Arjan’s World

An easy and efficient way to improve .NET code performances – Patrick Smacchia
Implementing value objects – Sander Hoogendoorn
‘ A value object is a small and simple object, such as Isbn or Email that is meaningful to the customer domain, and is used for validation, often as type of properties of domain objects ‘
Dynamic Linq expression [...]

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.NET Development Perf Testing in a Cloud VM (EC2) – Jason Young
Jason took the step of testing performance of Amazon’s cloud VM’s by doing a heavy build using VS2008. Amazon is faster, and has a lot of advantages. Also disadvantages though, so you have to weigh your options to see if it’s something for you [...]

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XML Documentation File For Your .Net Project – It’s Important – Shahar Y
A reminder to have those XML doc files created for your project
Drinking from the Fire Hose – How to Stay Informed Without Drowning – Dana Coffey
Dana teaches you how to be social++ without getting crazy
PTOM: The Decorator Pattern – Sean Chambers
Pattern time, Sean [...]

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The fallacy of IRepository – Oren Eini
Controlling authentication with the WF 3.5 SendActivity – Jon Flanders
Book Review: Essential WCF For .NET 3.5 – Jim Holmes
‘ This book’s very well written and does a great job of explaining a lot of the features around WCF. (…) right off the bat they do a solid job [...]

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Clean Code – A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship – Sean Feldman
Using PostgreSQL in your C# (.NET) application (An introduction) – Adrian Pasik
Early thoughts on MEntity – Alex Thissen
Stories Too Big – Vertical Slices – Steve Smith
‘ How Do You Break Up an Epic into Stories? ‘
Giving IT consulting clients realistic estimations – Chip Camden
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On Failures Of Agile Projects – Abhijit Nadgouda
(…) usually the non-programming skillset gets overlooked and [as?, ed.] the root cause for failures ‘
MVC troubleshooting: If the controller doesn’t have a controller factory… Tim Stall
6 Stupid Mistakes Companies Make with Their Online Communities – Esther Schindler
Troubles downloading public symbols? – Carlo C
Software Craftsmanship – Craig [...]

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Remotely connecting to a Hyper-V virtual machine with networking disabled – Grant Holliday
“C:\Program Files\Hyper-V\vmconnect.exe” MyHyperVServer VS2010CTP
The Myth of Self-Organizing Teams : Jeffrey Palermo
‘ In order for a team to exist, it must have a mission, a purpose in life. This mission must be directed, and is probably what caused the team to form in [...]

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Slowly getting up to speed again tonight, after a couple days of unwanted break – flu -

Book Review : Beyond Code – Jan van Ryswyk
‘ It was a quite enjoyable book that focuses on how to distinguish yourself as a software developer ‘
The Old School Manifesto – Bill Miller
Bill basically states that everything [...]

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Sessions from PDC2008 now available! – Brian di Croce
For those who missed PDC
There’s nothing worse… – Jeremy D. Miller
‘ Leaving work without solving the issue just leaves a very sour taste in my mouth ‘
We’ve all gone through such things, haven’t we?
Decoupling Your Classes – Mike Hall
Mike decouples his all too coupled classes, throwing in [...]

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Train consulting clients to monitor their own systems – Susan Harkins
‘ You can’t possibly keep tabs on all the PCs in your consultancy network, so train users to monitor systems themselves ‘
KaizenConf, MVC, and Internal DSLs, OH MY! – Chad Myers
Unity Application Block and Decorator Pattern – David Hayden
Donut Caching in ASP.NET MVC – Phil [...]

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