Arjan’s World

The Curious Case of Software Quality – Keyvan Nayyeri
‘ I can simply conclude that with knowledge and knowing the principles you don’t miss anything, but without them you’re walking on a dead end! ‘
Fluent NHibernate binary drops – Chad Myers
Coding: Assertions in constructors – Mark Needham
‘ I suppose this is a limitation of the Java/C# [...]

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Managing Humans – Steve Rowe
Book review; one of the coolest and insightful books on management I’ve read myself in the last couple years
Getting Started with Oslo – Introducing “M” – Bart de Smet
Why startup times of applications MATTER – Oren Eini
‘ There is one type of user that pays the startup cost of the system [...]

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Why You Should Always Validate Your Input – Jim Holmes
‘ Malicious folks are out there. They want to hurt your software ‘
Once again, a strong warning
Learning To Code with the Azure SDK – Show Me The Code – Steve Smith
How to lose traction on a personal software project – Richard Dingwall
‘ So you’ve started writing [...]

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Due Diligence and Code Comments – K. Scott Allen
‘ This is the silly tale of a strange due diligence process I experienced. It happened several years ago but I couldn’t talk about it at the time ‘
Entropy in software – Jimmy Bogard
‘ One of the greatest lessons I had growing up was from my music [...]

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Mocks vs. Stubs – James Kovacs
Why is User Experience Design important – Andries van der Meulen
Lazy loading using Ninject – Maurice de Beijer
Always Question the Source (aka “Don’t Lock on Type Objects”) – OJ Reeves
You might be a great hacker if you… – JD Conley
‘ have ever gone to visit a friend and proceeded to [...]

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The Real Reason You Didn’t Learn Jack Sh*t In College – Max Pool
I have been going through a lot of self reflection as of late, and as you can imagine there are a number of things that haunt my current psyche.
JavaScript, 5 ways to call a function – Sergio Pereira
.NET Web Services Fail on Unicode [...]

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Recently, a slew of Japanese is coming our way from the factories of Toyota, cumulating in this big trend called Lean (as in “first there was Waterfall, then Iterative/Incremental, then Agile, and now we have Lean”). Now this is all fine and good, but every time Dave Laribee or Scott Bellware put some of those [...]

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CCD Red Degree Practice – Version Control – Michael Minutillo
A story directly from Copy/Paste hell
I don’t believe in signing up to stories for an iteration – Sarah Taraporewalla
.Net Framework/OS Map – Greg Duncan
‘ Helps answer the question, “What version of the .Net Framework can be installed on what Windows OS version?” ‘
EventHandler Extension Method – [...]

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A few pointers for stand-up tokens – Jason Yip
Using the Dependency Injection Pattern and Unity Containers with Service Locator – Chris Aloia
Immutable Data Structures in C# and F# – Tomas Petricek
Iteration Length – Adrian Wible
Reducing Empowerment 101 – Jason McDonald
‘ All companies should strive to empower their employees. This simply means that all employees should [...]

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Fear and panic – Craig Brown
‘ (…) people just don’t care. They snap back to their previous practices like a tightly wound rubber band ‘
But, introduce fear as a motivator? Don’t really see how that would work
Dumb Project Management Questions – Glen Alleman
‘ If a project management method cannot be connected to these principles in [...]

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