The Morning Brew

Very busy at the moment, so the next few days of posts might be a little shorter than usual, normality should be resumed after the weekend.

Information

• PTOM: The Composite Design Pattern – Ray Houston continues on with the ‘Pablo’s Topic of the Month’ theme at Los Techies with a look at the composite design pattern.
• Pushing the Limits of Windows: Virtual Memory – Mark Russinovich gives a huge amount of information about Virtual Memory, and explores the extremes of Windows memory support.
• Vista Bridge on Code Gallery! – Kate Gregory announces the release of a samples library for the Vista Bridge which contains .NET support for some of the new Vista Features.
• Lazy loading BLOBS and the like in NHibernate – The NHibernate FAQ looks at the use of Blobs in objects retrieve from NHibernate.
• Data Parallelism in Functional Programming – Frank Thomsen looks at one of the often touted major benefits of functional programming, parallelism, looking at data structures that allow parallelism, and some methods of dividing the work up.
• Project Velocity – David Myers gives a nice summary of Project Velocity, Microsoft’s Distributed Cache, including the published time line for releases.
• Consuming Extension Methods in IronPython – Saveen Reddy looks at consuming extension methods from IronPython by using a number of attributes to allow your methods to be called.

Community

• Announcing: ALT.NET Online Open Meeting – Chad Myers announces a virtual Alt.NET meeting which would seem to be a great way to interact with the Alt.NET community around the world without increasing your carbon footprint. The only problem for me is the time and timezone as it starts at about 3am in the UK, but great if you are US based.

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