Arjan’s World

Busy week. Editions are a bit shorter than normal

• Documentation vs. Covering Thy Arse – Mitch Denny
  ‘ (…) where I draw the line is documentation whose sole job isn’t to communicate but rather to ensure that a decision can’t be pinned on you ‘ Right on. CYA documentation is bad, mkay?
• CarTrackr on Windows Azure – Part 2 – Cloud-enabling CarTrackr – Maarten Balliauw
• Debugging UI – Aaron Lerch
  ‘ I’ve talked before about System.Threading.SynchronizationContext, as well as BeginInvoke/InvokedRequired/IsHandleCreated. In a multi-threaded Windows Forms application they can easily be mis-used, introducing difficult to find bugs ‘
• Query Data with Parallel LINQ – Charlie Calvert
• A Tale of Hunting Down an Elusive Bug – Soon Hui
• Kanban in Software Development. Part 2.5: A Variation on Queues – Pipelines for WIP and Done – Derick Bailey
• Advanced CSharp – unsafe mode – Dave
• .NET Reflector update – Bart Read
• Redirect Routes and other Fun With Routing And Lambdas – Phil Haack
• Introducing the ASP.NET MVC (Part 1) – The Model-View-Controller Pattern – Nick Berardi
• ASP.NET Security Goodness – Dominick Baier
  ‘ A bunch of (ASP.NET) security tools got released over the weekend – highly recommended! ‘
• Curing Cancer, Preventing Global Warming, and Achieving World Peace by Migrating from VSS to SVN – Russell Ball
• Environment matters a lot – Mark Needham
  ‘ In my current environment if someone shows you an idea they will most likely point out some further reading areas for you to investigate and will be happy to answer any questions you have ‘ You can count yourself lucky in such an environment. Cherish it
• How my team does agile – Tom Hollander
  ‘ I’m very happy to say that this is the most passionate, energetic and productive team I’ve ever worked with (…)’
• Functional Programming Unit Testing – Part 3 – Matthew Podwysocki
• How to use Linq Expressions to Find Out Variable Name in .NET? – Rinat Abdullin
• Oxite – Oh Dear Lord Why?! – Karl Seguin
• Silverlight causing job losses – Craig Bailey