DevMavens

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n.  A person who has special knowledge or experience;
an expert.

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('dev-mā'vən)

n.  An expert developer with great influence.

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Scott Hanselman | Scott Hanselman | 28 Jan 2012 02:27

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs of Software DevelopmentSubscribe to Scott Hanselman

Scott Hanselman writes "....I've been experimenting with my diet a little and considering a Paleo diet. What an amazing and selfish thing, though, for me to even consider or be able to change my diet in a fundamental way. Only someone who isn't worried about their next meal..."
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Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs of Software Development
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Steve Smith | Blog | 27 Jan 2012 21:25

Reviewing Scrumban the BookSubscribe to Blog

Steve Smith writes "....I’ve been reading a bunch of kanban and lean books recently as I work on my Pluralsight course on Introducing Kanban (not published yet – will link to it when it is).  The most recent one I’ve finished is Scrumban, Essays on Kanban Systems for..."
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Reviewing Scrumban the Book
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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 27 Jan 2012 10:00

Bug Hunt: What made this blog slow?Subscribe to Ayende @ Rahien

Oren Eini writes "....A while ago the blog start taking 100% CPU on the client machines. Obviously we were doing something very wrong there, but what exactly was it? We track down the problem to the following code, can you figure out what the problem?..."
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Bug Hunt: What made this blog slow?
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Rob Conery | Rob Conery | 27 Jan 2012 09:05

I’m A Piece of Trash: Recycle MeSubscribe to Rob Conery

Rob Conery writes "....I stare at the bottom of my drained coffee cup - the stray grounds settle on the bottom in a final stand against the tyranny of filtration. The quiet of the morning is leaving me - the minivans, SUVs, hybrid/crossover/family cars are pulling up in..."
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I’m A Piece of Trash: Recycle Me
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Steve Smith | Blog | 26 Jan 2012 20:22

Updating Blog to Orchard and Switching DomainsSubscribe to Blog

Steve Smith writes "....So, yesterday I posted a review of the new Asus Ultrabook and, as has become rather predictable lately, the virtual web server hosting my Graffiti-powered blog started having 100% CPU for quite a while after the post went live.  Now, I don’t..."
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Updating Blog to Orchard and Switching Domains
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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 26 Jan 2012 10:00

Northwind Starter Kit Review: ConclusionSubscribe to Ayende @ Rahien

Oren Eini writes "....This is a review of the Northwind Starter Kit project, this review revision 94815 from Dec 18 2011. A while ago I said: Seriously?!  22(!) projects to do a sample application using Northwind? And people took me up to task about it. The..."
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Northwind Starter Kit Review: Conclusion
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Steve Smith | Blog | 25 Jan 2012 23:13

About SteveSubscribe to Blog

Steve Smith writes "....Hi, I'm Steve Smith.  I go by Ardalis online because, well, you'd understand if your name was Steve Smith. This is now the fifth place I've had a blog, if you don't count my initial home page and articles on ASPAlliance.com, which were somewhat..."
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About Steve
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Dave Ward | Encosia | 25 Jan 2012 15:00

The ASUS Zenbook UX31: Initial impressionsSubscribe to Encosia

Dave Ward writes "....For over a year now, I’ve been using a 13” MacBook Air as my only laptop. Though it’s a bit underpowered and I prefer Windows to OS X, I was ultimately unable to resist Apple’s build quality compared to the Dell I had used previously. However, I..."
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The ASUS Zenbook UX31: Initial impressions
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Steve Smith | Steve Smith's Blog | 25 Jan 2012 14:18

Asus Zen Ultrabook First ImpressionsSubscribe to Steve Smith's Blog

Steve Smith writes "....Last week a received a new Asus UX31E Zenbook Ultrabook laptop computer, which I’ve been putting through the paces.  I’d like to write up my thoughts on the unboxing and my initial impression of the machine, and I’ll write more in a few weeks..."
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Asus Zen Ultrabook First Impressions
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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 25 Jan 2012 10:00

Ask Ayende: Handling filteringSubscribe to Ayende @ Rahien

Oren Eini writes "....With regards to my quests against repositories, Matt asks: …if my aggregate root query should exclude entities that have, for example, and IsActive = false flag, I also don't want to repeatedly exclude the IsActive = false entities. Using the..."
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Ask Ayende: Handling filtering
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Featured Maven

Oren Eini is a senior developer / architect, focusing on architecture, data access and best practices. Most often, he is working on building complex business systems using .Net 2.0, NHibernate and Castle's Frameworks, providing training and guidance for the use of Object Relational Mapping, Inversion of Control, Domain Driven Design and other exciting topics. Oren is an active member in several leading Open Source projects, including (but not limited :-) ) NHibernate, Castle and Rhino Mocks.

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Jeff Atwood (codinghorror)

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Jesse Liberty (JesseLiberty)

Jesse Liberty (JesseLiberty) Getting ready to interview Julie Lerman for Yet Another Podcast. Can't wait. about 9 hours ago from TweetDeck


Jon Galloway (jongalloway)

Jon Galloway (jongalloway) @xamarinhq @NotMyself You can get a downloadable link to the HTML5 video by viewing source. This temp url works for me: http://t.co/7varkQsZ about 9 hours ago from Seesmic


Rob Conery (robconery)

Rob Conery (robconery) @juristr I usually get an email - gimme 30 mins and I'll respond (just got in) about 9 hours ago from Twitter for Mac


Jeff Atwood (codinghorror)

Jeff Atwood (codinghorror) is it just me or is The Brave Little Toaster the absolute nadir of American animation? It is so SO profoundly bad. about 10 hours ago from web


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Scott Hanselman (shanselman)

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