The Morning Brew

Software

• A bit of help compiling your next .NET hosted programming language - Herman Venter announces the release by Microsoft Research of a library constructed from a collection of his bits of code to help writing compilers
• Announcing xunitcontrib 0.2 - Resharper 4.5 support - Matt announces the 0.2 release of xunitcontrib, a contributions library of extensions for xUnit. This release is predominantly to support the new ReSharper 4.5 release

Information

• Using jQuery Grid With ASP.NET MVC - Phil Haack runs through a demo of getting up and running with jQuery’s jqGrid using ASP.NET MVC, including fetching pages of data as JSON from the web server
• AutoMapper feature: interfaces and dynamic mapping - Jimmy Bogard talks about two of the key features of his latest AutoMapper release, explaining how and why AutoMapper supports mapping to interfaces and dynamic mapping.
• NHibernate Mapping - Concurrency - Ayende continues with his series of posts on NHibernate mapping with a look at the four key types of concurrency support NHibernate provides
• Language Envy - Juicy, a simple webserver - Sergio Pereira talks about how simple it is to implement a web server in Ruby, and sets about creating the same in .NET
• Programming Challenge! - Craig Murphy digs out a 20 year old programming problem from his past, and asks for solutions from his readers in a range of languages. A prize is being offered for the one Craig deems to be the best
• Silverlight Simple Animation - Charlie Calvert continues his series on Silverlight with a look at simple timer based animations
• Agile practices are not just about management. - Mike Hadlow talks about Agile Practices being more than simply a way of manging development, highlighting some key principles and concepts of agile development towards the end of the post
• Adaptive Rendering in ASP.NET MVC - Kazi Manzur Rashid looks at how ASP.NET MVC provides an easy means of rendering the same information in a range of different formats depending on need, allowing you to have easy JavaScript / No JavaScript support