The Morning Brew

Back in the UK again following my trip to Romania, and still have a huge list of posts to read through. Today’s edition is not comprehensive, but you can look forward to a large catchup post either Sunday or Monday. Looking forward to DDD 7 tomorrow – you you spot me there come over and say hello.

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• Microsoft Sues to Defend Visual Studio Users – Yet another good reason why software patents are a bad idea…
• [ANN] Programming Asp.Net MVC by O’Reilly – Derik Whittaker announces that he, along with fellow Devlicio.us blogger Tim Barcz and Chris Sutton will be collaborating on a new book on ASP.NET MVC. Congratulations guys, and I look forward to seeing some sneak peeks at the content over the coming months via your blogs.
• Anatomy of a Subtle JSON Vulnerability – Phil Haack looks at a Javascript Vulnerability explaining how it actually works
• So, what’s new in the CLR 4.0 GC? – Maoni talks about some of the changes and features of the Garbage Collector in the 4.0 CLR
• WPF and "Twistori": Part 1 – Mike Taulty has a 7 part series of posts about building a WPF based application which consumes the Twitter API. I’ve only read a couple of parts of this so far, but looks interesting this far.
• Debugging Parallel Applications with VS2010 – Daniel Moth gives a short screen cast looking at two of the new debugging features of Visual Studio 2010 – Parallel Tasks and Parallel Stacks.
• An easy and efficient way to improve .NET code performances – Patrick Smacchia talks about a couple of simple things which you can do to improve the performance of your code, like switching from foreach to for loops, etc, complete with some details of the testing methodology used.
• PTOM: Command and Conquer Your UI Coupling Problems – Derick Bailey joins in the LostTechies post series on Patterns, with a look at the command pattern
• Functionally dynamic? – Jimmy Bogard starts playing with some functional programming concepts in C#
• "Subsonic" for Services found: Subsonic 3 + ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria) – Jay Kimble looks at combining Subsonic and Ado.Net Data Services (formerly known as Astoria) to provide a very simple solution for exposing data as a service. Sample code included
• Copenhagen C# talk videos now up – Jon Skeet highlights the availability of videos of his recent talk on C#
• Do you have to know English to be a Programmer? – Scott Hanselman asks an interesting question, and unsurprisingly gets a lot of responses – all the programmers I know speak English to some degree (far better than I speak any other language, that’s for sure), so I have no real frame of reference on this. That said, I do remember seeing a release announcement for VS2008 in Russian only a few weeks back, so if you had to wait for that you’d be a bit behind the curve.

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• Where TDD fails for me – Jimmy Bogard talks about some of his current problem areas when working in a test driven way.
• Multi-tenancy part 1: Strategy. – Mike Hadlow talks about Multi-Tenancy in Web applications, and considers what strategy will work well for his ECommerce project. Mike and I talked at length about this subject at the UK Alt.Net conference, and I’m really looking forward to seeing how he goes about doing it – can’t wait for part 2.
• Introducing IronPython – Harry Pierson looks at IronPython in this introductory article, looking at how it differs from C# and VB.NET and yet still allows you to make good use of your .NET experience.
• XML Documentation File For Your .Net Project – It’s Important – Shahar Y reminds us about the XML Documentation Generation in Visual Studio and how that helps with working with the code in the IDE.
• Spike Code and Source Control – K. Scott Allen makes some good sense about not throwing away any code by keeping all your spike code in source code control for a number of very good reasons
• Emergent Complexity – Justin Etheredge talks about complexity in code due to interactions between classes, in the hopes of making people consider complexity when writing their applications
• Constructors and Inheritance – Why is this still so painful? – Tom Hollander talks about the pain points of having lots of constructors that you also want in implemented in subclasses

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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.

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• 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.

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• 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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