Software
- Cacheman – a fast distributed hashtable for Windows – Sriram Krishnan announces Cacheman, a MemCached style out of process distributed cache
- DotNetOpenId 0.1.1 has been released – David Christiansen tells of the latest release of this Open ID library
Information
- Notification Services in SQL Server 2008 – Not so much… (Notification Services are gone from SQL Server 2008. Dead, gone, no more, say goodbye, etc, etc) – Greg Duncan gathers the news on the demise of Notification Services – looks like Reporting services is going to provide that functionality from now on!
- SQL Cache Dependencies – Greg Low talks about cache invalidation for the ASP.NET Cache
- Just Do it! Parallel.Do in ParallelFX – Using ParallelFX to gain performance boosts for sorting and making web service calls. There seems to be real advantages in doing this stuff!
- High-Performance Stopwatch – I usually find the built in StopWatch sufficient, however this looks like a useful tip for when it isn’t
- Writing less code: The "else" statement – A very simple code sample sparks some interesting debate in the comments. I personally only like 1 return statement per method, although for very short methods like this it seems fine
- Profiling ASP.NET Applications Running on IIS with NCover – The folks over at NCover show how you can use Selenium to test your ASP.NET site and obtain code coverage reports using NCover
- .NET 3.5 Brings BREAKING Changes to ThreadPool – Michael C. Kennedy warns of some potentially breaking changes in the ThreadPool
- TDD Considered Harmful? – The Test Driven Development (TDD) vs Plain Old Unit Tests (POUT) debate rages on. This article discusses the subversion of ‘unit testing’ resources into Test Driven Development resources