Arjan’s World

Unity and AOP in enterprise library – Alkampfer
PowerShell Sessions – Tomas Restrepo
Nice tip: store all PowerShell sessions…by using a PowerShell script of course!
Presentation: Introduction to Spring.Net – Benny Michielsen
Field level security performance with Rhino Security – Bart Merchtem
“This site may harm your computer” on every search result?!?! – Official Google Blog
Ah, now I know why [...]

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Interview with an Adware Developer – Bruce Schneier
‘ Fascinating ‘
A Upcoming Pandemic of Domain Anaemia – Peter Ritchie
‘ This anti-pattern basically says domain entities, chronically, have little or no behaviour (remember, object-oriented design is about attributes and behaviour) ‘
A Lesson in DRY Learned with jQuery – Chris Missal
Programming is hard – Jon Skeet
My Current .Net [...]

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The Exclusionary Rule and Security – Bruce Schneier
50 Useful Design Tools For Beautiful Web Typography – Noura Yehia
As a noob when it comes to webdesign I’m always strangely attracted to posts like these, full of weird and cool looking fonts and layouts
.NET Fireside Chats – Brad Abrams and Krzysztof Cwalina – Alvin Ashcraft
Object oriented requirements [...]

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We don’t need to define good design – J. B. Rainsberger
We don’t need to define good design
ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate Now Available – Scott Guthrie
Takeaways from Presenting Data and Information (Edward Tufte) – Russell Wilson
The 10 Second Visual Studio Makeover – Russell Ball
Why You Should Celebrate Your Mistakes – Leo Babauta
Mistakes are good when [...]

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My First Agile Project: Go-Live – The Final Frontier – Matt Grommes
Matt is done with his big and insightful “first agile project” series
Measure Agile Productivity in $ – Jon Arild Tørresdal
Changing Patterns of Thought for Defining and Expanding Done – Travis Birch
Why relationships are key to IT consulting success – Chip Camden
‘ If you land [...]

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Permanent bug fixes – Ethan Vizitei
Ethan reminds us of something we all to easily forget in our quest to resolve a bug ASAP: ‘ make sure it doesn’t happen again ‘
Convention over Configuration in MSDN Magazine – Jeremy D. Miller
8 Inspiring Stories Of ASCII Art – Smashing Magazine
‘ (…) we’ll stroll through the past and [...]

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Lots of leadership and learning stuff today

Management vs Leadership – Derick Bailey
On Teaching, Learning, and Being Honest With Ourselves – Scott C Reynolds
Leadership 101: Build Broad Shoulders – Jim Holmes
‘ If I didn’t do my job right, the radar wouldn’t be available to find the bad guys, things might explode, and good guys could die [...]

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The Data Management Body of Knowledge (DMBOK) – Craig Brown
‘ another BOK to add to the list! ‘
Five strategies for handling stubborn clients – Chip Camden
‘ When a client asks you to implement a project’s solution that isn’t up to your standards, what do you do? ‘
Presentation: Textual DSLs Made Simple – Abel Avram
Presentation that [...]

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DDD: Specification or Query Object – Greg Young
‘ The first and largest problem that one will run into when dealing with this type of API is that the Repository is necessarily a leaky abstraction ‘
Enterprise Library Logging 101 – David Starr
‘ This article demonstrates the absolute minimum effort necessary to begin logging messages from within [...]

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Papers: Readings in Distributed Systems – Todd Hoff
There are plenty of niches left – Chris Spagnuolo
‘ You think there are no niches left for you. Well, maybe you’re just not thinking hard enough. There is a niche for everything. Even for you’re world ‘
You’re not a real dev unless you’ve read this book… [timstall.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com]
‘ I [...]

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