Arjan’s World

Hi there! I’m glad your following along with the Linkblog. Unfortunately for you – but fortunately for me – some new things have come up on my radar recently that require my attention. And that you might hear about in due time. Staying 100% on top of the software [...]

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Windows 7 – User Experience Design – Andries van der Meulen
The Largest Wicked Problem in Software is Politics and Management – Jak Charlton
Lacking Confidence – Christopher Bennage
‘ Despite the fact that I don’t officially care what others think, I frequently base my actions [...]

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7 Kinds of Relationship to Social Media – Rajesh Setty
Don’t Move the Table – Jim Holmes
Great story that starts out with you wondering what it’s about. but *do* read till the end and learn an important message
Visual Studio Add-In vs. Integration Package – Part 2 – Keyvan Nayyeri
The Application Class and Application Services in Silverlight [...]

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The IT consultant as educator and student – Chip Camden
‘ Chip (…) encourages IT consultants to be teachers as well as students ‘
Learning: Thoughts on doing so more effectively – Mark Needham
Refactoring Day 24 : Remove Arrowhead Antipattern – Sean Chambers
Does your Visual Studio run slow? – Richard Dingwall
Yeah it does? Everyone’s VS runs [...]

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A Simple WPF Loading Animation – Brian Lagunas
Resolving relative URL’s from JavaScript – Fredrik Kalseth
Visual Studio Add-In vs. Integration Package – Part 1 – Keyvan Nayyeri
Cooking Bacon, Part 1 – Tony Rasa
MvcContrib version control has moved to GitHub : Jeffrey Palermo
SSMS Tip – Display Results in a Separate Tab – Rhonda Tipton
We Need Standards [...]

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Wiring Up Generics In Castle Windsor – John Teague
WCF Extensibility part 2: The big picture – Alex Thissen
Followed by a part 3
OpenRasta 2.0 beta 2 is out – Sebastien Lambla
Queueing Theory In Action, plus, frogs – Eric Lippert
Write Firefox Extensions in Visual Studio with Web Site Projects – Travis Illig
Some useful DateTime extensions – Mark [...]

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Agile Fixed Price revisited – part 2 – Pascal Van Cauwenberghe
‘ Agile fixed price projects require greater effort and involvement from the customer. A hard release date is a good indicator of a motivated customer ‘
Blame the Road – Not the Person – John Hunter
Testing Protected Methods is Easy – Karl Seguin
Of Course NHibernate Is [...]

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Comparison of Online Screen Recorders – Amit Agarwal
Amit Agarwal
What (Else) Can Agile Learn from Complexity? – Jurgen Appelo
My book: Are You Better Than Yesterday? – Mark Nijhof
Disclosing How C#-SQLite Was Ported to .NET – Abel Avram
The Secret To Delivering On Time – Kelly Waters
Impersonators: Finding the enabling point – Mark Needham
The Attached Behavior Pattern – [...]

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Why the Re-think? – Mike Cottmeyer
A GC API that would be convenient – Patrick Smacchia
‘ Such GetAliveInstancesOf() method could come at a performance cost because it would certainly forces the GC to stop all thread to build the list of alive instances ‘
WPF is not WinForms – Björn Rochel
CodePlex Editor Role – Harry Pierson
Rate Your [...]

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More Google Reader “Send To” Tricks – Kevin Purdy
I’m currently investigating all the “send to” options. I’s nice but slowly heading in the direction of overkill IMO. From and to Google Reader, Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, PDF, Delicous and even your email client and calendar. We need to think and find a way to keep on [...]

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