Arjan’s World

This edition comes in late. That’s related to the message that follows shortly

• 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 on the anticipated responses of others.
  Christopher makes a confession that is wholesome for him, and probably for more of us
• Refactoring Day 25 : Introduce Design By Contract checks – Sean Chambers
• Sysinternals 101 – “Notes from the field,” a quick intro to a few Sysinternals utilities (Process Explorer, TCPView, Process Monitor, VMMap) – Greg Duncan
• LINQ to NHibernate: A Vast Improvement – Russell Ball
• VSTS Rangers Site is now live – A great resource for serious VSTS/TFS users – Greg Duncan
• Caching Key Generation Considerations – Steve Smith
• Michael C. Feathers: Seven Blind Alleys in Software Design – Jonas Bandi
  Video of Michael Feathers. Transcript included
• Book Review: Trust Agents – Eric Brown
• Building Remarkable Work And Play Environments – Part 12 – Rajiv Popat
  ‘ The incident was an interesting insight into what alpha-geeks and genuine builders expect out of their organization when it comes to logo-wear and toys ‘
• The Project Manager And Social Media (presentation) – Bas de Baar
  ‘ This presentation will explain how social media can solve communication problems specific for today’s and future projects, and how these tools help PMs improve their own skills.” ‘
• Some “Developers” Just Can’t Develop – Richard Banks
  ‘ (…) the slow realisation dawned on me that I’d been lied to. I know – I’m quick off the mark aren’t I? ‘
  Oops!
• You don’t know what you’ve got until you get it – Willem van den Ende
  ‘ (…) many potential users will have the same idea as me: they already have a solution that works for them, so they are not going to try this new thing out ‘
• Design Patterns Explained – Stanley Kubasek
  review of the book by this title
• Build Your Own Data Access Layer: Hydrating Entities – Davy Brion
  ‘ Note: This post is part of a series. Be sure to read the introduction here ‘
• Castle WCF facility and bit of channel reconnection – Bart Reyserhove
• Host .NET Applications on Rackspace Cloud Servers with Mono – Rinat Abdullin
  ‘ Let’s talk about deploying .NET applications on Linux-driven Cloud Servers offered by the Rackspace (”Slicehost” and “Mosso” brands) ‘
• Wrap-up: Doing More with Less – James Kovacs
• Null References: The Billion Dollar Mistake
  Tony Hoare on how he “invented” the null reference, and that this is the mistake of his lifetime
• Giving and Receiving Effective Feedback – Mark Levison
• Agile Testing versus Waterfall Test Phases – Kellly Waters
• Introduction to DDD for the implementation oriented – Jettro Coenradie
• 5 Copywriting Tips For Any Sized Business – Monika Mundell
  ‘ Copywriting, according to Wikipedia is described as “getting across the perfect message, with the perfect words ‘
  And here’s how to do it
• Book review: Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 – Maarten Balliauw
  Maarten reviews this new book co-written by Simone Chiaretta and Keyvan Nayyeri:
  ‘ If you need a book which gives you the basics and some more advanced topics, Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 is really for you ‘
• The Social Web Isn’t Just for the Young Anymore – Jennifer Martinez