The Morning Brew

A multitude of technical problems made preparing today’s edition more difficult than it should have – Looks like it might be one of those days.

Information

• ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 CodePlex Preview 1 available – The First Preview release of the forthcoming ASP.NET Ajax version 4 release has been made available on CodePlex
• NUnit: 2.4.8 Released – A bugfix release of the famous unit testing framework.

Information

• Distributed Caching – Strategies and Tips – Scott Watermasysk talks about distributed caching and shares some of the best practices he has picked up working with a distributed cache on Community Server
• Linq to NHibernate in 10 minutes – Matt Hinze examines Linq to NHibernate in the CodeCampServer project.
• No Slow Unit Tests with xUnit.net – Ade Miller shows how you can prevent slow unit tests from bogging your test run down with the use of the xUnit.NET StrictFact Attribute to enforce a timeout
• Unit Test Boundaries – Phil Haack talks about the single responsibility principle and how that should apply to unit testing
• MVC AJAX Support – Melvyn Harbour looks at the new Ajax functionality in the latest ASP.NET MVC preview release.
• Minimalist Coding Style – Mark Levison talks about some of his rules of programming
• Learn How to use NHibernate with the Summer of NHibernate Screencast Series – Scott Hanselman talks about screencasts for learning, and about NHibernate with reference to Stephen Bohlen’s ‘Summer of NHibernate Screencast Series’
• Thread Proxy Mediator Pattern – Michael Birken shows an implementation of a pattern to help with avoiding common GUI problems
• Introduction to Object-Oriented Javascript – A nice short introduction to a number of the more advanced Javascript programming techniques
• Name Your Threads – Daniel Moth encourages developers to name their threads to make debugging easier.

Community

• VBUG Manchester: Where’s my data? An intro to Spatial Queries in SQL Srv 08 – Tommorrow’s VBUG Manchester event should be interesting – Colin Angus MacKay will be talking about the new spatial features of SQL Server 2008

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