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 ‘ [...]

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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 – [...]

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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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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: [...]

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