The Morning Brew

Spent a while last night wrestling with OAuth integration in a personal project – does anyone know of a good/nice .NET library that caters for desktop applications?

Software

• Microsoft Releases Updated neXpert 1.1 Add-on for Fiddler (Web Debugging Proxy) – Blake Handler highlights the release of an updated neXpert, a web performance tool which runs inside the Fiddler Debuging proxy to help identify performance problems with your web sites/apps. This release includes a number of enhancements and bugfixes

Information

• Immutable vs. Mutable Collection Performance – Jared Parsons turns his attentions to the differences between the performance of Immutable and Mutable collections, testing them both in a number of common scenarios
• Designing Rhino DHT – A fault tolerant, dynamically distributed, hash table – Ayende discusses the potential design for Rhino DHT to support o dynamically distributed network of nodes providing the hash table
• Simple example of using a Subquery in NHibernate when using ICriteria – Derik Whittaker investigates sub queries in NHibernate when using ICritieria, with the aim of making NHibernate run the same query as you would write in standard TSQL
• Castle NHibernate Facility- Configuration – Tuna Toksoz explores the Castle Facility support for NHibernate which allows NHibernate to interact nicely with various parts of the Castle stack.
• DDD: Only for complex projects? – Mark Needham questions the idea that Domain Driven Design is only needed for complex projects with a look at what DDD practices bring to all projects
• Do We Create Type Systems In Dynamic Languages? – Justin Etheredge asks if we actually just end up emulating a type system when working with dynamic languages by applying checking and unit tests
• Good Names – Eric Lippert talks about naming conventions and gives some rules you can use to help come up with good names for your public types, methods and members
• How An ASP.NET DataBind Can Cause A Memory Leak – Kristof Rennen talks about how he ran into memory leakage problems when utilising ASP.NET Databind functionality with a specific control structure
• The ‘Do Not Disturb’ Hat? – Phil Factor talks about the importance of uninterupted time for a developer to be truly productive, and how the standard office environment is bad at providing this

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