Arjan’s World

Querying NHibernate user type with HQL or criteria – Alkampfer Evolving code over time – Peter Ritchie ‘ Given economics, time constraints, resource limitations, etc.; you can’t write all the functionality for a given solution for a single release ‘ Book Plug: Essential LINQ – Brad Abrams Breaking: Internet Explorer 8.1 Eagle Eyes Leaked – [...]

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You Decide How You Communicate: Rules Of Engagement – Bas de Baar Just like ants… ‘ humans also have “rules” about how we do things “around here”. It is not hardwired however ‘ Knowing when your website is attacked – Phil Factor Unable to launch the ASP.NET Development Server because port ‘n’ is in use [...]

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Job Satisfaction, And Making The World A Better Place – Casey Charlton ‘ You know what we achieve with all our wonderful software patterns and practices? Not a lot on the whole ‘ Pair Programming: From a Lean angle – Mark Needham Working with the Common Feed Store in Windows – Kirk Evans Experimenting With [...]

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Managing The Firehose: Controlling RSS Through Pipes – Rob Hilton Flickr Co-founder Unveils Her New Startup: Hunch – Phil Glockner OK people, another startup. It is still possible in these times to start something new. Don’t you just sit back on the couch waiting for the crisis to blow away. Cause if you do, chances [...]

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Implementing Audit Trail using Entity Framework Part -1 – Morshed Anwar Big Headaches for MYSQL users – Ethan Vizitei ‘ Here’s something I didn’t know, but which hopefully will help someone else out in the future: DON’T USE NESTED SUBQUERIES! ‘ My Domain is my Castle – Michael Stal ‘ (…) whenever you are being [...]

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Retrospective Antipatterns – Ilja Preuss Debugging speed of Gallio fixtures – reloaded – Andre Loker RIA The Death of Server Page Development – Scott Nichols ‘ Silverlight 3 is an RIA (rich internet application) platform product and as such means that it has certain limitations by design, mainly the browser security sandbox ‘ 10 Ways [...]

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The MCV framework: view extensions – Luis Abreu Making Web Applications Look Like Desktop Applications Using Chrome – Rhonda Tipton Nice trick Techies – 17 ways You Undermine Your Own Career – Raven Young CCD Red Degree Principle – Keep it simple, Stupid (KISS) – Michael Minutillo A plea for less prima donna’s… in the [...]

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What to do when your client doesn’t pay – Chip Camden ‘ (…) tips on how to get your client to pay you on their own volition, continue to be your client, and pay you on time in the future ‘ I always thought you should beat them up, but apparently there are better ways [...]

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The myth of big salaries (it’s all marketing) – Seth Godin ‘ After a million dollars or so in salary, the absolute amount that a person is paid has no real impact on their life ‘ Good post, although I’d say that a million is already *a lot* Core ASP.NET – DZone Refcardz – Holger [...]

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After being in sick bay for a couple days, I am finally getting back on my feet again. Slowly… Extension methods: If you have a shiny new hammer – Andre Loker ‘ (…) every problem looks like a nail they say. Although C# 3.0 extension methods are not that new anymore, this saying still applies [...]

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