Markus Tamm

WPF

• XAML Attributes on Separate Lines (Christopher Bennage)

.NET

• Small LINQ Trick for Converting List to String Text List (Peter Kellner)
• C#: Overcomplicating with LINQ (Mark Needham)
• Noisy code does not equal clean code (Derik Whittaker)

Agile

• Starting an Agile Project within a Traditional Framework (Mike Griffiths)
• What is the big picture? (Simon Brown)
• Pair Programming: In interviews (Mark Needham)

Career

• The One Deadly Sin of Changing Habits (Leo Babauta)
• Did Your Boss Thank You For Coding Yourself to Death? (Alan Skorkin)

.NET

• WiX 3 Tutorial: Generating file/directory fragments with Heat.exe (Mladen Prajdic)

Agile

• TDD Kata (Roy Osherove)
• TDD Kata (Andrew Woodward)
• Refactoring: Small steps to pull out responsibilities (Mark Needham)
• How Short Can Your Iterations Be? (Johanna Rothman)

Career

• Are Your Working Hours Jeopardizing Your Productivity? (James Chartrand)
• Improved Productivity: A 12-Step Program (Amber Singleton Riviere)
• Ways to Distinguish Yourself #209 – Increase granularity of your portable skills (Rajesh Setty)

Misc

• Branching Strategies: When To Branch And Merge (derick.bailey)
• Branching Strategies: The Cost Of Branching And Merging (derick.bailey)

WPF

• Getting Started with WPF 4: Button Controls Part 1 – The Button is a Content Control
• Getting Started with WPF : Button Control Part 2 – Basic Styling
• Getting Started with WPF : Hello World in multiple flavors
• Binding the RelativeSource
• Three Ways To Create Dynamic Menus

.NET

• An Overview Of System.Collections.Generic
• Slaying relational dragons

Agile

• Distributed Teams: Build Trust through Early Progress
• Agile Quick Links #9
• Kanban with David Anderson

SoftSkills

• OVERNIGHT SUCCESS, YEAR THREE
• Three D’s for Motivation – Direction, Decision, and Dedication
• Freewriting – a method for unblocking creativity
• Mindfulness makes you more productive
• How to Improve Your Presentation Skills
• The One Skill You Need To Master To Succeed And Grow As A Developer

Misc

• ‘Good’ Beats ‘Innovative’ Nearly Every Time
• 500+ Colours
• The Non-Programming Programmer

WPF

• Inversion of Control (IOC) with XAML (Rob Relyea)

.NET

• Hey, NHibernate give me back my milliseconds (Derik Whittaker)
• FluentNHibernate And NHibernate.Linq (Charles Chen)
• StructureMap 2.6 (and 2.5.4) is Released! (Jeremy D. Miller)
• NHibernate Schema Tool (SchemaExport, SchemaUpdate) (.NET Nomad)
• Setting Up MVC Using StructureMap, Moq and NUnit…Quickly (Garry Pilkington)

Career / Softskills

• The Best Writing Advice. Ever. (Darren Rowse)
• Don’t Strive for Perfection (Mike Brown)
• Thinking Fearlessly (Kevin Roberts)

Misc

• JetBrains Web IDE (Elegant Code)

Programming

• Pair Programming with Screen
• Effective Logging
• What happens behind the scenes: NHibernate, Linq to SQL, Entity Framework scenario analysis
• WiX 3 Tutorial: Solution/Project structure and Dev resources
• WiX 3 Tutorial: Understanding main WXS and WXI file
• Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
• Fun and Games with NHibernate and String Keys

Softskills

• How to keep yourself interested as a developer.
• 10 Ways to Go from Good to Great
• Know Your Rules to Be Successful
• 5 Ways to Manage Distractions for Increased Productivity

Scrum

• Separate Estimating from Committing
• Product Owners in Practice

WPF

• Specifying the Selection Color, Content Alignment, and Background Color for items in a ListBox
• Custom ListBox Layout in WPF
• Accessing Strings from Resource File in XAML markup
• WPF XAML MenuItem Styles
• Pack URIs in Windows Presentation Foundation
• WPF Control Extensions with Attached Properties
• How can I set multiple styles in WPF?
• BindingExpressions
• WPF Basics – Layout Panels
• WPF – The BasedOn Style Property
• WPF Binding Modes
• WPF Apps With The Model-View-ViewModel Design Patter
• Model-View-ViewModel Pattern
• Hidden features of WPF and XAML
• WPF Drop-Shadows on The Cheap

Programming Skills

• 31 Days of Refactoring
• Gang of Four Design Patterns

Scrum

• Tests are not ‘Tasks’ you put on a backlog…
• ScrumBut
• A Day in the Life of a Scrum Team

General

• Compiling Mapping using Fluent NHibernate
• 101 LINQ Samples
• Open Generic Types in StructureMap
• Advanced StructureMap: Diagnosing problems

Softskills

• Deconstructing Creativity: The 4 Roles You Need to Play to be Fully Creative
• Stillness is a Powerful Action

Starting with posting some useful links, this Blog gonna be my journal about stuff I learned / discovered during my work as developer while dealing with C#, WPF and Scrum.

Some words about me. I’m a thirty years old C# developer from Hannover, Germany. I had an three year education as digital media designer with focus on web development with PHP, JavaScript and MySQL.

With help of Charles Petzholds “Programming in the Key of C#” book I did some self-education to become a C# developer with .NET Framework and Visual Studio back in 2004. Until 2009 I worked on a digital signage solution with an ASP.NET AJAX web frontend. This was an important step away from “scripting” over to programming. With my hands on Martin Fowlers “Refactoring“, Kent Becks “Extreme Programming (XP)” and “Design patterns” I started my career as application developer.

Back in 2008 the company I worked for started to do Scrum and I loved it from day one. It goes hand in hand with the agile approach from XP.

In the late 2009 I moved on to working with WPF. No more optimization for different web browser but a lot of new pitfalls from WPF.

And here we go. I decided to share my daily WPF grind and setup this blog.

Markus Tamm