay someone to create it ‘ Right on!
Learn a dynamic language now – Tim Ewald
‘ Why? Because you can do more with less code [...]

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Branch Compare…A Life saver – Martin Hinshelwood
Wonderful tool that compare two branches in TFS, right from within Visual Studio
Handling Unhandled Exceptions in XBAP Applications – Bil Simser
How to Talk to Project Managers – Mcottmeyer
‘ Those things just don’t mean much to the PM community until you help them understand how agile will fundamentally put them [...]

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The Aaron and Mike Show – 10. 23. 2008 – Mike Hall & Aaron Lerch
Mike Hall and Aaron Lerch just started a new webcast/show, that will be broadcast on a weekly basis. It’s a random talk between two geeks on several topics. I’d say that more of us should start doing something like this. Can’t [...]

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Minimize Code, Maximize Data – Mike Arace
‘ All new code is elegant. Time is what makes it kludgy ‘
StackOVerflow Notifier – Roy Osherove
For all you StackOverflow addicts
Agile Success Story: interview on how Agile movement helps company to grow and succeed – P Bielicki
Is Corporate IT a form of emotional abuse? – Leon Bambrick
Leon [...]

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No Linkblog today. Which gives me the opportunity to do a quick shoutout to my fellow linkbloggers. Together we do our utmost to provide you with regular fresh links in the .NET / Microsoft world. Thanks guys (and gal)! Hope I’m not leaving anybody out, forgive me if I did.

Alvin Ashcraft – Morning Dew
Jason Haley [...]

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