The Morning Brew

Happy Thanksgiving Day to all my US based readers!

Software

• Early Christmas from Iron Languages and DLR - Harry Pierson highlights three significant release of Iron languages and the DLR - IronPython 2.0RC2, IronRuby 1.0 Alpha 2 and a new home for the DLR source code on Codeplex, including the initial 0.9 beta release of the DLR

Information

• Visualizing LINQ expressions in the debugger - Jimmy Bogard talks about Visualising Expressions, and looks at tools that help you to see what your expression looks like in the debugger.
• PTOM: Descriptive State Enumeration - Derick Bailey continues with the Novemeber Design Patterns topic at LosTechies with a look at the use of enumerations to track state, and follows up with a look at Mapping a State Pattern with NHibernate
• Object Oriented F# - Encapsulation with Object Expressions - Matthew Podwysocki continues his look into OO F# with a loot at the object expression F# feature, and why (in his opinion) this makes F# a better OO language than C#
• ASP.NET MVC on IIS 6 Walkthrough - Phil Haack shows how to setup ASP.NET MVC on IIS6 for both .mvc/.aspx extension URLs and extensionless URLs
• Isolation Syntax for VB.NET - Your comments please - Roy Osherove asks the community for comments on a proposed syntax for Typemock Isolator’s VB.NET syntax
• Addicted To MEF - Part 1 - Justin Etheredge starts a new series exploring the Managed Extensibility Framework which has just reached preview 3
• 10 Ways To Programaticly Shoot Yourself In The Foot - Part B - Shahar Y follows up from part A with a few more bad things that we as developers often do which makes our life harder later on,
• Yet Another Use of a Unit Test Framework - David Star talks about using Unit Testing Frameworks for more than your traditional unit testing.
• Everyday programming technique - C# Enum - Hugo Pereira covers a lot of ground on using Enums in your code, including some more advanced uses and some best practices advice.
• Unit Testing in JavaScript - Mark Levison rounds up the Javascript Unit Testing Frameworks and mocking tools that are about, looking at the pros and cons of each
• Generating Temporary Files - BlackWasp look at creating temporary files using random filenames in the correct location using some of the methods on the Path class.