The Morning Brew

The end of another week - and the start of a long weekend here in the UK - what this means for the Morning Brew is a 3 day break, with the next instalment on Tuesday morning. Have a good weekend everyone.

Software

• Paint.NET v3.31 is now available! - The Paint.NET team release a bug fix release, including new support for the Window Clippings screen capture tool
• Silverlight: The First Rich Text Editor - An article detailing the development of the first SilverLight Rich Text Editor - released code on CodePlex (linked in the article)

Information

• Side Effecting Functions are Code Smells - Matthew Podwysocki looks at non-pure functions, why he considers them to be a code smell, and how Design By Contract and Spec# can help.
• Side Effecting Functions Are Code Smells Revisited - Matthew Podwysocki follows up he earlier post with some more information, including a discussion of Command Query Separation
• Grrr…poor use of singletons and a very cool Generic Singleton pattern! - Scott Galloway looks at the singleton pattern, and explains why there is no reason to implement it badly
• Dynamic Data and 3rd party o/r mappers is a fact - Frans Bouma talks about some excellent news about Dynamic Data for anyone who is already invested with other O/R Mappers
• New "Level 200" Threading and Synchronization Article - Greg Duncan highlights a good introductory article on Threading and Synchronisation.
• MVC Storefront, Part 7: Helpers and Routing - Rob Conery continues his ASP.NET MVC Screencast series. In this part Rob continues with his UI and looks into Routing, discussing this with Scott Hanselman
• Writing a Simple Role Playing Game with C# .NET and the State Design Pattern - A look at using patterns in the context of creating a (very) simple role playing game.
• Using NHibernate (years after I should have been) - Ryan Lanciaux give a nice introduction to NHibernate, having recently adopted its use
• Mocks - It’s A Question Of When - K. Scott Allen looks at how to decide when to use mock objects, and answers a few other common questions that arise from the though of using mock objects.