The Morning Brew

For the first time in a long time the preparation of the Morning Brew has been accompanied with coffee - happy days

Software

• GData .Net Assembly 1.1.4.0 Released. Now .Net Framework 2, VS (2005) Templates, and support for Google Contacts - Greg Duncan highlights the availability of a new GData library which has been updated for .NET 2.0 and also has support for the Google Contacts.

Information

• Foundations of Programming - pt 7 - Back to Basics: Memory - Karl Seguin takes an in-depth look at memory - interesting reading
• A First Look At Machine.Migrations - Jacob Lewallen introduces the Rails-like migrations that are a part of his ‘Machine’ utility project.
• Keyboard Jedi on Vista x64 - James Kovacs looks at how you can change the target platform without recompiling the assembly.
• Variable Scoping in Anonymous Delegates in C# - Rick Strahl writes about Scoping within delegates, and ends up becoming more comfortable with closures in Javascript as a side effect.
• A Smarter (or Pure Evil) ToString with Extension Methods - Scott Hanselman revisits an old ToString method for displaying more information about your objects.
• CHAPTER 4: Learning and adapting - Dan Bunea continues releasing chapters of his Agile mini-book. This part looks at learning
• Test Data Builders Refined - Jan Van Ryswyck takes a look at Test Data Builders (also know as Object Mothers), and how fluent interfaces can be used for building test data.
• Understanding when to use a Finalizer in your .NET class - The ASP.NET Debugging blog talks about one of the more difficult parts of .NET, Finalization
• ASP.NET Page Life Cycle - Vital information for anyone developing ASP.NET applications - if you are not already familiar with it you really should read up on it.
• NHibernate and Castle Active Record (Part 1) - Gabriel Schenker starts a series on using NHibernate and the Castle Project Active Record implementation
• The Prism team and how we develop - Glenn Block talks a little about how the distributed team who develop Prism work, and some of their practices.
• xUnit.net Goes 1.0 and Unit Testing F# - Matthew Podwysocki, now blogging over on CodeBetter.com, talks about xUnit 1.0 and F# unit testing
• Hack: Parallel MSBuilds from within the Visual Studio IDE - Scott Hanselman moves his attention to Visual Studio in his quest to make best use of multi-core processors