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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 05 Feb 2012 10:00

RavenDB workshop in NDC, Oslo 4-5th June

Oren Eini writes "....The RavenDB workshop is coming to Oslo, Norway in June! Join us to an intensive RavenDB hands-on workshop just before the great NDC conference starts. During the first day of this workshop we will get to know RavenDB and its core concepts, get..."
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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 03 Feb 2012 07:45

Limit your abstractions: Application Events–the wrong way

Oren Eini writes "....In my previous post, I have taken a few interfaces from a DDD sample application and called the application procedural and hard to maintain. In this post, I want to show you exactly why. We will start with examining this interface, and how it is..."
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Jeff Atwood | Coding Horror | 03 Feb 2012 02:18

Listen to Your Community, But Don't Let Them Tell You What to Do

Jeff Atwood writes "....You know how interviewers love asking about your greatest weakness, or the biggest mistake you've ever made? These questions may sound formulaic, maybe even borderline cliche, but be careful when you answer: they are more important than they seem...."
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Rob Conery | Rob Conery | 03 Feb 2012 02:04

A Handy Script For Compiling CoffeeScript On The Fly

Rob Conery writes "....Rails 3.1 and beyond has the asset pipeline. Node has connect-assets, and there are plenty of "Just In Time" CoffeeScript compilers out there for other platforms as well. I like using a File Watcher - and here's my code."
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Rob Conery | Rob Conery | 02 Feb 2012 19:57

Microsoft Doesn’t Read Their Own Terms of Service Apparently

Rob Conery writes "....Every time Microsoft Marketing tries to make something "viral" it comes off as what my old baseball coach used to call a "Monkey F***ing a Football". It's just the same with their latest "Gmail Man" BS."
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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 02 Feb 2012 07:43

Limit your abstractions: Analyzing a DDD application

Oren Eini writes "....Abstractions have a cost. You should limit them. That seems like an obvious statement, but in a recent discussion I had, I realized that I didn’t articulate things in quite the proper way before. Let me see if I can explain better now. One of the..."
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Steve Smith | Blog | 02 Feb 2012 02:27

Laptop Rebuild - Essential Apps

Steve Smith writes "....When we last saw our hero, he had fallen victim to an evil plot to disable his computer’s ability to boot up.  After great efforts at recovery, eventually he was forced to concede defeat to Vista and reinstall everything from..."
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Steve Smith | Blog | 02 Feb 2012 02:27

Stories Too Big - Vertical Slices

Steve Smith writes "....I have a client who lists as one of the key challenges with implementing agile practices with their teams as managing to define user stories that are valuable but not too big.  This is actually a very common challenge, and one that we run into..."
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Steve Smith | Blog | 02 Feb 2012 02:26

XBox 360 - Home Media Center

Steve Smith writes "....Recently I picked up an HP MediaSmart EX470 Windows Home Server to help consolidate my files at home and to provide a simple backup solution.  It’s been great and it’s an extremely economical way to get backups.  You can hook..."
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Steve Smith | Blog | 02 Feb 2012 02:25

Learning To Code with the Azure SDK - Show Me The Code

Steve Smith writes "....I’ve been working with Azure off and on since last summer, and like any new API or platform, there are hurdles involved with the learning curve.  This is especially true for pre-release software that is rapidly changing and of course has..."
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