The Morning Brew

It looks like the snow we had yesterday here in Liverpool is making a hasty escape now - I wonder if we will get any more today.

Software

• SQL Server 2008 Books Online update, January 2009, is available - Aaron Bertrand highlights the availability of updated SQL Server Books On-line for SQL Server 2008.

Information

• NHibernate - Opinionated Style - Matt Freeman looks at some of the enforce style that NHibernate brings to your code, and talks about how you can make these conventions nicer.
• Understanding Code: Static vs Dynamic Dependencies - Patrick Smacchia talks about the differences between static and dynamic dependencies in your code, looking at when and why you care about each type.
• Funq: screencast series on how to building a DI container using TDD - Daniel Cazzulino shares a series of screen casts about the building of Funq, a simple Dependency Injection Framework constructed using Test Driven Development
• Crafting wicked domain models with Components in DDD - Jimmy Boggard talks about Domain Driven Design and how you can make great software components if you remember that there are a whole world of patterns and practices available to you for use in the domain model. Jimmy then goes on to show how Composition over Inheritance helped him out on a project.
• Read the Diffs - Eric Sink gives some very good advice for any developer working on a project with other developers - look into the code being committed by your collegues as you may learn something from it.
• C#: Refactoring to functional collection parameters - Mark Needham shows some of the nice collection refactorings that are possible in C#3
• Getting Familiar With Your Basic .NET Delegates - Brian Di Croce explores, with simple examples, the common .NET Delegates, Action<T>, Comparison<T>, Converter<TInput, TOutput> and Predicate<T>
• Create a Strongly Typed CRUD UI With ASP.Net MVC RC - Guy Burstein shows how to quickly and simply create standard Create Read Update Delete functionality for strongly typed entities using the ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate.
• WPF XAML Data Binding Cheat Sheet - Nir Dobovizki shares a draft edition of a WPF databinding cheat sheet inspired by a StackOverflow question.
• A .NET Open Source Project Retrospective: Json.NET - James Newton-King carries out a nice retrospective style review of his open source project, Json.NET, shareing what he feels are its successes and failures, along with some development statistics.
• Fluent NHibernate: Configuring your application - James Gregory continues his series of posts on Fluent NHibernate with a look at creating the configuration in a number of different cases depending on the types of mapping used, etc.
• Making the simplest of domainmodels can be harder than you think - ‘Chrissie1′ explores the construction of a simple Domain Model for a Person with test driven practices, and shows that even somthing as simple as this example is not always so simple to code.
• DDD7 Session Video – Microsoft Pex – The future on unit testing? - Ben Hall shares the video footage of his PEX talk taken at the DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper 7 conference in November. This was one of the sessions I didn’t get to see ‘in the flesh’, so I’m looking forward to seeing the video.

Community

• European Virtual ALT.NET Meeting Rescheduled - Following some technical problems sharing audio yeaterday evening, the Virtual Alt.Net Meeting has been re-scheduled for Monday 9th February 2009 19:00 GMT