Another shorter than usual post – normal service will be resumed at the end of the week.
Software
- IronPython 1.1.2 RC – Harry Pierson has the lowdown on a minor release of IronPython which contains some backported bug fixes.
- NHibernate 2.0 Beta 2 Released – I’m a little late picking this one up, but Symon Rottem has noticed, and now so have I 😉
Information
- Design Patterns – Command Pattern – David Cumps continues his series on Design Patterns with a look at the Command Pattern. Check David’s previous posts too if you haven’t already for a tour of a number of other design patterns.
- New Modules for IIS7: Application Request Routing – Proxy and Load Balancing Module – Scott Hanselman looks at some of the new and exciting developments occurring on the IIS7 platform.
- West Wind Ajax Toolkit updated – Rick Strahl announces the latest release (1.90) of his AJAX toolkit, with a number of improvements over previous versions.
- ASP.NET MVC Tip #19 – Use the nVelocity View Engine – Stephen Walther shows how in just 6 steps you can be up and running with an alternative view engine in ASP.NET MVC
- Configuration via Typemock Interception – Roy Osherove (with his TypeMock hat on) shows how TypeMock can be used to gather configuration using code, and save this information away for later use.
- Optimizing LINQ Queries – K. Scott Allen looks at optimising LINQ Code, and talks about the dangers of doing too much optimisation.
- Getting IronRuby Up and Running – Justin Etheredge walks through the steps of getting IronRuby set up and running in this step by step screenshot rich article.
- Combinatorial Tests and Splitting Context From Specification – Chris Bilson looks at combinatorial tests, which are similar to RowTests except that they allow you to obtain the values from a factory method
Community
- Architecture Journal Issue 17 – Call for Papers – Simon Guest highlights the call for papers for the Architects Journal isue 17. The theme of the issue is Distributed Computing.