The Morning Brew

A multitude of technical problems made preparing today’s edition more difficult than it should have – Looks like it might be one of those days.

Information

• ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 CodePlex Preview 1 available – The First Preview release of the forthcoming ASP.NET Ajax version 4 release has been made available on CodePlex
• NUnit: 2.4.8 Released – A bugfix release of the famous unit testing framework.

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• Distributed Caching – Strategies and Tips – Scott Watermasysk talks about distributed caching and shares some of the best practices he has picked up working with a distributed cache on Community Server
• Linq to NHibernate in 10 minutes – Matt Hinze examines Linq to NHibernate in the CodeCampServer project.
• No Slow Unit Tests with xUnit.net – Ade Miller shows how you can prevent slow unit tests from bogging your test run down with the use of the xUnit.NET StrictFact Attribute to enforce a timeout
• Unit Test Boundaries – Phil Haack talks about the single responsibility principle and how that should apply to unit testing
• MVC AJAX Support – Melvyn Harbour looks at the new Ajax functionality in the latest ASP.NET MVC preview release.
• Minimalist Coding Style – Mark Levison talks about some of his rules of programming
• Learn How to use NHibernate with the Summer of NHibernate Screencast Series – Scott Hanselman talks about screencasts for learning, and about NHibernate with reference to Stephen Bohlen’s ‘Summer of NHibernate Screencast Series’
• Thread Proxy Mediator Pattern – Michael Birken shows an implementation of a pattern to help with avoiding common GUI problems
• Introduction to Object-Oriented Javascript – A nice short introduction to a number of the more advanced Javascript programming techniques
• Name Your Threads – Daniel Moth encourages developers to name their threads to make debugging easier.

Community

• VBUG Manchester: Where’s my data? An intro to Spatial Queries in SQL Srv 08 – Tommorrow’s VBUG Manchester event should be interesting – Colin Angus MacKay will be talking about the new spatial features of SQL Server 2008

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I think the summer holiday season is starting to take hold – the .NET world seems a little quiet this week

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• Tips to Write a Good Bug Report – Its always useful for developers to have one of these posts on hand to use as a ‘here is how it should be done’ for people submitting bug reports.
• Skip lists are fascinating! – Igor Ostrovsky takes a look at a list data structure known as Skip Lists – interesting reading
• Design and Implementation of an Attribute-Driven, Caching Data Abstraction Layer. – A long and detailed Code Project article discussion an attribute-driven data abstraction layer with multi database support, intelligent caching, transparent encryption, multi-property sorting, property change tracking, etc.
• Sneak peeks into the new F# project system, part one – Looks like F# is getting better/more familiar Visual Studio integration in the next major release.
• Mocking dilemma – Davy Brion poses a question about mocking a particular abstract class and method set up – some interesting comments.
• Unstable code – Ayende has a series of posts on Unstable Code this morning – I’m not going to link to them all, but this appears to be the start of them. As usual lots of interest in the comments too.
• The Weekly Source Code 30 – Spark and NHaml – Crazy ASP.NET MVC ViewEngines – Scott Hanselman looks at two alternative ASP.NET MVC view engines in this weeks post in his Weekly Source Code series.
• ADO.Net Data Services with NHibernate – Ayende highlights some work by Shawn Wildermuth, who has implemented IUpdatable in Linq to NHibernate

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The Morning Brew should be back to normal this week – being at home makes putting this together a lot easier.

Software

• Announcing IronEditor – An Editor for IronRuby, IronPython and other DLR languages – Ben Hall announces the release of Build 1.0.0.46 of his Editor for DLR based languages. This is an early preview of what is to come, and Ben clearly states that this release is purely part of his release early and often strategy to get some feedback.
• Abidar 1.0 Beta 1 – Keyvan Nayyeri gives the low down on his new task scheduler system developed with Dave Burke which originated as a series of blog posts. The Code and binary release of this beta is on CodePlex.
• Release: LinqToWMI Release 0.3 – LinqToWMI 0.3 is released. This is an updated version (to .NET 3.5) of some original work by Emile Bosch, allowing you to perform LINQ queries on all the information exposed by WMI.

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• StructureMap: Medium-level Usage Scenarios – Chad Myers moves on to the intermediate level features of Structure Map
• IronRuby With ASP.NET MVC Working Prototype – Phil Haack gets the ASP.NET MVC with IronRuby prototype working again for Preview 4 of ASP.NET MVC
• Foundations of Programming – Learning Application – Karl Seguin announces the release of a Learning Application to go along with his Foundations Of Programming E-book.
• Distributed in memory cache / storage – Ayende begins a mini series on Caching / Distributed Hash Tables. In this part he looks at the caching API, and the differences between Storage and Caching.
• Patterns for using distributed hash tables: Groups – Ayende looks at the idea of grouping data together in the cache/distributed hash table to help avoid Select N+1 behaviour.
• Patterns for using distributed hash tables: Locking – Ayende continues his series on Distributed Hash tables with a look at the locking considerations
• Exposing Custom Performance Counters in .NET – Sasha Goldshtein looks at custom performance counters, and offers some rough sample code showing how you can implement them in your applications.
• Customizing csproj files to autogenerate AssemblyInfo.cs – Michal Dabrowski shows how you can have your AssemblyInfo.cs file auto generated using MSBuild.
• Expressions and Lambdas – Jimmy Bogard looks at the subtle differences between Lambdas and expressions.
• Adding OpenID to your web site in conjunction with ASP.NET Membership – Dan Hounshell takes a step by step look at what is requried to get ASP.NET Membership and OpenID playing together.
• Extension Method + LINQ + Interface = Reusable Queries – Mike Hadlow looks at combining Interfaces with extension methods and Linqto create some useful methods on types for querying his objects.
• Announcing SecureDeveloper.com – Joe Stagner announces a new development security related blog

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