Arjan’s World

Let’s push this overdue edition out of the door quickly. Oh, and please do not let an ‘8′ and a closing bracket directly follow: most blogging engines (Wordpress at least) think that’s more funny than it is

• How to Write Injection-Proof SQL – Bruce Schneier
  Bruce points to an article on this important topic
• the future of software testing (part 8 ) – James Whittaker
  James concludes his series on the future of testing with a possibly controverial prediction ‘(…) namely that in the future we will ship test code with our products and be able to exercise that code remotely ‘
• More jQuery in ASP.NET – Alt.NET Podcast Episode 12
• Be the Underdog – Nate Kohari
  ‘ I’d take it one step further and see yourself as David, and choose a Goliath to attack. Embrace your role as underdog (…) ‘
• Maybe you can’t make money doing what you love – Seth Godin
  ‘ (…) if you’re driven, talented and focused, you may discover that the market loves what you do. (…) But, alas, that doesn’t mean you can monetize it, quit your day job and spend all day writing songs ‘
• Which URLs should you add in the XML Sitemap file of your Website? – Amit Agarwal
  ‘ The three confusion and non-overlapping options are (a) everything, (b) just the important pages or (c) URLs that have not been crawled and indexed yet ‘ another item to the TODO list (err, that would be the @MaybeLater list
• Dealing With Boredom At Work – Abhijit Nadgouda
  ‘ (…) the next time you feel bored at work, just go out on the Web and learn something new outside your work ‘ instead of wandering the intarnets the whole day – you know who you are, don’t you?
• Use Reflection to find Methods that implement explicit interfaces – Roy Osherove
  ‘ here’s how you can iterate over a type definition’s methods and see if one of them is an explicit intreface definition ‘ small code sample ready for immediate consumption
• Learn from the right people at the right time – Matt Linderman
  A word of advice for those taking the first steps towards their own company: why read Jack Welch when you haven’t even started founding your company: ‘ Find a star in your own galaxy to emulate. Seek out a company that has some valuable similarities to what you do and watch ‘
• Why is it called Project Management? – Glen Alleman
  ‘ It dawned on me, while listening to the “project management consultant,” that there is a critically missing concept in the pop-psychology approach to project management ‘
• Finding a partner to trust – Peter Stev
  Desribing the process of creating an RFP and how to find a good partner to execute it
• Change Your Environment – Steve Rowe
  ‘ As people grow in maturity in their jobs, the way they interact with their environment changes ‘ Hopefully. This is the kicker observation ‘ Mature employees will come with solutions, not complaints ‘ So look around you and see how your colleagues are doing
• Scrum for Team System 2.2 Released – More Reports, bug fixes, SQL Server 2008 and new Report Slide Show feature – Greg Duncan
• The Rate-Your-Manager Test! – Jurgen Appelo
  ‘ my hypothesis is that bad managers can have both unmotivated and motivated employees. And good managers should have more motivated people. But let’s see how my hypothesis works out… ‘ Do Jurgen a favor and rate him/her. Check back as Jurgen will evaluate the initial hypothesis
• The Future of Programming Languages – Rick Minerich
  Essay highlighting metaprogramming, dynamic vs static typing etc.
• C# Anonymous Object Tip – Brad Wilson
  ‘ If you want your anonymous object field names to be the same as the value you’re passing in, you don’t need the name ‘
• Kanban Systems – James Shore
  ‘ I haven’t seen any good overviews of Kanban systems. In this essay, I’ll try to fill the gap. I’ll describe what Kanban systems are, why they work, and when you should use them ‘
• API Hooking with MS Detours – Alex Abramov
• Windows Workflow Foundation FAQ – Shivprasad Koirala
  Entry level intro containing some clear pictures showing relation between code and graphical representation
• One Year At Microsoft – Phil Haack
  Phil looks back on a busy year