Arjan’s World

Oops, mixed up the days, it’s 16th, not 15th

• Cloud Services 101 with Aaron Skonnard – Aaron Skonnard
• Real World Apps in Days not Weeks – Scott Hanselman
  Today, Scoot wants to win you for ADO.NET Data Services, ‘ if what it does fits your scenario, you can get a metric ass-load of work done in a short period of time ‘
• “Micro Architectures” – Simon Guest
• Using the Build Session in StructureMap – Jeremy D. Miller
• Why Your Senior Managers Like Serial Lifecycles – Johanna Rothman
• DDD: The Generic Repository – Greg Young
• Why Newton was agile and the Titanic was not – Sander Hoogendoorn
  ‘ (…) 2009 will not only be known as the year the financial crisis hits in hard, it will also be known as the year everything turned agile ‘
• Ignoring Favicon.ico in ASP.Net MVC – Scott Watermasysk
• 5 simple ways to improve links – Janko Jovanovic
• Logging trapped exceptions with ASP.NET health monitoring – Keith Brown
• Hire the Best – Architecture – Keyvan Nayyeri
  Next installment of Keyvan’s series on the ‘ employment of the best architects and developers ‘
• Stack Overflow reputation and being a micro-celebrity – Jon Skeet
• Accessing the global namespace – Luis Abreu
  ‘ what is that global:: thing over there? ‘
• Pex, QuickGraph, MbUnit, Reflector Addins – Named Formats Pex Testimonium – Peli de Halleux
• There’s a plane in the Hudson… – Janis Krums
  So Twitter can bring you in “Good Morning America” these days. Cool stuff. Always have your camera with you
• Hard Lessons Learned from ClickOnce – Jeremy Jarrell
  Good post on the things that can bite you when implementing ClickOnce without proper knowledge on the technology behind it
• An Illustrated Guide to Git on Windows
  Now looking for someone to convince me of the use of distributed VCS above other systems. It still looks a little overkill – or just too complicated – to this simple guy (please can someone explain “Unstage Line From Commit” to me?)
  via Twitter
• Creating Hierarchical Data Structure Mashups – Michael M. David
  ‘ You can use SQL to connect or “mash-up” hierarchical structures, joining them at or below the root to create larger queryable hierarchical structures ‘
• We’re Not Always Superheroes – Chris Brogan
  ‘ I say sorry for something every single day. Sometimes, it’s something small. Other times, it’s something bigger. What about you? ‘
• More Adults Than Ever on Social Networks – Sarah Perez
  But, as the article concludes, most folks use social networks to just socialize, not for professional purposes. It will be interesting to see if we can somehow bridge this gap, and really make social networking take off in the business
• 45+ New jQuery Techniques For Good User Experience – Smashing Magazine
  Funny how this JavaScript framework is all the rage these days, both outside and (with Microsoft’s adoption of it) inside the Microsoft community
• Estimates degrade over time – Patrick Kua
  ‘ Most people fail to understand that estimates have a half life, and often a very short one. Even results produced with agile estimation techniques, have an expiry date that is often ignored ‘
  Nice observation. I gave an estimate many months ago, now having a hard time explaining this same thing
• What’s Your Language This Year? – Jared Richardson
  Jared’s language is Erlang. Mine…. ehh, still thinking. DSL, does that count as a language?
• Book review: Clean Code – Luis Abreu
• Swedish geeks gather for 24 hours to build 52 services – Ernst-Jan Pfauth
  There’s a vibe going around in the dark north, even in these times of crisis