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 Cases – Karl [...]

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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 – Jason Moore
Revised: [...]

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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 amounts of data), [...]

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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 a complex system like TFS [...]

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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 Tests – [...]

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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 – Erik Eckel
‘ IT [...]

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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
‘ (…) long story short, if you have [...]

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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 an implementation” (…) How [...]

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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 is having options. That is, [...]

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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 as a simple hobby has [...]

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