Arjan’s World

How Microsoft uses TFS – Grant Holliday Some great resources if you want to learn more about how Microsoft uses the product internally Leveraging Existing ASP.NET Features in ASP.NET MVC – Ben Scheirman Regarding the MVC framework: ‘ You’ll be relieved to know that many of ASP.NET’s platform features work the same way they always [...]

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this concerns mainly my one other reader in the Netherlands, but since it’s about community building,  you might be interested in creating or joining groups in your area. Therefore this is written in English. Recently I have been trying to set up an initial Alt.NET meeting here in the Netherlands. You probably have heard about [...]

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Beware of future creep – Jamis Buck Yes, you read the title right ‘ It is so easy to fall into this trap, since it runs under the heading of “saving myself work down the road ‘ Software Development Methodologies Zoo – Johnny Idol From Waterfall to XP The scalability of Scrum – Chip Lemmon [...]

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Keep It Simple, Genius! – Mitch Ditkoff ‘ In time, it became clear to me that the Latin name dropping routine was just a game ‘ Want to do cool things with ASP.NET MVC? – Aaron Jensen Pointers to ome interesting MVC stuff How to Launch a Group Blog Project – Chris Brogan Chris has [...]

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Sorting Algorithms: The Gnome Sort – OJ Reeves OJ is back with a fresh installment in his sorting adventures. This time the well-known and time tested Gnome Sort (to be honest: I do know what a gnome is, but the sort was unfamiliar…) Resumes Are Mostly Useless – Andrew Wulf Andrew is able to get [...]

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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 [...]

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After a day off from blogging it’s good to see a lot of fresh content having arrived. Topics are quite inspirational, hovering around honest, learning, and the willingness to self-improve. Good stuff! Did I Actually Write That? – Jim Holmes ‘ (…) this is the hard one, be open about the mistakes you’ve made. Check [...]

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Mocking and stubbing easier than ever with Moq 2.6 – Daniel Cazzulino ‘ In Moq, your mocks are by default “loose”, so they never throw exceptions when they are invoked without a corresponding expectation ‘ EventBroker: a notification component for synchronous and asynchronous, loosly coupled event handling – Urs Enzler ‘ EventBroker is a component [...]

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Blogging might be a bit light the next couple weeks, due to lot’s of (positive!) things on this guy’s plate. Are we all toddlers? – Jonas Bandi Jonas sees software development is evolving so fast, that in fact we might remain a child forever. Wonderful thought don’t you think, being a child forever? Well, at [...]

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Book Recommendation: Letting Go of the Words – Joshua Porter ‘ If there is one book you should read next, it’s “Letting Go of the Words” by Ginny Redish ‘ Keys To Web 3.0 Design and Development When Using ASP.NET – Jon Davis Long article carefully laying out a plan for the future it you’re [...]

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