Arjan’s World

Somehow you all added a lot of content to the web today. No wonder Seth Godin concludes the internet is almost full

• Communicating your innovation goals – Jeffrey Phillips
  ‘ Innovation, as we all know, is risky and creates change, hopefully for the better, in most organizations ‘
• Working With ASP.Net MVC Part 2 – The Model And The Repository Pattern – Justin
• Talk: JavaScript – Beyond the Curly Braces – Sergio Pereira
  ‘ One of the greatest problems with JavaScript is its superficial syntax resemblance of C-style languages. We call it the curse of the curly braces ‘
• Understanding Persistence in Windows Workflow Foundation – Kirk Evans
  ‘ This post will show how to use the DelayActivity in Windows Workflow Foundation 3.0 to scale an application out to multiple processes ‘
• Native Client: Been There Done That – Dave
  ‘ The ONLY reason I can see this succeeding is if Google manages to re-invent .NET in such a way that it actually works across all browsers and platforms like Java does ‘
  Tough job
• Changing Terms from Mocking Framework to Isolation Framework – Derik Whittaker
• Coding styles leads to (or prevents) certain classes of bugs – the Kua
• New in Labs: Tasks – Jonathan Terleski
  Another extension of GMail
• Attributes are lousy decorators – Jimmy Bogard
  ‘ Attributes allow developers to provide a mechanism to add metadata to types, assemblies, type members, method parameters, and just about anything else under the sun ‘ But…
• SubSonic Linq Support – Help Me – Rob Conery
  Rob needs you! ‘ I want to make sure our next release has as much possible goodness in terms of support as possible, and to that end I would love to hear from you (and even better, recruit you!) ‘
• Reading “Revolutionary Road” – Charles Petzold
  ‘ I’ve been wanting to read Richard Yates’ novel Revolutionary Road (1961) ever since April 9, 2000, when I read an essay by Richard Ford about it in the New York Times Book Review ‘
• WCF Test Harness: Creating a Stub Service – Jeffrey Chilberto
• You need a “Reality Check” – Rajesh Setty
  ‘ Reality Check is a like a collection that can easily be titled as “Best of Guy Kawasaki” over the years ‘
• Real Options in the Real World – Pascal Van Cauwenberghe
  ‘ Real Options is a tool to optimize decisions: it helps us to consider and manage more possibilities and gives us more time to gather information, so that our decisions are better informed ‘
• S#arp core overview – Luis Abreu
  ‘ According to the homepage, this framework “is a solid architectural foundation for rapidly building maintainable web applications leveraging the ASP.NET MVC framework with NHibernate” ‘
  Have a spare hour? Spend some time with this DDD oriented framework
• Tool List 2008 – Chris Brandsma
• Automate Daily Tasks with PowerShell – Alex Mueller
  ‘ Lately, I have been applying DRY outside of my IDE, more specifically, with my build environments and daily developer tasks ‘
  note-to-self: do this more yourself!
• Real Agile Teams Can Flock – Jurgen Appelo
  ‘ Flocking behavior is often mentioned as an example of how a system can show complex behavior with only a few simple rules. However, I think the term rules here is not correct, or at least imprecise ‘
• NHProfiler – An Early Look – Tim Barcz
  ‘ It’s been an honor to be part of the team that is putting NHProfiler through its paces. While NHProfiler is still in private beta it is very impressive and I want to let you peek inside ‘
• 17 Tips for Getting Through a Business Downturn – Raj Dash
• Re-evaluating software architecture – Simon Brown
• The Problem With “Release Early, Release Often” – Travis Illig
  ‘ What happens if the product isn’t like that, though? What if it’s a framework component like a logging library? ‘
• IFileSystem Dependency Inversion Part 1 – Steve Smith
  ‘ In the course of making my software more testable, I’ve attempted to eliminate a dependency on the file system (in this case, via System.IO) by creating an interface, IFileSystem ‘
• Kanban in Software Development. Part 1: Introducing Kanban Boards and Pipelines – Derick Bailey
  ‘ In the world of Scrum, XP and other forms of Agile software development, many teams use visual control systems to outline the various steps that software goes through during development ‘. New series, there is already a part 2
• Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD): an Overview – Elisabeth Hendrickson
  ‘ (…) a practice in which the whole team collaboratively discusses acceptance criteria, with examples, and then distills them into a set of concrete acceptance tests before development begins ‘
• Most Popular Google Subdomains -Amit Agarwal
• Vim Plugins You Should Know About, Part I: surround.vim – Peteris Krumins
  for all you geeks with a unix heart (if any). Which raises the question: is Vim – or unix for that matter – Alt.NET?
• ASP.NET MVC Northwind Demo Using the Spark View Engine – Phil Haack
• To Everything There Is A Season – Bil Simser
• Horn Project: Removing OSS Cross-Dependency Pains – Steve Bohlen
  ‘ The on-going challenge: Getting Rhinos to Successfully (N)Hibernate in the Castle ‘
• The software simpleton: The twat of DDD – Increasing Complexity in the heart of software
  ‘ All this and we still have not talked about 1 screen shot or 1 UI element. You are a true DDD ninja and should be very proud ‘
  via Twitter / someone (lost track who)
• How to Use DotNetKicks to Delete Your Competition – Timm Martin
  ‘ If you are serious about getting your blog on social news sites, you need a bunch of fake accounts to pump up your ratings and attack your enemies ‘ Whoa. Not everybody has the same level of ethics. Am I naive, or just ethical, that I never even considered doing something like this. If sites like DNK want to remain being taken serious, they should at least have an honest modding/reporting system. This takes time, but without it you let unscrupulous folks destroy your credibility
• Pimp My Debugger – DebuggerDisplay Attribute – Khalid Abuhakmeh
• Implementing a Red-Black Tree in C# – Jack Altiere
• .NET Community Q&A with Phil Haack – Alvin Ashcraft
• Oxite – Lab – MIX Online
  Microsofts’ new blogging engine based on ASP.NET MVC. Open source!
• Excel Financial functions for .NET, implemented with F# – Greg Duncan
• TEA Encryption/Decryption Made Simple – Michael Mogensen
  ‘ Easy to use crypto class that uses TEA, XTEA and XXTEA standards ‘
• Gmail Labs’ New Task Manager Can Add Email to Your To-Do List – Gina Trapani
• Strongly typed action links in ASP.NET MVC – Mogens Heller Grabe
  ‘ Once upon a time (back before preview 5 of ASP.NET MVC), you could link to controller actions in a strongly typed manner, like so ‘
• Is Linq to SQL Dead? Yes, but.… – Stephen Forte
  ‘ Ever since the release of the Entity Framework and the Linq to SQL team’s move to the ADO.NET team we have been hearing about Linq to SQL being dead ‘
  via Alvin