Arjan’s World

Back after a couple week off being completely offline in the Alps (Austria), the Linkblog is now resuming it’s normal rhythm. Enjoy!

• One Of My Favorite NHibernate 2.1 Features – Davy Brion
• Fluent Domain Methods – Jan van Ryswyck
• Just Isolate It Already – Justin Etheredge
• Writing a Custom NHibernate Class Validator – Billy McCafferty
• Rotten Tomatoes + Netflix + Greasemonkey = RottenFlix – Matt Blodgett
  ‘ I give you RottenFlix, my first published Greasemonkey script ‘
• Does It Make Sense To Use NHibernate in a Sproc-Only Shop? – Russell Ball
  ‘ my gut instinct says that you would loose about 90% of the benefits if you only ever used sprocs with NHibernate. However (…) ‘ read on…
• Getting rid of the Formview templates – Jef Claes
  ‘ Having a readonly-mode and an edit-mode in a webform to manipulate data is a pretty common situation ‘
• The Daily Scrum Exercise Program – Brett Schuchert
• On Development: Event raising syntax – Patrik Hägne
• Opinion: The Mind of an Elite Software Engineer – D. P. Bullington
• Is C# Now Better Than Java? – DevTopics
• 31 Days of Refactoring – Sean Chambers
  ‘ , throughout the month of August I will be describing one refactoring a day for the 31 days of August ‘
• Craig’s Utility Library v1.5 – Sometimes we just need that Image to ASCII art converter (and all those other cool things in Craig’s grab-bag o’ code) – Greg Duncan
• Silverlight, Validation and MVVM – Part II – Josh Twist
• Hanselminutes on 9 – ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 1 Released – Scott Hanselman
  ‘ Quoting from the ASP.NET MVC Roadmap, the theme for ASP.NET MVC 2 is “Improved Productivity and Enterprise Ready.” ‘
• RESTful Services with ASP.NET MVC – Service Station – Aaron Skonnard
• Exception Logging with EntLib Made Simple – David Starr
• Yo Dawg, I Heard Your Build Failed Because You Refactored Unit Tests… – Bobby Johnson
• Code is Not That Important, Marketing Is – Soon Hui
• GTD: “Personal Kanban” – The PAIR System – Rob Cooper
  Wow, Rob is on a real GTD spree these days. Need to find some spare time to dive through the immense archive he’s been building up during my holiday. Time that probably won’t be there though…
• Writing extension for Msbuild – Alkampfer
  ‘ Creating a Task is a simple matter of inheriting from the Task class but there are some key points you should keep in mind (…) ‘
• Getting Ready for .NET 3.5 and LINQ – Exploring C# 3.0 – Part II – Manish Sharma
• Silverlight 3 Navigation: Dynamically Loaded Pages… Now MEF Powered! – Brad Abrams
• New Visual Studio Learn Page – Charlie Calvert
• Single Project Areas With ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 1 – Phil Haack
  ‘ The goal of this feature is to help manage complexity when developing a large site by factoring the site into multiple projects (…)’
• Garbage Collection Thread Suspension Delay (250ms Multiples) – Sasha Goldshtein