The Morning Brew

Software

• Faster apps for a faster web: introducing Speed Tracer - Google announce the release of Speed Tester, a Google Chrome browser extension which provides performance profiling for your web applications. This post includes a video introduction, and Ajaxian have a summary post here
• BrowserPlus Source Code Available Now on Github - The Yahoo! Developer Network Blog announces the release of the source to BrowserPlus, their framework for building browser agnostic Add-Ons by wrapping the different browser implementations with a common API
• Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool 2.1 - Now Available! - Nick MacKechnie highlights the release of the Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool 2.1, a tool which ensures that your virtual machines do not go without the regularly released security patches, making the use of Virtual Machines much safer

Information

• Organizing ASP.NET MVC solutions - Jimmy Bogard talks about how he organises his ASP.NET MVC Solutions, with a bare UI project containing only scripts , content , configuration and views, with all the code being held in a class library.
• SQL Server Date and Time fun from all around - Mladen Prajdić gathers together various posts from from the past to contribute to this weeks T-SQL Tuesday posting frenzy on Date and Time in SQL Server
• IronPython gets a long overdue website! - Jimmy Schementi highlights the new IronPython website at IronPython.net, and talks about the plans for the future of this site.
• Improve Your C#! Borrow from F#… - Dustin Campbell looks at a few instances of beautiful code in F# and looks at how you can achieve similar in C# using some of the more functional aspects of the C# language
• F# Operations on List - Marius Bancila reviews a number of common operations that you often need to perform on lists, and shows how these are achieved in F#
• How to setup a SQL Server alias and when is a connection alias is useful for developers? - Liam Westley talks about SQL Server connection aliases and how they are a very useful feature for developers who don’t want to be constantly updating connection strings when checking out / deploying codebases.
• LINQ query operators and null lists - Jimmy Bogard shares a simple extension method which makes it much easier to work with the nulls that can be introduced into other extension methods as the ‘this’ parameter due to the way extension methods are allowed to be called on null objects.
• 10 AppFabric/.Net 4 Virtual Labs now available - Greg Duncan highlights 10 new Azure AppFabric and .NET 4 virtual lab sessions which were available for attendees at PDC, and are now generally available.
• Writing Maintainable Automated Acceptance Tests. - ‘Uncle’ Bob Martin presents a short screen cast on using FitNesse to write Maintainable Automated Acceptance Tests, inspired by an article by Dale Emery who wrote about the same but implemented in Robot.
• Looking at Virtual Memory Usage - Brian Harry continues his series talking about Visual Studio performance with a look at how the Visual Studio team are considering the Virtual Memory use of Visual Studio when working on a number of sample projects, and the criteria for the product to be ready to ship with respect to Virtual Memory
• Writing a profiler for Silverlight applications - Part 2 - Gabriel Schenker continues his series on writing a profiler for Silverlgiht Applications with a look at the data to collect, method interception, handling multi-threaded applications and getting the profiling data back.
• ASP.NET MVC 2 Part 6 – Using Dependency Injection with ASP.NET MVC - Douglas Starnes continues a nice series of posts on ASP.NET MVC 2 with a look at dependency injection using Ninject with ASP.NET MVC. Be sure to check out his previous posts for more information on Ninject and the rest of his ASP.NET MVC 2 series
• Silverlight 3 - How to access peripherals - ‘ChristophDotNet’ takes a look at an implementation of how you can gain access to peripherals from Silverlight 3 Applications allowing Silverlight applications to better interact with their host machine, useful in Kiosk situations.
• Silverlight Advent Calendar: December 8th: Working with the clipboard in Silverlight 4 - Gill Cleeren is posting a daily Silverlight post as a part of an Advent Calendar series. Yesterdays ‘window’ was a look at Clipboard interaction in Silverlight 4
• That’s a WrapPanel and I am outta here… [A balanced WrapPanel implementation for Silverlight and WPF!] - ‘Delay’ shares an implementation of a Balanced Wrap Panel which evenly spaces each element added to the wrap panel to give a more pleasing display. Full source is provided, and this control works in both Silverlight and WPF applications

Community

• Webcast: Lighting Up the New Visual Studio 2010 Editor with Rich Extensions (Level 200) - Charlie Calvert highlights an interesting sounding web cast being held today 10:00am PST which will be looking at the extension capabilities of the new Visual Studio 2010 WPF Editor