The Morning Brew

Still playing catchup following my trip overseas so a few of these links are a little older than usual.

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• MVC Storefront Part 17: Checkout With Jeff Atwood – Latest edition of Rob Conery’s screen cast on building an ecommerce store using ASP.NET MVC. In this part he chats with Jeff Atwood about Open ID and Cardspace, the ideas for the checkout process and looks at setting up cardspace.
• IronPython Post 2.0 Roadmap – Harry Pierson shares the vision of the IronPython Team
• Nullable<T> Usage Guidelines – Krzysztof Cwalina provides some guidelines for Nullable<T> that are being added to the second edition of one of my favourite books, the Framework Design Guidelines book
• CodeStore – Part 1 of n (TreeSurgeon, Castle Windsor, Log4net) – Nauman Leghari starts a series of posts about a new pet project to extract information from assemblies and store in a database. This part looks at the first stage of the project setup using Tree Surgeon and getting Castle and Log4Net working.
• CodeStore – Part 2 of n (SQLite, NHibernate) – In the second part of this series Nauman Leghari looks at setting up NHibernate using the Castle NHibernate Facility and storing data in SQLite
• Setting up CruiseControl.NET to be a Continuous Monitoring Server – An interesting CodeProject article by Ralph Willgoss, outlining an alternative use for CruiseControl.NET as a monitoring server.
• Separation of Concerns by example: Part 5 – Jimmy Bogard rounds out his series in Separation of Concerns by introducing StructureMap to do some dependency injection.
• I Am So Tempted to Write the "Exception Handling in .NET" E-Book – Jason Bock is that fed up of seeing bad exception handling code. I do have to agree, it is a area that a lot of developers seem to struggle with.
• Design Patterns – Adapter Pattern – David Cumps takes a look at the Adapter pattern to convert from one type of interface to another
• ASP.NET MVC Preview 4: ComponentController Is Now RenderAction – Rob Conery looks at one of the changes in the ASP.NET MVC PR4

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