Arjan’s World

Software development is like golf … – Bernie Thompson ‘ (…) in that your chosen path to the pin is a primary problem ‘ Unity Interception and Custom ICallHandler – Order Property and Firing of Handlers – David Hayden I Don’t Really See The Problem With NHibernate’s XML Mapping Files – Davy Brion Agile Doesn’t [...]

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Limiting Code Comments Increases Maintainability : Jeffrey Palermo Using FluentNhibernate to map composite keys for a table – Derik Whittaker Free sample chapter for Concurrent Programming on Windows – Joe Duffy Recommended reading for C# starters – Mark Blomsma Moving all my development to the Mac – Simone Chiaretta The Aggressive Class vs The Laid [...]

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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 [...]

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Being always late to the party, I thought I’d chime in with my Top-10 list of things to investigate for 2009 (nooo, not another Top-X list, we hates them). After seeing dozen of lists, I finally was inspired by Russell Ball’s list. It bears some resemblance to my own list, and his items that are [...]

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Coding Dojo #6: Web Driver – Mark Needham Why learning CSS is important in a (web) development world – Peter Eysermans What About Accountability? – Mike Cottmeyer ‘ I am not going to tell the team what to do or how to do it, but they need to be able to deliver what they say [...]

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Happy 3rd Birthday, jQuery – Marshall Kirkpatrick If They Are Genuinely Defining Your Work Culture, You Probably Don’t Even Know It – Rajiv Popat Love the M.I.B. analogy! Four wireless security tips to share with clients – Susan Harkins How Hard Could It Be?: Thanks or No Thanks – Joel Spolsky ‘ A young employee [...]

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10 Useful Web Application Interface Techniques – Smashing Magazine Signs of a GOOD Manager / Team Lead – Adam Goucher referal to a great post about leadership Cargo-cult commenting – Richard Dingwall Fluent NHibernate’s AutoPersistenceModel – Chris Missal Typemock Isolator Has a New VB.NET Friendly API – Travis Illig Running before you can walk – [...]

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My First Agile Project: The Last Mile – Matt Grommes Developers Estimate NOT Managers – Mohammad Azam Motivation Techniques – J.D. Meier Leadership 101: Want Respect? Give Respect – Jim Holmes ‘ Fear isn’t respect. Respect isn’t mandated. Fail to treat others with respect and you’ll never get it yourself. Give respect out freely and [...]

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Size does matter – Karlagius Unity: an IoC Container for Silverlight – Shawn Wildermuth An argument for moving ASP.NET MVC controllers to a separate assembly – Billy McCafferty Some Serious Misunderstandings About Earned Value (update) – Glen Alleman Don’t require a big commitment from IT consulting clients – Chip Camden Why should you care about [...]

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Seven Principles of Lean Software Development – Eliminate Waste – Pbielicki Quick: What is wrong with this picture? – Security Monkey ‘ If you ever need to convince someone that Anti-Virus 2009 is efficient at socially engineering the user – well, here it is ‘ Horrible grotty hack: returning an anonymous type instance – Jon [...]

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