The Morning Brew

Yesterday’s Brew was a little later than intended – mainly because I forget to click ‘post’ in the back-end until I discovered the window buried below a number of others later in the morning. Hopefully I’ll remember to post this edition!

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• Scale Cheaply – Memcached – Karl Seguin takes a look at Memcached for improving the scalability of your applications.
• Entities and the Law of Demeter – Jimmy Bogard looks at the application of the Law of Demeter (principle of least knowledge) by identifying the ‘Inappropriate Intimacy’ code smell.
• Integration testing demonstrated (a data access testing with NHibernate) – Jeffrey Palermo looks at integration testing, giving some examples of the types of things to test when testing your repositories.
• Lite ORM library (v2) – Sergey Busel takes second stab at writing an Object Relational Mapper from scratch. I like these types of article as I believe that a simple ORM allows people to see what is actually happening in the much more complex ORM like NHibernate
• .NET Developers’ Reference Card Roundup – Alvin Ashcraft shares a useful list of quick reference cards covering a diverse range of subjects
• Inclusion of JavaScript Files – Rick Strahl looks at a number of different ways of including javascript in your ASP.NET pages, examining the pros and cons of the different methods
• TDD and Hard to Test Areas, Part1 – Ian Cooper looks at test driven development, and some of the areas that prove difficult for the newcommer to TDD.
• Recursing into Linear, Tail and Binary Recursion – Matthew Podwysocki continues his series on Recursion with a look at Linear, Tail and binary recursion, with samples in both C# and F#.
• Some RichTextBox tricks – Patrick Smacchia gives some tips for using a RichTextBox as a syntax highlighting code editor.

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