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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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?” [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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