Arjan`s World

For the next couple days it is probably quiet over here. Family visits, and an off-site Agile workshop on Monday guarantee being disconnected. See you back in a couple!

• Enumerations And Extension Methods - Sean Feldman
  ‘ Enumerations are for enumeration. Obvious. Often, though, it’s used also for some metadata knowledge (…) This is where extension methods can make it nicer ‘
• Book Review #9: “The Big Moo” - Brian di Croce
  ‘ I highly recommend anyone in your organization that has a role of leadership to get a copy of The Big Moo and share the stories with the rest of the organization ‘
• Search, Ask and only then Code - Soon Hui
  ‘ When, and only when all the external helps fail, you should resort to coding. But even as you type along, you should always remember to turn back to search (…) ‘
• The Right Tools - Ethan Vizitei
  You just need the *right* tools and not just any tool, when it comes to it. Ethan has an important piece of advice: don’t wait for your users to report production errors to you, do yourself the favor of getting informed as they occur
• Beginning ReSharper - Randy Patterson
• Matching TFS build labels with custom build number - Etienne Tremblay
• MVC Storefront’s Next Episode - Rob Conery
  ‘ Integrating PayPal is pretty simple, but the API I’ve chosen is pretty hard to test so I’m stepping outside the TDD bits unfortunately (…) ‘
• Installing VisualSVN Subversion - Steve Smith
• 100 skills every one should know… - Eric Gunnerson
  ‘ Popular Mechanics has a list of “100 skills every one should know”. How many have you have? ‘
• *** Avoding the Dangers of Ambiguously Defined Data-Types - Rick Minerich
  ‘ (…) as any beginning programmer knows, it is very easy to program in an object oriented programming language while completely ignoring the underlying paradigm ‘ This is, if I remember correctly, what Steve McConnell calls “programming in a langage vs. programming *into* a language”. It’s not difficult to have an OO language, but not be able to use it effectively - pigs and lipgloss in one sentence anyone (as a wellknown person did earlier this week)?
• Agile Testing tools List - ISerializable - Roy Osherove
  Nice list, giving an overview of all (more or less) wellknown tools used in agile testing
• Google Testing Blog: To “new” or not to “new”… - Miško Hevery
  How to make your code more testable by keeping classes loosely coupled
• CERN Officially Unveils Its Grid: 100,000 Processors, 15 Petabytes a Year - Frederic Lardinois
  ‘ CERN today officially unveiled the massive computer network that will crunch the enormous amount of data coming from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) ‘ Impressive figures
• Should You Build or Buy Your Micro-ISV? - Rob Walling
  ‘ I’ve been on both sides of the coin: I’ve purchased 10 profit-oriented software products or websites, and built three ‘
• Steve Jobs Had No Heart Attack…And Citizen Journalism Just Failed - Sarah Jobs
• ReSharper Guidelines — First Time Users - Ilya Ryzhenkov
  Ilya, .NET Product Manager @ JetBrains, starts a series on ReSharper,aimed at first time users
• Things I Learned This Week - David Starr
  Good stuff; why don’t we all post a weekly ‘things I learned…’?
• Should Freelancers Share Their Knowledge? - Sergio Ordóñez
  ‘ You learn to draw, to code or to design by practicing, not by reading tutorials or articles. Tutorials can motivate you or give you some tricks but the real learning is based on practice ‘
• Bindable LINQ: Getting Started - Paul Stovell
  A good way to force us to read help documentation: write it and post it on your blog
• Automated Acceptance Tests: What are they good for? - Patrick Kua
  ‘ I think every team developer must understand that different types of test give us different levels of feedback (…) and each has a different level of cost ‘
• No Empty Selector in jQuery - Rick Strahl
  ‘ One thing that bugs me about jQuery selectors is that if you pass a null or empty value into the jQuery constructor you end up with a selection of the document ‘
• Web Platform Installer: Trying to make it easier to setup for web development - Scott Hanselman
• My very first C program - Sterling Camden
  ‘ (…) sometimes I miss those old days when you were trusted to know what you were doing and severely punished if you didn’t — you learned so much more along the way ‘ Sniff. That’s one of the biggest problems off all these levels of abstraction we surround ourselves with these days. They enable us to get anything done with only a small LOC, but we understand less and less what happens on the lowest levels. Still, thought never programmed in C before, I’m happy to just remain ignorant
• Agile Development FAQ Part 1 - Shivprasad Koirala
• Working on my next Reflector addin - the Debris Addin - Jason Haley
• Planning for TFS 2010 (fka Rosario) – A picture says a thousand… - Greg Duncan
  ‘(…) in this cause, that may be an understatement. ‘
• SaaS: I’ve got an idea for a web application - Mitch Denny
  ‘ Like a lot of software developers I aspire to build a killer application that will make me rich beyond my wildest dreams (…) ‘ You know this feeling, I do too. Now you admit it! The article is on SaaS however, not on our dreams. Mitch has more thoughts here