The Morning Brew

I had a very enjoyable evening at the Manchester ‘Heros Happen Here’ Community Launch event last night - my thanks to all those involved in setting up and running it.

Software

• Argotic Syndication Framework - Release - The 2008.0.0.0 release of this Syndication framework has been released - new features include support for Attention Profiling Markup Language (APML) 0.6, Web Log Markup Language 2.0 (BlogML) and Microsoft Feed Sync 1.0
• Zeta Resource Editor - This string resource editor gets an update - now including projects and a nice installer.
• jQuery for ASP.NET MVC preview 2 - Chris van de Steeg has released an updated release of his jQueryMvc project to support the latest preview release - also includes a switch to using the Unity IOC framework

Information

• Stop creating custom delegate types - Jimmy Bogard puts out a plea for developers to stop creating their own delegate types all the time and embrace the Action and Func delegates.
• PostSharp and iterator blocks - a beautiful combination - Jon Skeet takes a look at AOP using PostSharp
• Using jQuery to Consume ASP.NET JSON Web Services - An interesting article that shows how you can make jQuery satisfy the ASP.Net security requirements for calling JSON serialised web services
• ASP.NET MVC Action Filter - Caching and Compression - Kazi Manzur Rashid takes a look at compression and caching in ASP.NEt MVC applications, showing the effects of these settings on the data transferred between you app and the client.
• Expression Trees: Why LINQ to SQL is Better than NHibernate - Lee Richardson takes a look at Expression Trees in Linq - I’m not so sure about the comparison to NHibernate though
• Real Ultimate Power : Dependency Injection with Ninject - Ryan Lanciaux takes a brief look at one of the less well known dependency injection frameworks - Ninject.
• Discovering Windows PowerShell - Alex Mueller takes a first look at PowerShell with some examples
• WPF 3D : Part 1 of n - Sacha Barber starts a new WPF series, this time looking at 3D WPF
• IoC and Unity - Configuration Changes for the Better - Matthew Podwysocki continues his series by looking at the configuration changes in the latest Unity Drop release