Arjan’s World

I am currently slashing my way through Code Leader: Using People, Tools, and Processes to Build Successful Software by Patrick Cauldwell. Since the book doesn’t seem to show up in reviews , and I thought it deserved a mention, here goes:
It is set up around the three parts Philosophy (TDD, CI), Process (Testing/Source control, code [...]

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MVC Storefront Preview 1 Available – Rob Conery
‘ There is a lot of work left to be done but I thought it would be a good idea to package up a Preview so that people can play with the site and the code ‘
The Devil’s IT Manual: Part 3 – Phrases with which to discourage [...]

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Using Visual Studio to debug a Mono process running on Linux – Greg Duncan
Geekery!
How Do You Prefer an English Blog to Be Written? – Keyvan Nayyeri
Good questions of a non-native speaker – as myself; you might not realize this as a native speaker. We’re a small group, but we are present
Why a comparison of a [...]

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Actually, the subtitle says it all:
” Biting and humorous tales of a software engineering manager “
but let’s dive a bit deeper: This is a 2007 book, mainly compiled from the not-cheap-on-sarcasm Rands in Repose website, learning us every management trick in an unconventional way. It is from the guy who brought us NADD, Nerd Attention [...]

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