The Morning Brew

Another shorter than usual post - normal service will be resumed at the end of the week.

Software

• IronPython 1.1.2 RC - Harry Pierson has the lowdown on a minor release of IronPython which contains some backported bug fixes.
• NHibernate 2.0 Beta 2 Released - I’m a little late picking this one up, but Symon Rottem has noticed, and now so have I

Information

• Design Patterns - Command Pattern - David Cumps continues his series on Design Patterns with a look at the Command Pattern. Check David’s previous posts too if you haven’t already for a tour of a number of other design patterns.
• New Modules for IIS7: Application Request Routing - Proxy and Load Balancing Module - Scott Hanselman looks at some of the new and exciting developments occurring on the IIS7 platform.
• West Wind Ajax Toolkit updated - Rick Strahl announces the latest release (1.90) of his AJAX toolkit, with a number of improvements over previous versions.
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #19 – Use the nVelocity View Engine - Stephen Walther shows how in just 6 steps you can be up and running with an alternative view engine in ASP.NET MVC
• Configuration via Typemock Interception - Roy Osherove (with his TypeMock hat on) shows how TypeMock can be used to gather configuration using code, and save this information away for later use.
• Optimizing LINQ Queries - K. Scott Allen looks at optimising LINQ Code, and talks about the dangers of doing too much optimisation.
• Getting IronRuby Up and Running - Justin Etheredge walks through the steps of getting IronRuby set up and running in this step by step screenshot rich article.
• Combinatorial Tests and Splitting Context From Specification - Chris Bilson looks at combinatorial tests, which are similar to RowTests except that they allow you to obtain the values from a factory method

Community

• Architecture Journal Issue 17 - Call for Papers - Simon Guest highlights the call for papers for the Architects Journal isue 17. The theme of the issue is Distributed Computing.