Arjan’s World

And we’re back after another quiet episode. Quiet on the linkblog, though certainly not quiet for me

• Six political animals you might encounter at your client’s office – Chip Camden
  Chip has a great overview of difficult personalities you might will encounter somewhere in office space. And most importantly, how to deal with them
• People Motivation: Target Intrinsic Desires – Jurgen Appelo
  ‘ (…) what is intrinsic motivation? Well, let’s investigate, starting with Self-determination theory ‘
• Thoughts about the Design Master Class – Laila Bougria
• Change base directory of a site in IIS – Alkampfer
  ‘ This technique works for IIS6 and IIS7 with the “IIS 6 WMI Compatibility” installed. The purpose is changing the directory of a web site in a remote server ‘
• Twitter is crowdsourcing the translation to Italian, and I’m part of it – Simone Chiaretta
  ‘ The cool thing is that the interface is not being translated by a team of professional translators but by a selected number of users ‘
  And Simone is among those users. Earns you at least a nice ‘translator badge on your profile page
• URL Routing with ASP.NET 4 Web Forms (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) – Scott Guthrie
  ‘ This is the eighth in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the upcoming VS 2010 and .NET 4 release ‘
• Life inside an Aggregate Root, part 1 – Richard Dingwall
  ‘ One of the most important concepts in Domain Driven Design is the Aggregate Root — a consistency boundary around a group of related objects that move together ‘
• Dead Simple Geolocation… – Scott Galloway
• Showing a List of Today’s Birthdays in SharePoint – Kirk Evans
• VSTS 2010 TMap process templates infographic – Clemens Reijnen
• Software Externalities – Phil Haack
  ‘ (…) these so called “simple” solutions need to factor [maintenance, ed.] in, or the customers will continually be left with the clean-up duty while the polluters have long since moved on ‘
  Spot on!
• Why I Prefer Web Application Projects – Brendan Enrick
• Avoid Entrenched Dependencies -Steve Smith
• Changing the role of test managers – Gojko Adzic
• Using SQLite in 64-bit .NET environments – Benny Michielsen
• Build Your Own Data Access Layer: Enabling Bulk Inserts – Davy Brion
  ‘ Note: This post is part of a series. Be sure to read the introduction here ‘
• TIP: How to Run Programs as a Domain User from a Non-domain Computer – James Kovacs
• Non-Technical Factors that Lead to Poor Architectures – Mike Walker
• The Woodcutter and the Leprechaun – Kees Dijk
  Story time! ‘ There once was a woodcutter working hard cutting down a tree. Suddenly a leprechaun appeared and started yelling stop stop ‘
• High Scalability – High Performance at Massive Scale – Lessons learned at Facebook
  Referal to a webscast on how Facebook manages to handle it’s enourmous user base
• Team Explorer 2005 & 2008 & 2010 Beta 1 Compatibility Matrix – Teams WIT Tools
  Issues and workarounds.
• All the Nobel Prize Winners by Country – Amit Agarwal
• Git# Offers Git Access for .NET and Mono Projects – Abel Avram
  ‘ Git# is meant to be “fully compatible with the original git and shall be a light weight library for cool applications that are based on git as their object database or are reading or manipulating repositories in some way ‘
• Try to knockout before you consider to mock-out – Venkat
  ‘ As more programmers are getting excited about test driven development (TDD), one concern I am
  hearing more these days is “my tests and mocks make it hard to refactor code.” ‘
• A Guide to Receiving Feedback Part I: Ask for It – Patrick Kua
  ‘ I think there are plenty of resources for how to give effective feedback (…) yet I can’t find as many about the other end, or how to go about receiving feedback ‘
  So here it is
• Scala: Code Kata #2 – Karate Chop – Array Slicing Attempt – Mark Needham
• Seven Essentials Teamwork Skills – Mishkin Berteig
• Share Folders in Google Docs – Google Blog
  ‘ You can now share folders with your contacts and even make some of your folders public ‘
  Certainly a nice addition to Google Docs!