Arjan’s World

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 ‘
• TFS Warehouse Work Item Tracking Compensating Records – Nick Ericson
• Kinesis Advantage Review #1, or “How to relearn to tysppe” – Kyle Baley
• Meet EMo – Mendelt Siebenga
  ‘ World, please meet EMo. EMo is a small component to make unit-testing events in .Net languages easier to write and easier to read ‘
• Building a Continuous Integration Build Server – David Cumps
  ‘ We’ll have a look at how to build a Continuous Integration Build Server from scratch ‘
• Delay All Your Decisions – Casey Charlton
• jQuery Link Repository – CodeZest
• Visual Studio Eats Exceptions – Chris Eargle
  ‘ The managed package framework for Visual Studio eats exceptions. I discovered this while building my own editor ‘
• It’s not magic! – Eric Lippert
• Performance implications of cross-domain calls for unit tests – Vagif Abilov
• Reassessing What the Debugger Is For – Mark Needham
• ReSharper 4.5 – Red Bull for VS – Jean-Paul Boodhoo
  ‘ If you happen to be one of the many developers who are still coding up a storm in a Vanilla visual studio installation. This post is for you ‘
• The Escape from Developer Hell – Phil Factor
  Another great story from DBA land
• What is .NET RIA Services? – Brad Abrams
  Four days since the latest linkblog and already new bits flowing out of Redmond. And ASP.NET MVC 1.0, and Silverlight 3 beta
• What Is the Mission of Your Project? – Jurgen Appelo
  ‘ Software projects are like a military operation. As a commander (manager) you have to take care of the movements of your troops, or else your soldiers will be crawling all over the place ‘
• When It Comes To Your Professional Life – Everything Is Personal – Rajiv Popat
  ‘ ‘Don’t take it personally’, seems to be the management advice we seem to be giving our young and budding managers, as if it were some management mantra of success we are whispering down down their ears ‘
• Specialization in Recruiting in Hard Times – Scott Bellware
  ‘ When this economic slump is over, I’d like to work with recruiters who have not only survived the downturn, but who have thrived ‘
• MSDN Magazine Series: From Web Dev to RIA Dev – James Kovacs
  ‘ When the economy is good, it is hard enough to convince your boss to re-build an application from scratch. When the economy is bad, it is bloody near impossible ‘
  With this in mind, James explains that we need to brace ourselves and start getting used to working in legacy code. It’s value is increasing with the economic down times!