Arjan’s World

This is the last update till next week Wednesday. Taking a week off to do some serious biking. See you all back probably next week Wednesday!

• What’s been happening in Fluent NHibernate land? – James Gregory
• Book review: Learning Ext JS – Maarten Balliauw
• Hosting wcf service in precompiled web sites – Alkampfer
• Taking PeepCode for a spin – Sergio Pereira
• CMS vs Code It Yourself – Dave Bush
• What the F**k is Social Media? – Chris Spagnuolo
  ‘ Wow! Bet that title got your attention. It got mine too! It’s actually the title of a great presentation I stumbled across on SlideShare this weekend from Marta Kagan ‘
• The 7 Phases of Unit Testing – Karl Seguin
• Why Messaging #1 – Intro – Dru Sellers
• The insurance of software, or “How to take joy in being risk-averse” – Kyle Baley
• At This Point, I’d Prefer Java Developers Over .NET Developers – Davy Brion
• Developer’s, do we really need to worry about concurrent, parallel, multi-threaded, many-core development? – Greg Duncan
  ‘ A picture is worth a thousands words… ‘
• Why a culture of quality matters – Steve Donie
• To MVC or to WebForms? – Chad Myers
  ‘ In case you haven’t been following it, there’s a sort of blog storm happening around whether or not you should learn ASP.NET MVC (or indeed MVC in general) or stick with Web Forms ‘
• Thoughts on a cloud manifesto – Matt Milner
• Time and Space Tradoffs in Version Control Storage – Eric Sink
• Why Most Developers are Rubbish at Estimating – Tony Davis
• Software Is Hardwork: Marker Interfaces Are Just Metadata
  ‘ moral of the story: use custom attributes in .NET code instead of the marker interface; they are conceptually equivalent ‘
• Creating a Simple Silverlight Countdown Blog badge – Josh Holmes
• Why agile transitions initiatives might fail – Jeffrey Palermo
  This rings home with me: I’ve seen more often – with the introduction of agile into a project, but also in other situations – that something shiny and new is brought in as the best thing since sliced bread. With no metric of success you can choose afterward whether it was a complete success (if you brought in the method yourself) or an utter failure (if you’re envious with you colleague
• The strange case of the disappearing Feature: AdapterGroup – Scott Galloway
  ‘ AdapterGroups are in Beta 1 but will (likely) not be in Beta 2 of ASP.NET 4.0 ‘
• How to Deal With Low-Quality Messages – Celine Roque
  Three words: filter, filter, filter IMHO
• Moving a Business – Steve Smith
  All things to be taken into account when physically moving your business
• Dull Networks – How microblogging might turn the wisdom pyramid upside down – Miguel Encarnação
• How much is watching TV costing you? – Matt Linderman
  On the madness of saying you don’t have enough time, yet still watching a whopping 4.5 hours of TV a day
• GKrellM Monitors is a Highly Customizable System Monitor – Jason Fitzpatrick
  ‘ GKrellM is a free system monitor that is highly customizable right out of the box with a host of settings, further enhanced by a large pool of diverse plugins ‘
  cooool tool
• Why Developers are Not Allowed to Work from Home? – Mohammad Azam
  ‘ I believe developers can write much better code when they work from a place which is comforting to them ‘
  Of course! We all agree. But now we need to go tell our managers
• Coding: Weak/Strong APIs – Mark Needham
  ‘ An interesting problem that I’ve come across a few times in the last couple of week centres around how strongly typed we should make the arguments to public methods on our objects ‘
• 9 Lists To Keep Updated, and Keep Handy – David Pierce
  ‘ I’ve started keeping a list of things I want – every time I hear about or come across something I’d like to have, no matter how big or small, it goes on my list ‘
• Maximising learning in development: Do Things Multiple Times – Patrick Kua
  ‘ One thing I constantly remind myself is that we tend to be write pretty poor code the first time we do it. Unfortunately most people also write a lot of first time code, check it in and move on ‘
• Overplanning Can Kill Your Business Idea – Joel Falconer
  ‘ What’s important to note is that people who get stuck in the planning phase and never move on to execution are often stuck in planning because they are scared ‘
  Of course planning is necessary, especially when starting something like your own business as Joel mentions in this post. He shares some tips how to prevent this paralytic situation
• Commit to Something Today! You’ll Be Glad You Did – Chris Spagnuolo
  ‘ So, what’s holding you back from doing something you’re passionate about? Maybe today is your day too ‘
  Feeling so inspired. IMHO we should always strive to achieve at least something worthwhile *every* day, no matter how insignificant. The achievement alone will make you feel better