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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A somewhat reduced size of posting again today – caused by problems with the Internet connection. Tomorrow will hopefully be a return to normal service.

Software

• Notes on ASP.NET MVC CodePlex Preview 4 – Phil Haack has the details of the latest ASP.NET MVC Preview release, now available on codeplex.
• CSLA Light preview release – Rockford Lhotka releases an early preview of his CSLA application framework
• Reintroducing Terrarium, now with 2.0 goodness! – Bil Simser announces the release of Terrarium on CodePlex. This was an early sample application (game) created by the .NET team in the 1.x times as a demo of what can be done in .NET. Now it has been updated a little over the years, and the source has been made available on Codeplex.

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• Recursing into List Processing – Matthew Podwysocki continues his Back To Basics series on Recursion witha look at list processing in F# and C#
• Don’t mix using statements and lambda expressions – Jared Parsons shares an interesting ‘Gotcha’ involving variable lifetimes – one to remember
• A C# library to write functional code – Part V – The Match operator – Luca Bolognese writes about the match operator in the final part of this series about functional programming concepts in C#.

Community

• The Alt.NET community on alternative .NET tools – An interesting looking event to be held at SkillsMatter in London on 31st July, with a number of recognised UK experts talking about the alternative .NET tools like NHibernate, etc

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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 😉

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• 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.

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