The Morning Brew

Software

• Cacheman - a fast distributed hashtable for Windows - Sriram Krishnan announces Cacheman, a MemCached style out of process distributed cache
• DotNetOpenId 0.1.1 has been released - David Christiansen tells of the latest release of this Open ID library

Information

• Notification Services in SQL Server 2008 - Not so much… (Notification Services are gone from SQL Server 2008. Dead, gone, no more, say goodbye, etc, etc) - Greg Duncan gathers the news on the demise of Notification Services - looks like Reporting services is going to provide that functionality from now on!
• SQL Cache Dependencies - Greg Low talks about cache invalidation for the ASP.NET Cache
• Just Do it! Parallel.Do in ParallelFX - Using ParallelFX to gain performance boosts for sorting and making web service calls. There seems to be real advantages in doing this stuff!
• High-Performance Stopwatch - I usually find the built in StopWatch sufficient, however this looks like a useful tip for when it isn’t
• Writing less code: The "else" statement - A very simple code sample sparks some interesting debate in the comments. I personally only like 1 return statement per method, although for very short methods like this it seems fine
• Profiling ASP.NET Applications Running on IIS with NCover - The folks over at NCover show how you can use Selenium to test your ASP.NET site and obtain code coverage reports using NCover
• .NET 3.5 Brings BREAKING Changes to ThreadPool - Michael C. Kennedy warns of some potentially breaking changes in the ThreadPool
• TDD Considered Harmful? - The Test Driven Development (TDD) vs Plain Old Unit Tests (POUT) debate rages on. This article discusses the subversion of ‘unit testing’ resources into Test Driven Development resources