Arjan’s World

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 fiddler to trace the HTTP interaction a user’s browser has when resetting the router so I could recreate this using the System.Net.WebClient in ASP.NET ‘
• TreeViewAdv for .Net (a Free/OSS C# WinForm TreeView component) v1.7 Released – Greg Duncan
• Typemock Racer – Soon Hui
  Typemock has an upcoming product for detecting deadlock in parallel programming
• Refactoring XmlWriter – Chris Brandsma
• Book Review: The Element -Eric D. Brown
  ‘ The basic premise is that every person has their own ‘Element’ that they fit the best into. What is the element? Basically, the Element is the location where a person’s passion, interests and natural abilities intersect ‘
• Observing And Understanding Genuine Builders – Part 11 – Rajiv Popat
  ‘ If you are having a bad day as a manager — deal with it — without passing on the badness to your team ‘
• 100 comments to celebrate 100 IT Consultant posts – Chip Camden
  ‘ to celebrate our 100th conversation, I’m highlighting some of your most enlightening comments on my first 99 posts ‘
  Congrats on 100 posts, Chip! A funny way to celebrate this
• Microsoft BizSpark: Serving 15,000 startups and counting! – Somasegar
  ‘ Eight months ago, Microsoft announced the availability of Microsoft BizSpark, a program that helps early-stage startups succeed by providing Microsoft software, support and visibility at no upfront cost ‘
  From the outside it seems like a success, this new Microsoft program.
• Beware the perils of local time – Tom Hollander
  ‘ Sydney was coming out of daylight savings on that night, so the hour from 2am to 3am was repeated ‘
  Tom shows that this normally does not cause any problem *at all* but when it comes to secure logging used in audit trails, it is another matter
• GemFire 6.0: New innovations in data management – Inquiry
• Seams: Some thoughts – Mark Needham
  Warning: DDD stuff ahead!
• Measuring velocity is not enough to determine team productivity – Jack Milunsky
  ‘ Velocity in my opinion, is not a metric for determining productivity. Productivity or team efficiency is difficult to measure and probably best left for another blog post ‘