The Morning Brew #108
Posted by Chris Alcock on Thursday 5th June 2008 at 06:22 am | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- Second Firefox 3 Release Candidate now available for download – Mozilla release their second Release Candidate of Firefox 3
Information
- Setting Up Velocity (Distributed Cache) – Scott Watermasysk goes through the process of setting up and starting work with Velocity, the newly announced distributed cache from Microsoft.
- Fun with the ResourceReader – Nikolai Tillmann uses Pex to test a complicated component – the ResourceReader – in this guide with plenty of screen shots and sample code.
- Getting Started with Migrator.Net and database refactorings – Sean Chambers talks about this castle project spin off which gives Ruby on Rails like Migrations which can target many different database backends to the .NET environment
- Failures of aimless large-scale refactorings – Jimmy Bogard talks about ways of refactoring to attempt to overcome a build up of technical debt
- "duplicate association path" bug in NHibernate Criteria API – Derek Fowler runs into an awkward NHibernate issue in the Criteria API, and offers a work around to mitigate the problem.
- TDD Tips: Test Naming Conventions & Guidelines – Bryan gives some suggestions and best practices for naming and working with tests created during Test Driven Development.
- Loosely coupled communication – Prism style – Glenn Block highlights the work of Francis Cheung who has a series of posts on the communication techniques used within the Prism WPF composite application block.
- The First Spec You Should Write When Using Castle – Bil Simser shows how you can validate the Windsor configuration using a specification based test
- Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Goodies – Pete Brown talks about the ‘this week’ release of Silverlight 2 beta 2, giving a summary of the most interesting new features. The other good news is that there is a go-live for things developed with Beta 2
- TechEd2008 from your Couch – Brad Abrams highlights the TechEd 2008 Online site, a means of getting to see some of the TechEd presentations without actually being there.
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