Arjan’s World

Management Craft: How to be a change agent – Lisa Haneberg
‘ Sure, we all instigate/catalyze changes from time to time. Some of us more than others. But most of the time, we are needing to pick up the ball – someone else’s ball – and make it work ‘
IllustrativeProgramming – Martin Fowler
‘ What’s the most [...]

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IDE vs. vim is integration testing vs. unit testing – Giorgio Sironi
Unit Testing EJB 3.1 …When 0.8 Seconds Are Too Long [SOURCE CODE INCLUDED] – Adam Bien
Five step process for removing viruses and spyware from client machines – Erik Eckel
Or your own machine, of course
Convention Over Configuration with Jeremy Miller – Hanselminutes #167
Google doesn’t close [...]

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A Craftsman sometimes has to create his own tool – Sergio Pereira
Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0 – Mike Walker
Give VAN some BUZZ – Zachariah Young
‘ The following list is just some examples of what you could do. You might choose to do all of them, or just one ‘
This is my buzz, now it’s *your* [...]

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Collaborative Knowledge Sharing and Decision Making… – Clemens Reijnen
The Rush – Unle Bob
‘ There’s nothing like the feeling of achievement when you get a complex software system working. It’s the feeling of the hunter making a hard fought kill ‘
A Beginners’ Guide to Big O Notation – Rob Bell
‘ Big O specifically describes the worst-case [...]

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How to Eliminate Compulsive Internet Fiddling – Celine Roque
Hold Better, Less Stressful Meetings with the Web – Doriano Carta
‘ We all know how painful it is to coordinate a meeting involving more than a couple of people ‘
Yup, we do. So here’s a couple web tools that might be new to you
Data Crunching in [...]

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10 UI Design Patterns You Should Be Paying Attention To – Janko Jovanovic
Great and visually appealing article
Delayed execution vs ToList() in LINQ Database Queries – Jason Young
Accidental Prescience and the Secrets of Project Natal – Scott Hanselman
These are the little bugs that lead to madness – Scott Hanselman
How I Set Up My Mac – Scott [...]

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Web Developers: Don’t Be Password Idiots – Ian
Some important tips for implementing a password scheme on your website
C# 3.0 Unleashed: With the .NET Framework 3.5 – Johnny Taft
Yet There is an Iran – Keyvan Nayyeri
‘ In the end I wish a world in peace, liberty, and justice for all the nations in the world including [...]

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Circling the big domino – Seth Godin
‘ But if you line up all the dominos one by one, in the right order, you may just have enough energy to push over the first one ‘
For developers only – Patrick de Laive
‘ This year is the 2nd time we organize Kings of Code, a conference for [...]

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Capturing the weekend

Restricting attribute usage – Marc Gravell
‘ .NET attributes are a great way of expressing metadata (when used appropriately), but I regularly see people frustrated that you can’t have much control over when you can apply them ‘
A developer’s roundabout way of fixing some issues with a wireless router – Josh Twist
‘ I used [...]

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How do ASP.NET Application_ Events Work – Rick Strahl
‘ If you’ve worked with ASP.NET for any amount of time you probably know about the global.asax file and its backing global class that holds event handlers for several common HttpApplication Event Handlers ‘
One day with Balsamiq Mockups: a review – Christopher Bennage
Eric Evans: Why do efforts [...]

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