Arjan’s World

Small edition on this cold and quiet Saturday

A new book: Notation and Thought – Joe Duffy
‘ Most people I know have had a similar “Ah-Hah!” moment associated with LISP, but it was when I first truly realized the deep extent to which a programming language shapes thought — sometimes in negative ways. LISP put [...]

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The Ten Best Books of 2008 – Chris Spagnuolo
Genesis: Bridging The Gap Between Requirements And Code – Davy Brion
Subtext 2.1 Released! Contains Security Update – Phil Haack
“I know it doesn’t work but it’s done” – a story about the definition of done – Pbielicki
Check/Uncheck all Items in an ASP.NET CheckBox List using jQuery – Suprotim [...]

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A happy Thanksgiving to all US readers

Visualizing LINQ expressions in the debugger – Jimmy Bogard
The problem with SVN – Adrian Aisemberg
‘ When working on a local working copy of an SVN repository, a file might be changed or unchanged, and it might be current (up-to-date) or old ‘
Musing about Code Generation, MDSD and DSLs – [...]

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The next meeting from the newly formed Alt.NET group in the Netherlands – AltDotNetherlands – is planned! It will take place in Cafe Americain in Amsterdam, just like last month, starting at 20.00. If you’re going to be present (everyone is welcome!), maybe you could fill out the >list of attendees so we know how [...]

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Is It Appropriate to Use Non-.NET Libraries in Your Day to Day Work? – Jonathan Allen
How to add a test run configuration to test project with Visual Studio 2008 – Simone Chiaretta
‘ When you create a test project from scratch the test run configuration file is automatically added by the project template, but if the [...]

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Scala basics: What is Scala? – ‘Daan’
Not a Production Quality Software – Oren Eini
‘ A while ago I worked at a bank, doing stuff there, and I was exposed to their internal IT structure. As a result of that experience, I decided that I will never put any money in that bank ‘
PTOM: Bend 3rd [...]

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MVC Storefront: Episode 25 Preview – Rob Conery
For those still capably of keeping up with Rob’s enourmous series implementing a webstore using ASP.NET MVC. Really interesting as he has been drinking the DDD kool aid recently
How to clean up a folder tree with NAnt – Simone Chiaretta
‘ If you want to redistribute the source of [...]

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Dude, Where’s My LINQ DML? – Bart de Smet
Overcommitted? Face the music and talk to your client – Chip Camden
‘ You use your most diligent combination of research, rock(et) science, and haruspicy to come up with your best estimate for the project ‘ And then dark clouds are gathering above your head because you messed [...]

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Behavior Driven Development Part 0 of n – Lee Brandt
‘ BDD is how we’re supposed to be doing Test Driven Development ‘
How to Convince your Customers they need a CMS – Scott Pio
VSTS Things I Learned Last Week – David Starr
‘ It’s a definite truth that if you want to learn about something, teach a [...]

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What Hiring Managers Look for in a Resume – Johanna Rothman
Career advice
Bad Interview Question: What is your greatest weakness? – Tim Stall
Using Windows Azure for the continuous integration – Rinat Abdullin
The Only Way To Test Private Methods – Davy Brion
‘ Let’s think about the concept of testing a private method. If you feel the need to [...]

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