Rob Janssen (RobIII)

LinkedIn – Good or Bad?

I have read a couple of blog posts about LinkedIn recently. “Is LinkedIn Cheating Employers and Job Seekers Alike?” is criticizing LinkedIn for charging job seekers to appear “at the top of the list” when applying for a job.

7 Ways More Methods Can Improve Your Program

A lot of code I come across consists of relatively few, but long, methods. The code does what it is supposed to do. However, it could be improved a lot.

Great Programmers Write Debuggable Code

All programs need some form of logging built in to them, so we can observe what it is doing. This is especially important when things go wrong.

Making a collection immutable

A friend recently asked for suggestions about creating a class that is mutable up to a point (while it’s being constructed), and then immutable once clients begin to use it. His solution was to add a flag that could be set to make the thing read-only.

Progressive Enhancement: Zed’s Dead, Baby

A few days ago, Daniel Mall launched a snarky tumblr called Sigh, JavaScript. I was reminded of law enforcement agencies that release a “wall of shame” of men who solicit prostitutes.

6 Months with C#

I have been writing C# for more than half a year now. I think it might be a good time for me to stop and think about what I have experienced with C#.

An Overview of Project Katana

The ASP.NET Framework has been around for over ten years, and the platform has enabled the development of countless Web sites and services. As Web application development strategies have evolved, the framework has been able to evolve in step with technologies like ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Web API.

The SCUMM Diary: Stories behind one of the greatest game engines ever made

This article is being highlighted on Gamasutra as one of the best stories of 2013. SCUMM might "just" be a video game engine -- but it's a video game engine that can elicit emotions nearly as strong as the games that it powers.

The Katana Project - OWIN for ASP.NET

Join your guides Brady Gaster and Cory Fowler as they talk to the product teams in Redmond as well as the web community. In this episode, Brady and Cory talk to Howard Dierking about the Katana Project. Katana, as Howard explains, is how developers can do OWIN hosting within ASP.NET.

But what does it all mean?

This year before NDC, I wrote an article for the conference edition of "The Developer" magazine. Follow that link to find the article in all its illustrated glory (along with many other fine articles, of course) – or read on for just the text.