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 [...]

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A fresh edition of the LINKBLOG after a period of silence. Enjoy!

SEO with ASP.NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010 – K. Scott Allen
The Things We Learn – Jim Johnson
‘ As in any new situation where you’re just thrown in, there are a number of things that you learn – some good, some useful, and [...]

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PSA: NHibernate Session.Save() do you know what it returns? – Derik Whittaker
Writing an SVN PreCommit Hook in .NET that integrates with Jira – Russell Ball
‘ The most useful [hook, ed.] is the probably the pre-commit hook because it allows you to prevent a commit from occurring, thus providing a way to enforce whatever policies that [...]

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PowerCommands for Reflector – Jason Haley
‘ New CodePlex project: PowerCommands for Reflector (most recent version is 1.0.1.28698) ‘
Rethinking Scrum and XP – Mike Cottmeyer
The Rake’s Progress – Mike Nichols`
Newsflash: Killing Zombies Increases your Typing Speed – Russell Ball
‘ I’ve been dismembering hoards of zombies in the last week and hopefully increasing my typing speed [...]

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Hosted TFS for BizSpark Companies – Martin Woodward
Easy image resizing for the digital camera happy – Image Resizer Powertoy clone for Vista & Windows 7 (32 & 64 bit) – Greg Duncan
Gotchas: MSBuild Conditional Import Ignored by Visual Studio – Ade Miller
What’s the Difference, Part Five: certificate signing vs strong naming – Eric Lippert
SOLID ugly [...]

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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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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 [...]

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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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