Arjan’s World

Last linkblog for 2008 obviously. Everyone a happy new year and best wishes!

Are Programmers Spoiled? – Justin Etheredge
‘ when it really comes down to it, do I know any developers who are very successful and don’t pour their heart and soul into their work ‘
Productivity: It Comes from Software Design Rather than Software Tools – [...]

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And so the year is slowly but steadily coming to an end. Fire crackers to be heard on the streets here the whole day. Will be much much worse tomorrow
*** jQuery Sparklines
this came just in via Twitter / / Elijah Manor. Very cool. Just check out the “mouse speed” (the first example) and you [...]

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Corporate IT Departments Trends for 2009 – Chris Woodill
‘ Entrepreneurs focus on delivering high value services on a shoe-string budget – this is what is required in an economic down turn ‘
2009 is gonna be a great time for the entrepreneurial types among us, according to Chris. Tend to agree here. These times of crisis [...]

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A little less than two months ago, Microsoft offered to put an introductory article on Alt.NET in their Dutch .NET Magazine. This seemed like a good way to get a message out to the big Dutch .NET development community that there is more to development life than only MSDN (not belittling MSDN here, though). In [...]

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Learning Entity Framework – Mike Borozdin
book review
*** Thinking only of the Junior Developer – Chris Brandsma
Great one from Chris, we do need to and get in the trenches and stop feeling so elitist about our code. If we’re only keeping other colleagues at a distance, how will they ever be able to pick up our [...]

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C# lambdas: How much context should you need? – Mark Needham
.NET – Look Ma! No Classes – Creating Generic List(T) collection of Anonymous Types and calling Extension Methods – Suprotim Agarwal
Advantages of a 3rd party diff/compare tool – Jason Young
Using JsonResult in ASP.NET MVC AJAX – Keyvan Nayyeri
One less diacritical mark to annoy me – [...]

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I’m Sorry Robert, But It’s Time For A Friendfeed Intervention – Michael Arrington
2500 hrs a year on Twitter and FriendFeed is *a lot*, even for a Scoble. One wonders how a human being can stay sane spending such insane amounts behind a computer…should our new year’s resolution be to spend more time offline maybe?
Top 100 [...]

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Slowly but steady getting ourselves to year end, and more time with family and relatives

Return an empty IEnumerable<T> from a yield iterator – David Kean
‘ There are actually two ways of doing this. Both, admittedly, are not the most intuitive things in C# ‘
Free Tool For Managed and Unmanaged Deadlock Detection – Shahar Y
Using WF [...]

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Lifecycle Variables – Mike Cottmeyer
Decentralization is Freedom – Social Media Principle #4 – Jim Benson
‘ Decentralized power structures spur creativity, growth, and innovation ‘
Lazy Loading Considered Harmful – Scott Bellware
Since 1968, all essays ending “…considered harmful” should at least be considered. This one should definitely be read ‘ Lazy loading is a common feature in [...]

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*** Getting value out of your unit tests – Jimmy Bogard
‘ My first year or so of doing TDD produced exactly that, a mess. No insight into the what or why of my system’s behavior, but merely a retrospective look on what each individual class did ‘
jTemplates with jQuery, AJAX and Json – [...]

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