Arjan’s World

Loosen Up Your Writing Grip to Banish Pain – Jason Fitzpatrick
‘ For those of us born and raised in the computer age, it is hard to imagine how novelists of yore hand wrote entire tomes before sending them on for editing and publication ‘
Builders, Story Tellers And Whiners – Part 7 – Rajiv Popat
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Use Xml field in SqlServer with nhibernate – Alkampfer
Book Review: Making Things Happen – Jim Holmes
A different approach to inappropriate defaults – Jon Skeet
Dutch Fond Of Social Technologies, But Why? – Jeremiah Owyang
OK, so we – the Dutch – are extremely fond of social technologies. Why would that be? Jeremiah doesn’t have the answers, instead [...]

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Project Scheduling – 14 Designers Share Their Advice – Selene M. Bowlby
Why these jQuery worst practices aren’t – Scott Koon
Starting Over—As An Entrepreneur – Rich Whittle
What kind of open are you looking for? – Seth Godin
‘ open sesame: the best way to get into a cave ‘
Listing everything that can possibly be open
Dealing with negativity: [...]

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Visual Studio and Mono at TechEd – Darren Stokes
Book Review: Implementing Automated Software Testing – Jim Holmes
VB.Net and the Case of the Iffy Ifs – Anne Epstein
Riddle Me This, Riddle Me That – Bil Simser
‘ When it comes to SharePoint surveys, there’s a lot to explore. And a lot missing ‘
The Five Reasons Why You [...]

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How to Mine Twitter for Information – Dawn Foster
The Value of Paper Prototyping – Christian Watson
Continuous Integration Lessons Learned – Christopher Judd
I wrote code for a botnet today – Adam Shostack
Preventing Poor Performance in Teams – Surinder Kahai
Six Easy Ways to Graph Your Life – Gina Trapani
Gina shows some great ways to procrastinate, err, to [...]

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Calling private methods from Unit Tests – Patrick Smacchia
Good programmers put code in production – Alkampfer
‘ (…) my single reason that identify good programmers is “A good programmer is the one that put code in production” it means that good programmers makes programs that works and works for long time ‘
Axum – Tomas Restrepo
Lots of [...]

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Using LINQ to Manage File Resources and Context Menus – Michael Sorens
Desktop Rebuild Update – Jason Haley
Social Presence and Team Satisfaction – Rebecca Jestice
Debugging Silverlight in IE8 (on Windows 7) – Shawn Wildermuth
GridView with no Inline Styles (mostly!) – Scott Galloway
Builders, Story Tellers, Whiners – Part 5 – r Rajiv Popat
Windows XP Inside Windows 7: [...]

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Software Architecture Cheatsheet Part 2 – Choosing the Right Paradigm – Sebastien Arbogast
‘ Environment! Environment! Environment! ‘
How to Make Gmail Your Ultimate Productivity Center – Leo Babauta
You can do *anything* with GMail these days. Anything? Anything.
You Are a Gardener (Oh, and Me Too) – Jurgen Appelo
‘ There is a big difference between managing complicated [...]

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Builders, Story Tellers And Whiners – Part 4 – Rajiv Popat
Rajiv with part 4 of his continuing saga on our industry, and the truly (in)competent in it
OpenOffice.org 3.1’s Usability Tweaks – Kevin Purdy
Free 50-Page PDF of The Simple Dollar’s Best Advice – Kevin Purdy
Get your finances in order with this 50-page PDF, “Everything You Need [...]

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Slowly getting up to speed after an offline week in the countryside with the family

Maintain integrity in NHibernate bidirectional association – Alkampfer
Dumping Static Fields with WinDBG – Tomas Restrepo
PTOM: Breaking Free from HttpContext – Colin Ramsay
Newspapers 2.x? The New York Times REST API and the New York Times Silverlight Kit – Greg Duncan
Writing 101: Bullets [...]

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