Arjan’s World

Why syntax is becoming less painful – Tim Stall
I’ve Concluded That You Guys Don’t Think I’m an Idiot – A Reflection on the Sexes and the Field – Sara Chipps
2008: A Developer’s Retrospective – Meera Subbarao
Chief Engineer – Scott Bellware
‘ We have a gaping human resource hole in our software product development organizations through [...]

Read Full Post »

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 [...]

Read Full Post »

Passing parameters in public signatures – Pieter Gheysens
Making frameworks container-aware – Jimmy Bogard
Track your car expenses in the cloud! CarTrackr on Windows Azure – Part 1 – Introduction- Maarten Balliauw
Estimation Is Not For Accountability (It’s For Visibility) – Max Pool
Case insensitive string comparisons with LINQ Dynamic Query – Aaron Lerch
CodeProject: A tool for making [...]

Read Full Post »

Challenges in Adopting Scrum – Vikas Hazrati
‘ Introducing a new software development methodology has its own set of challenges which might range from ‘reluctance to change’ to ‘faulty adoption techniques’ thus resulting in a failure ‘
Holy @#$% Generics Are Fun! – Robert Johnson
Bogus tips for IT Managers – Craig Bailey
Craig always has a good laugh [...]

Read Full Post »

(Sorry, last 11 links were removed, since they were inadvertently put in today’s edition, after already mentioned yesterday)
From where do you all get so much inspiration this week, is this the big burst before the holidays?
Is middleware in your consulting future? – Susan Harkins
‘ Need applications to talk and share data? You can learn [...]

Read Full Post »

Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects – Glen Alleman
8 Ways to Recession-Proof Your Programming Career – Rob Walling
Actively pursuing a couple of them already, blogging being one of them. Read the tips and spend some time digesting them. Don’t wait, act!
The Feedburner to Google Domain Transition Foul Up – Phil Haack
The Case for an [...]

Read Full Post »

SubSonic 3: Alpha Is Ready – Rob Conery
JP’s Daily Dose Of Inspiration – #4 – Jean-Paul Boodhoo
cool story!
Real life: Automation and teaching your kids – Tim Stall
On the resemblance between automation and your kids
IT Industry Revolutionised By Labour Saving Device – Leon Bambrick
‘ The ’self-clicking’ “next” button is set to revolutionize how computer users [...]

Read Full Post »

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 [...]

Read Full Post »

How to debug crashes and hangs – Kirill Osenkov
Cool, love those reproducible bugs that let VS crash… ‘ Viacheslav Ivanov reported an interesting crashing bug in our language service recently. Save all your work and then paste this code in a C# Console Application and change ‘object’ to ‘int’ ‘
Integrating User Interface & Domain Specific [...]

Read Full Post »

How to Get the Right People on Your Team – Jason Womack
‘ Here’s how to develop your own peer-to-peer coaching network ‘ (read on…)
Twitter as a learning tool – Mark Needham
One of the many things Twitter can be useful for… ‘ Frequent conversations about REST and DDD between serialseb and colinjack. I’ve not used REST [...]

Read Full Post »