The Morning Brew

Software

• NHibernate Profiler v1.0 Released – Ayende announces the official release of Version 1.0 of the NHibernate Profiler, a great tool for seeing what is going on under the covers of your NHibernate applications.
• YouCube 3.0 (Chromium WebBrowser) – Source Code – Chris Cavanagh announces the availability of the source code for the WPFChromium WebBrowser project, a native WPF web browser control which behaves well with other parts of a WPF UI
• JsMockito – Simple & Better Javascript Mocking – Chris Leishman shares JsMockito a Javascript mocking framework which is heavily inspired by the way Mockito works in the Java world

Information

• One Thing: Extract till you Drop. – Uncle Bob Martin shares some thoughts on extracting methods and simplifying functions so they do one thing only, an suggests that we should always take extract method as far as possible.
• PostSharp – Generic constraints for enums and delegates – Gael Fraiteur of the PostSharp team follows on from Jon Skeet’s post about generic constraints for enums and delegates with a look at implementing this functionality using PostSharp
• What The CodePlex Foundation Means To The .NET OSS Developer – Phil Haack talks about the newly formed CodePlex Foundation, his role as an advisor to the board, and the first 100 days, with some more details in his followup post More On The CodePlex Foundation. Jeremy D. Miller shares his thoughts in his post Some quick thoughts about the new Codeplex OSS initiative as does Scott Belware in Analysis: CodePlex Foundation – The Terms of Mutual Surrender
• Rhino Mocks, Github & Continuous Integration Builds – Ayende has moved the source code control and CI for the Rhino Mocks project to GitHub, with the output of the CI builds being distributed on builds.hibernatingrhinos.com
• Code Contracts – Granville Barnett looks at implementing code contracts using the Spec# and the .NET Code Contracts functionality which is shipping with .NET 4.0 and C++ annotations, providing worked examples of each of the different types of contract
• ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 Preview 5 available – Fredrik Normén talks about some of the new features and changes made in the latest preview release of the ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 library
• Shrinkr – Url Shrinking Service Developed with Entity Framework 4.0, Unity, ASP.NET MVC And jQuery (Part 2) – Kazi Manzur Rashid continues with his series on building a URL shortening service using ASP.NET MVC and JQuery with a look at mapping teh domain model to the database using the entity framework
• Taming Your Sequence’s Side-Effects Through IEnumerable.Let – Bart De Smet explores the concept of a functional style let feature which allows you to reduce the impact of side-effects when working with lazy and eager evaluations of enumerable collections
• Unit Testing – Do Repeat Yourself – Karl Seguin talks about the DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) principle, and how it doesn’t apply as strongly in test code in order to make the tests easier to follow.
• BDD from scratch – Build your own framework (Part 2) – Garry Shutler continues his series of posts on building a BDD framework using standard unit testing frameworks. In this part Garry focuses on the place of mocks in the framework
• Using Exception.Data to Append Extra Data to Your Exception – Dave Schinkel highlights the Exception.Data property which allows you to attach data to be included with the error you are throwing allowing you to get better error reports

Community

• SCOTT GUTHRIE COMES TO DUBLIN! – Scott Guthrie is on tour at the end of the month and will be in Dublin on the 28th September for an afternoon of ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio 2010 and Silverlight. Expect other community events featuring The Gu to be announced this week in other parts of the UK
• VBUG London: An Introduction to Mono – Toby Henderson will be speaking at VBUG London on the 6th October covering the Mono Platform and the supporting technologies which allow you to write .NET code to run almost anywhere
• Welcome to the Alternative Network Group – The Alternative Network Group formed from the AltNetBeers and AltNetWorkshop events has its new website launched, with details of the forthcoming events such as this weeks AltNetBeers event wtih Udi Dahan, the Scotish AltNetBeers event later this month, and the first Workshop event delivered by Roy Osherove on TDD.

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