Arjan’s World

Once again, signing off for the weekend. Wish you all a joyful Easter, and see you all back next week!

• I can’t find my Find Dialog in Visual Studio – Rick Strahl
  Rick has one of those pesky issues with Visual Studio, that we all must endure every now and then
• Simple Code Navigation with ReSharper – Ray Houston
  ‘ Here’s a quick 5 minute screen cast that demonstrates how you can use ReSharper to get where you want to be in your code ‘
• The Mythical Man Month: Book Review – Mark Needham
  First of several book reviews today
• Remote Desktop: /span across multiple monitors – Kirill Osenkov
• Book Review: Outliers – Brad Abrams
  ‘ Gladwell is a masterful story teller. You can not walk away from this book without thinking about the world differently ‘
• Testing with a Compiled Class that Doesn’t Implement an Interface – Adapter Pattern – Sean Biefeld
• Fun with PowerShell and TFS Work Items – Peter Provost
• Don’t Get Bit By Lazy Evaluation – Justin Etheredge
• The CIO’s Inner Circle – Andy Blumenthal
  ‘ Even the greatest of CIOs is not superman and cannot go it alone. He/she needs a diverse workforce with the full spectrum of capabilities (…) ‘
• Help Support Open Source Software – Go Vote Now : Jeffrey Palermo
• Avoid the Seven Deadly Sins of Networking – Adam Pash
  ‘ it’s more often than not bad networking that puts people off networking altogether ‘
• Getting (a) PAL in two minutes – Greg Duncan
  ‘ The Busy Dev’s Guide to the Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) tool ‘
• Hire the Best – Maintenance – Keyvan Nayyeri
• 25 Text Batch Processing Tools Reviewed – Sachin Dhall
  Every now and then one of these little tools come in handy, saving a lot of repetitive work
• Where’s the MEF Harness? – Kathleen Dollard
• Training Your Users – Jeff Atwood
  ‘ When it comes to user interface design, I’m no guru, but I do have one golden rule that I always try to follow:
  Make the right thing easy to do and the wrong thing awkward to do ‘
• *** How to implement catch (Exception e)? – Marc Jacobi
  ‘ How often did you see a C# catch(Exception e) statement in code? How often did you write it yourself? ‘
  Some good advice in here
• How a Sucky Economy Makes A Professional Identity Outside of the Workplace More Important… – Kris Dunn
• The Idiocy Of Ideologues – Miki Saxon
• How Not to Carry Around Secret Documents – Bruce Schneier
  ‘ Here’s a tip: when walking around in public with secret government documents, put them in an envelope
• External Drives – Which Technology Should You Use? – Keith Elder
• Multithread testing – Alkampfer
• Starting A Business in A Challenging Economic Climate, Part One (Why Now?) – Susan Baroncini-Moe
  ‘ History shows us that the economy may not have as much of an impact on startups as you might think ‘
• Backwards-Compatibility: Why Most Versioning Problems Aren’t – Udi Dahan
  ‘ If two adjacent versions of a given system aren’t compatible with each other, it is practically impossible to solve versioning issues ‘
• 13 Ways of Looking at an Index Card – Dustin Wax
  ‘ Index cards are one of the most versatile parts of the productive person’s toolkit ‘
• We need to get this done – Tim Stall
  ‘ Anyone can say “we gotta get this done <insert drama here>”. Sometimes this is just a broken record – everything is top priority and needs to be done now – but sometimes a specific task is truly on the critical path and is blocking other people ‘
• Our New World Demands Leadership That is Bigger Than Me – Bob Buford
  ‘ We’ve seen it all before: Successful leaders being led off in hand cuffs, in disgrace, leaving a legacy of broken promises and wasted resources ‘
• Logical Query Processing Phases – Order of Statement Execution – Pinal Dave
• The Data Mining Renaissance – Gary Orenstein
  ‘ (…) the web changed the way we radiate and consume information and in doing so, created a new opportunity to measure and monetize it ‘
• Constant Contact with Your Boss Makes You Productive (Seriously) – Kevin Purdy
  Really? Read more…