The Morning Brew

Today’s edition is a little lighter than I wanted it to be – it appears that FeedBurner’s feeds.feedburner.com server is down (at least from my network location), which resulted in lots of the articles I wanted to link to this morning being unreachable from their feeds. To add insult to injury, Ma.Gnolia’s web service was also down this morning making putting the post together harder too. I may do a post later today with some of the missing links – or I might wait and include them in tomorrow’s post.

On a happier note, I’d like to extend my congratulations to all the 2009 MVPs, and especially to the first time MVPs – keep up the good work.

Software

• PowerShell Analyzer now 100% free. – Karl Prosser announces that PowerShell Analyser, the IDE/Editor and PowerShell host is now completely free.
• Microsoft Silverlight Unit Test Framework – A Silverlight specific unit testing framework, which has been updated to the RC0 level.

Information

• Amazon EC2 with Microsoft Windows Server Notification – Amazon announce that they will be offering Windows Servers and SQL Server on their EC2 Cloud Computing service from later this season
• Parallel Computations in C# – Andrew Kirillov looks at implementing parallelism using only the standard language features – I always think there is a lot of value at looking at the basic implementation of this kind of thing before using some of the (very clever and good) frameworks.
• Lazy LINQ and Enumerable Objects – K. Scott Allen talks about why Linq methods return IEnumerables rather than lists.
• Unit Testing decoupled from TDD as well== Adoption – Roy Osherove continues looking at the adoption of testing and Test driven development, and in this post discusses separating Unit testing as a skill from Test Driven Development, as good unit testing does not mean you have to do TDD
• Three Free .Net eBooks: “.NET Enterprise Solutions …Best Practices for the Connoisseur”, “…Interoperability for the Connoisseur” and “…Software Engineers on their way to Pluto” (you just have to love the title of that last one) – Greg Duncan highlights the availability of three free eBooks
• Isolator feature focus: Live objects in unit tests – Roy Osherove shows of a neat feature of TypeMock Isolator which looks to help readability and understandability in unit test

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