Arjan`s World

October aready! It’s hard to keep up these days, but maybe it because autumn has really started around here. Congrats btw to all (re)elected MVP today!

O, and please, one request: let’s all carry complete names on the front pages of our blogs (and if you really don’t like that, then *at least* put it in the About page. It strikes me as curious that quite a number of folks who don’t blog anonymously, still don’t mention their name anywhere…

• Decorator Pattern - David Hayden
  ‘ Often you use the Decorator Pattern when it is decided at runtime whether or not you want to add the additional functionality offered by a Decorator Class ‘
• Common mistakes in software development (part 2): Mixing up the tiers - Ivan Porto Carrero
• Automated story-based acceptance tests lead to unmaintainable systems - Patrick Kua
• 8am and The Managed Extensibility Framework - Casey Charlton
• How do you know what to build? - Chris Spagnuolo
  ‘ Seth Godin recently had a great post about which customers you should listen to in terms of your product. Here’s his take on listening to your customers ‘
• Testing Dynamic Web Applications - Jay Fields
  ‘ Testing with FlexUnit (with it’s drawbacks) is an order of magnitude better than any experience I’ve had testing Javascript ‘
• UK Software Consultant Nightmare: The IT Recruiting Agents - Adam Tibi
  ‘ Below are some of their tricks, tactics and some commonly used phrases on the phone ‘ Adam has thouroughl listed the way (some) devious recruiters work, and why you should be aware of this. Can personally attest that this is not unique to the UK, but also happens here in the Netherlands (and why not elsewhere)
• ASP.Net via Amazon in the Cloud : Simpable
  ‘ I have been investing some options for leveraging ASP.Net in the cloud ‘ And not Amazon has exciting news (is it, I’m very curious as to this one)… ‘ Amazon EC2 running Windows Server or SQL Server provides an ideal environment for deploying ASP.NET web sites ‘
• Startup 101 - A four-part webcast - is coming - Bob Walsh
  ‘ (…) the legal, financial, business and online social aspects of launching and running a startup or microISV ‘ only at the end of the month, but in case you’re interested you can put it on a calender or whatever you use to put reminders on
• A Voice For Your Vision: How to Make Podcasting Work for Your Business - Doug Heacock
• Sysinternals Update Day Including new major release of Process Monitor (think PM + Network Monitoring = v2) - Greg Duncan
  OK people, time for the regular Sysinternals update
• Just Keep Writing! - Stepcase Lifehack
  good advice: never stop, and don’t be afraid!
• K. Scott Allen : Lazy LINQ and Enumerable Objects
  A story ‘ “I need to know”, she asked the cat, “do you keep a list of things to do each day?” (…) “I don’t keep a list, dear lady”, he said, followed by a rumbling yawn. “I keep an enumeration”‘
• PowerShell’s Security Guiding Principles - PowerShell Team
• The Pattern Bible for Distributed Computing - ‘Geekr’
  Some background pattern history, it’s descent from architecture (the brick-and-mortar version) and the ‘pattern language’
• Death by a thousand cuts - Tim Stall
  ‘ This is why continuous integration, unit tests, automation, proactive team communication, code generation, good architecture, etc… are so important ‘
• Unit Testing decoupled from TDD as well== Adoption - Roy Osherove
  ‘ The discussion on the future of unit testing for the masses has shifted (…) to TDD without good design will make really bad tests. and this is a good thing ‘
• Rethinking the Office - Dutch Design (Plus: Pics of My Home Office) - Tim Ferriss
  Very inspirational interview with Dutch designer!
  via Twitter / Christopher Bennage
• Developer Code of Ethics: On the evils of stealing someone else’s work - Steve Bohlen
  ‘ Imitation is the Sincerest form of Flattery! ‘ Not quite. Steve was pointed out some guy decompiled his binary, with the intent to document the code inside. The documented version was subsequently offered on this guy’s site, all without Steve knowing. Now, this never happened to me before, but I can imagine his surprise. Probably course the defense will be something along the lines ‘I was just helping’ (curious to see the other party’s response), but doing this without involving the original author is something anyone should know as a big no-go
• Building isolated components - Oren Eini
  ‘ In this webcast, I spoke about an architecture where all the different components of the systems are inherently separated and isolated from each other ‘
• Use UTF-8 Encoding in HTTP Requests - Keyvan Nayyeri
  ‘ There is a ContentType property for your request objects that can be set to a string value and you usually set it to the MIME type of your request parameters ‘
• Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder - Bobbie Johnson
  ‘ “One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control,” he said. “It’s just as bad as using a proprietary program ‘
  via Twitter / JRowett