The Morning Brew

All serious stuff in today’s Brew - despite it being April Fools Day

Software

• NHibernate 2.0 Alpha is out! - Lots of good stuff in this ‘many of us are using this in production’ alpha release of NHibernate 2.0

Information

• Setting up authentication in asp.net MVC - Justin Etheredge implements authentication using his own business objects and avoiding membership
• Open SUSE 1.9/Mono VMWare to Virtual PC - Greg Duncan highlights a step by step process by Jon Galloway to enable the running of the OpenSuse Mono VMWare image on Virtual PC
• Accessible UpdatePanel - Bertrand Le Roy shows how the ASP.NET Ajax Update Panel functionality can be made more accessible
• MVC: Locking the RouteCollection - Eilon Lipton looks at one specific locking problem that the ASP.NET MVC team encountered - includes some good stuff about the considerations you have to take when programming for lower trust environments.
• Tips on how to improve cohesion in a software design - Edge Pereira looks at a method for understanding the cohesion of your model.
• How to: Optimize the memory usage with strings - A detailed look at the things that you can do to manage String data in your applications better