The world still seems to be shaking after Friday’s big buyout attempt.

Software

SubSonic: 2.1 Beta Is Up - Rob Conery announces the latest beta - with plenty of new features outlined in the post, I won’t bother re-iterating them.

SQL Query Generator - First Release - A code generator to create a strongly typed version of a relational database. Also allows custom querying using a fluent interface to build the SQL

TypeMock Insulator 4.2 Beta Publicly Available - Paulo Morgado announces the public beta of Typemock/Insulator 4.2 (Update: 2008-02-04 15:30: Michal Geva from TypeMock has corrected me - The correct product name is TypeMock Isolator)

MS Deploy - New IIS Web Deployment Tool - Scott Hanselman introduces a new command line tool to deploy to the web.

Information

Custom Username and Password Authentication in WCF 3.5 - Keyvan Nayyeri covers another new WCF feautre, allowing you to create custom authentication in .NET 3.5

Parallel Collection Operations - A technique for performing an action on a collection - in parallel.

When string.ToLower() is Evil - A performance tip about case insensitive string comparisons.

(Semi) Practical IronRuby - A quick sample of what is possible with IronRuby, DSL’s and the DLR. Micheal’s ‘getting started’ article (linked from this one) is also worth reading.

Blazing fast business object filtering. - Filtering collections of objects using an Indexable collection to improve performance.

Versioning Databases – Change Scripts - First of three posts this weekend in K. Scott Allen’s short series on database versioning.

Versioning Databases – Views, Stored Procedures, and the Like - Drop and recreate is the simplest method - however watch out for security permissions on objects as they get lost when you drop.

Versioning Databases – Branching and Merging - The final part in this series by K. Scott Allen

Community

MIX08 - ScottGu drums up support for MIX08 in Vegas