The Morning Brew

Software

• Introducing Project Codename "Velocity" - Microsoft make a significant announcement at TechEd - they are about to enter the distributed cache market with their latest product, codenamed Velocity. From what I’m reading this is a very memcached type of implementation, and the first CTP is already released - I will be checking that out real soon!
• Prism: New drop published - Ezequiel Jadib announces the availability of the latest drop of Prism - the composite WPF application block from the Patterns and Practices team.
• Windows Installer 4.5 is now available! - The Windows Installer Team announce the final release of Windows Installer 4.5 with a number of new and improved features - more details in their post behind the link.
• ReSharper 4.0 Release Candidate - The JetBrains folks have released the Release Candidate for version 4 of their IDE enhancement tool

Information

• Reviewing Mass Transit - Ayende reviews Mass Transit - a lean service bus implementation, much like NServiceBus. Its very interesting to see how someone else evaluates software, and Ayende provides an interesting commentary.
• MVC Storefront: Dependency Injection - Rob Conery continues his series on constructing an online store using ASP.NET MVC. This part is a long one, and looks at implementing the dependency injection portion of the system, using Structure Map. I’m looking forward to having the time to watch this one (a train journey later in the week should provide that opportunity)
• SOA: Making the Paradigm Shift Part 4 of N ROUGH DRAFT - Sam Gentile continues his series on SOA with a draft release of part 4. In this part he looks at the Four (+ a few) Tenets of SOA, what s service is, and a number of architectural patterns for creating services.
• Language Oriented Programming and Functional Unit Testing in F# - Matthew Podwysocki takes a look at DSLs and language oriented programming in F#
• Order of Construction - Jason Crease looks at the confusing issue of constructor order in an inheritance structure - a subject that often catches developers out.
• TechEd 2008 Keynote Summary - Jon Galloway provides a nice summery of the goings on at the TechEd keynote.
• Learning WPF with BabySmash - Configuration with DataBinding - Scott Hanselman continues his voyage of exploration into WPF, with a look at doing teh configuration badly, and also improved ways of doing it.
• "Try IronRuby" updated - The IronRuby Web Shell has been updated to the r113 Iron Ruby Engine.
• Using Postsharp for solving the inexisting multi-inheritance problem - An interesting article on simulating multiple inheritance using Aspect Oriented Programming techniques to automatically create the interfaces and inherited functionality at compile time.