Arjan’s World

OK, calling it a week here, and signing off. Going to enjoy the lovely weather, and spending the weekend with the family.
Hope to see you all back on Monday. Have a good one!

• How do you know she’s a witch? – Bil Simser
  ‘ Knowing is half the battle and if you sense you’re on the slippage towards Scrummerfall (or are already knee deep in it) it’s time to sink or swim ‘
  Yes, it’s that kind of post. Bil calls on that greatest methodology of all “Common Sense”
• Learn Functional Programming – Ben Griswold
• If your Childhood Sucked – It’s Time to Stop Blaming Your Parents! – Craig Harper
  ‘ The parental blame game is a slippery slope of self-pity, self-destruction and futility that’s played by far too many people to their own detriment. It’s a game you’re advised to avoid ‘
  If you feel this might in the slightest way apply to you, there might be a lot of value in this post. Do read it!
• FitNesse Tutorials – Brett Schuchert
• Workaround is a Four-Letter Word – Chris Missal
  ‘ I’ve heard this word a lot in my career and I’ve decided it now deserves the same feeling of disgust the word “hack” gives me. Hopefully you’re on the same page as me’
• Required developer reading – Jimmy Bogard
  Reference to James Kovacs’s Bookshelf, a great resource for finding the next development book to read
• James Kovacs’ Weblog – The Bookshelf
• jQuery Makes Me Smile – Scott Watermasysk
• Member offers IT consultants advice about starting their own business – Mary Weilage
  Wait, wait; not everyone at once!
• It’s official, SharePoint Designer 2007 is now free… as in free (Reg-ware) – Greg Duncan
• 10 Simple and Impressive Design Techniques – Mark Praschan
• Back to the future! Exploring ASP.NET MVC Futures – Maarten Balliauw
  Maarten is spelunking the ASP.NET MVC source code
• Preview: Placeholder arguments and custom argument checkers – ISerializable – Roy Osherove
• Microsoft Tag in slightly less cool than I thought Shocker – Josh Twist
• Are you ready for financial mashup widgets? – Jim Carroll
  ‘ Given that mashups are a big part of youth culture, it shouldn’t be surprising that we’ll find the concept making its way into business in the next several years ‘
• NHibernate “null identifier” error – Alkampfer
• Parallel Computing: The New Old Thing – Ade Miler
  ‘ What if someone told you that your application isn’t going to run faster on the next generation of hardware? What if they said that it might actually run slower? ‘
• trendwatching.com’s April 2009 Trend Briefing covering SELLSUMERS
  Maybe a bit over the top, but still interesting post to show how the economy is rapidly changing today
  via 37 signals blog
• Baskets Of Bugs – Micahel
  ‘ My life of late seems to be one bug after another. It all starts with my product: Live Mesh for Mac ‘
  Story of a bug hunt
• Testing sucks – James Whittaker
  ‘ (…) all the managers out there need to ask themselves what they’ve done lately to make their testers more creative. If you don’t have an answer, then testing isn’t the only thing that sucks ‘
• The Weekly Source Code 40 – TweetSharp and Introducing Tweet Sandwich – Scott Hanselman
  ‘ This app, modified, could be used to waste dead trees by printing out tweets that contain words.(..) It could also make the computer beep when a sandwich order arrives. Oh! There’s an idea! ‘
  Where does Scott find all the time to make such cool and elaborate blog posts. O wait, his probably blogs in his Unwrapp: Help for the Web App-addicted – Darrell Etherington
  ‘ managing and keeping track of all the apps I use requires a web app of its own, and that’s just what Unwrapp does ‘
  Me? I feel this pain, so definitely am going to check this out. Waiting for the invite now…