Arjan’s World

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 rules in .NET applications and WCF services – Matt Milner
  • Asynchronous JavaScript Testing with QUnit – Chad Myers
  • Using Twitter for Distributed Fundraising – Mike Gunderloy
    Another possible use for Twitter
  • .NET Zone’s Top 10 Articles of 2008 – Alvin Ashcraft
  • Goodbye PDA, It’s Been Nice Knowing Ya – Bil Simser
    ‘ So goodbye digital input, it’s been nice. Hand writing is back for me and it’s here to stay. Maybe give it a try yourself? ‘
  • End of the Year Musings – Dana Coffey
    Lot’s of folks having their musings these days. But if you learned as much as Dana did this year, both technically and on the personal side, you must have had a wonderful and exciting year, just like she did!
  • Microsoft Cloud Data Options – Scott Watermasysk
  • new Repository<T>().DoMagic() – Karl Seguin
    ‘ (…) larger projects can really benefit from a broker that specifically handles the back and forth between the two layers. With repositories your domain objects aren’t burdened with infrastructure details and can therefore better focus on domain-specific behavior ‘
  • Toward a New Vision of Productivity, Part 1: Transformation – Dustin Wax
    Today’s dose of inspiration
  • How to Stop Being an Over-Thinker – Craig Harper
    and even more inspiration
  • An attribute based approach to business object validation – Malisa Ncube
  • The importance of being proactive in this economy – Susan Harkins
    ‘ If you support a number of smaller companies instead of a few larger ones, you might find yourself squashed in the predicted economic crunch. Prepare now by making your IT centers as efficient as possible ‘
  • AOP and PostSharp – Soon Hui
  • Understanding the MVC pattern – Jan Seidl
  • Why You Get Nothing Done When You Have So Much Free Time – Steve Rowe
    ‘ The same applies to work too. Give someone a long time to get a project done and it will still come in late. Give them a short time and it will be done earlier ‘
  • Piecemeal Expression evaluation – Jimmy Bogard
    ‘ It seems that most of the time dealing with expressions, I never care about ever actually evaluating the expression for any reason ‘
  • A Nice Overview of an Agile approach to projects – Glen Alleman
  • Super Mario in JavaScript (no kidding) – Tim STall
    Just like Tim says: wow
  • Cleaning Up Your C# Closet, Making Messy C# Code More Readable – Keith Elder
    ‘ Developers reading your code rarely are worried about the “how”, they need to know the “what” so they can figure out where to put their code. This concept is earth shatteringly simple (…) ‘
  • If you could meet one person… – Seth Godin
    ‘ People in charge can rarely help you, because they are rarely (truly) in charge. Billionaires can’t help you, either, because they have their defense force fields on full strength during meetings like this ‘
  • Business Intelligence is More Than Just a Fancy Graph – Chris Woodill
  • Load Balancing Header Issue – Chris Eargle
    O, those pesky webservices!
  • Will This Economy Finally Push the Toyota Way Into Software Development? – Jeff Widman
  • When Being Agile Kills the Project – Mohammad Azam
    ‘ The books will always teach you that how you can produce great applications when following agile principles. It will never explain the hidden corners of application disaster ‘
  • Better C# Design Contracts in Lokad Shared Libraries – Journal – Rinat Abdullin
  • Are Code Generators Useful? – Abhijit Nadgouda
    ‘ In fact, I got frustrated on a couple of occasions while using them. If I ever use a code generator, it will be project specific, or if I end up write one ‘
  • A Signature Cadence – Rands In Repose
  • DDD: Specifications, Language, and Locality – Greg Young
    ‘ Rule of Thumb: Avoid the use of attributes on entities that are constraints. Prefer to use a specification as it makes the intent to constrain explicit ‘
  • Famous Sed One-Liners Explained, Part II – Peteris Krumins
    Just to keep my Windows haters LINUX nerds scripting language followers happy
  • Functional Programming Unit Testing – Part 4 – Matthew Podwysocki
  • Entity validation and LINQ: Using yield return to optimize IsValid over a list of broken rules – Richard Dingwall
  • Ship It Often vs. TDD – Patrick Smacchia
    ‘ Ayende recently answered the question what the bare minimum aspects of Agile project would be? His opinion is: Ship it Often ‘
  • Using NetBeans – Tomas Restrepo
  • Things that make me smile #46 – The Zen of Sarcasm – Rajesh Setty
    ‘ 01. Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for
    I may not follow. Do not walk beside me either. Just pretty much leave me
    alone ‘
  • A Police Officer Uses The No Asshole Rule as a Weapon Against His Boss – Bob Sutton
    Good story, putting the police force and people in it in a more human picture than normally