Arjan’s World

With kudos to Davy for pointing out that I was just rehashing March 16 links, this time the real links for today, and not old news from yesterday. Using Oblique Strategies for Difficult Refactoring – Anders Norås A No Bull- #$%! Performance Review Process – Dan McCarthy Technical debt – Luis Abreu ‘ (…) in [...]

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So, What the Heck is a Service Anyway? – David S. Linthicum ‘ Here’s a better question: What is a service, and how does it differ from information? ‘ Insights On The Evolution Of A PM – Raven Young Unicode output to the Windows console – Swuk ‘ printing wide Unicode strings to the Windows [...]

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So, What the Heck is a Service Anyway? – David S. Linthicum ‘ Here’s a better question: What is a service, and how does it differ from information? ‘ Insights On The Evolution Of A PM – Raven Young Unicode output to the Windows console – Swuk ‘ printing wide Unicode strings to the Windows [...]

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Quotable Quotes: More On Innovation – Miki Saxon ‘ if you open up the mind, the opportunity to address both profits and social conditions are limitless. It’s a process of innovation ‘ Book Review: ASP.NET 3.5 Unleashed – Jason Haley Bridging the Business and IT Divide – Andy Blumenthal On how to bridge this sometimes [...]

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3 Stereotypical Types of Software Labor – Ethan Vizitei Kirill’s Whitespace Guidelines for C# – Kirill Osenkov Teams are the Building Blocks of Agile Organizations – Mike Cottmeyer ‘ We’ve got to stop thinking about how we are going to resource level across teams… or how to optimize the utilization of individuals within teams ‘ [...]

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Red, Green, Re-factor – Darrel Carver Writing an IronPython Debugger: Refactoring – Harry Pierson Client Rendering Views with Spark and ASP.NET MVC – K. Scott Allen 10 Tips for Working With Clients Remotely: Part 2 – Mindy Wagner OleDb Parameters to access FoxPro Data from .NET – Rick Strahl Encrypting Large Values – John Magnabosco [...]

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DDD: Invariants or Contextual Validation? – Casey Charlton ‘ A lot of the confusion I see around DDD is largely around people jumping right into the deep end without the basic stuff clear first ‘ Beginning Mocking With Moq 3 – Part 2- Justin Etheredge Next part of this clear intro to implementing mocking in [...]

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TF03177: Team Project Creation Failed – Josh Twist ‘ I ran into this problem with TFS recently and it had me stumped. Why could I no longer create projects? ‘ Fair Share Detects Content Plagiarism via RSS Feeds – Amit Agarwal If you don’t like other people to run away with your content Screencast: Dive [...]

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DDD: Bounded Contexts -Mark Needham 20 Reasons to use VSTS 2008 as your Automation Framework – Brent Strange A Few NHibernate Tips – Billy McCafferty How Do I Learn – Jan Van Ryswyck Jan Van Ryswyck 6 CIO Tools for Managing IT Risk – Andy Blumenthal NGEN is Love, if you’re running your .Net applications [...]

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What can Software Designers Learn from Video Games? – Brian Harris ‘ Application developers waste too much of their time playing video games, right? Wrong ‘ .Net Developer Survey – Results – Matt Berseth Team Building your MSI – How to build a Setup Project via Team Build – Greg Duncan ‘ Remember friends don’t [...]

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