Arjan’s World

What Lists Do You Always Keep Accessible and Updated? – Erin Schwendemann ‘ Starting and keeping a list isn’t too difficult, of course; it’s keeping it updated and on hand that proves to be the challenge ‘ Functional Collection Parameters: A different way of thinking about collections – Mark Needham NHibnerate : Handling the Special [...]

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What Kind of Rock Band is Your Team? – Andrew Meyer ‘ If the structures and working relationships are not right – think The Police, it probably won’t work, no matter how successful you are ‘ Bridge Building and Software Development – Glen Alleman How I learned to stop worrying and write an iPhone App [...]

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7 Ways To Be Happier At Work – Rich Whittle ‘ Smile. Turns out, smiling is directly linked to happiness ‘ It really helps! Facebook, Hadoop and Hive – Eran Kampf ‘ Facebook has the second largest installation of Hadoop (a software platform that lets one easily write and run distributed applications that process vast [...]

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Build your own Whois Lookup with ASP.NET and jQuery – Mikesdotnetting Issue with ADO.NET Sync Services and SQL Server 2000 – Jason Gaylord Released: XHTML Markup Sanitizer – Tatham Oddie Why opinionated input builders for ASP.NET MVC? – Jimmy Bogard Cannot create project in a newly installed TFS – Alkampfer ‘ When you work with [...]

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Opinionated Input Builders Part 6 – Performance of the builders – Eric Hexter ‘ (…) as far as performance, using the partial views is probably the least efficient way to render html. But with every approach there are tradeoffs ‘ Also check Chad Myers’ reply Code Contracts Primer – Part 3: Providing Support for Unit [...]

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Observing And Understanding Genuine Builders – Part 7 – Rajiv Popat NHibernate : Some Naked Thoughts – Karl Seguin Nontraditional cures for keeping a project on schedule and on budget – Susan Harkins Great Virtual Teams: Rule 3: Hold The Team Together – Bas de Baar Build a better test bench for your IT consultancy [...]

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6 Amazing Techniques to Staying Happy During a Stressful Project – Karl Staib Focus and break it down Test and Context – Alkampfer Guy #3 – Seth Godin Great video! Are you a guy #3, or even a … no 1? Code Contracts Primer – Part 2: Handling Legacy Code – Derik Whittaker ‘ (…) [...]

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Code Contracts Primer – Part 1: Introduction – Derik Whittaker As of version 4.0 (or VS2010) … ‘ The Code Contracts library is going to provide a way to express coding assumptions in .Net ‘ Reflecting reality – Jimmy Bogard When Do I Use Interfaces? – K. Scott Allen ‘ “Program to an interface, not [...]

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High Test Coverage Ratio is a good thing, Anyway! – Patrick Smacchia The Fallacy Of ReUse – Udi Dahan ‘ This industry is pre-occupied with reuse. There’s this belief that if we just reused more code, everything would be better ‘ Chris Hardwick’s Confidence Theory – Gina Trapani ‘ (…) the essence of having confidence [...]

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Stop Using Structs Everywhere – Chris Eargle A plea to think before you code Unit Testing is Not a “Figure It Out Later” – Code Zest NHibernate – Get Thou Out Of My Database – Aynde Rahien What Investing Can Teach You About Software Development (Part 1) – Jeremy Jarrell ‘ (…) what started out [...]

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