The Morning Brew

Every day I have a number of items that I’ve glanced at that may be ‘Brew worthy’ but that I’ve not had a chance to read fully, or might not fit precisely with what I’m trying to talk about with the Morning Brew (outside the area of interest, or just totally irrelevant) – would people be interested in another link blog series of these links (without commentary) posted later in the day? – let me know your views in the comments.

Software

• Report Builder for SQL Server 2008 RTM’s – Greg Duncan highlights the release of SQL Server 2008 Report Builder 2.0, a report authoring environment for SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services.
• PAL – Performance Analysis of Logs – Ricardo Henriques highlights a really useful looking tool for monitoring the different types of logs that your infrastructure produces. Ricardo walks through some of the steps in setting up the tool, and based on what I see where this looks well worth investing a little time having a play with if you are in any way responsible for running servers.
• Composite WPF and Silverlight – Release: Prism V2 – Drop 3 – I’m a little late on this one, as drop three of Prism V2 was released last week, but I think its still worth mentioning.
• WSCF.classic: WSCF 0.7 now open source on CodePlex – Christian Weyer announces that ThinkTecture’s WSCF 0.7 (for Soap Services) is now available in source form on CodePlex – its really nice to see commercial organisations opening up their code to the community.

Information

• ObjectMother and TestDataBuilder – Ian Cooper compares two different methods for creating your test data for use in unit tests, explaining why in his current projects they have moved from ObjectMother to TestDataBuilder.
• Frustration Friday – How NHibernate Can Waste Your Day – Casey Charlton talks about some problems he encountered with NHibernate / NHSearch, and remarks on the power behind these projects in the form of the Community.
• Introduction to CLR – Simple Example of CLR Stored Procedure – Pinal Dave gives a simple getting started tutorial for SQL Server CLR showing how you can write your Stored Procedures in .NET and run them in the database engine.
• MSTest 2008 Reports for CruiseControl.NET – Jonathan de Halleux shares 2 XSLT templates for rendering MSTest 2008 output within CruiseControl.NET.
• ASP.NET Completion and MonoDevelop Debugger Packages – Michael Hutchinson talks about some of the recent enhancements that have been being made to MonoDevelop, and are now creaping into the trunk releases.
• Test Automation Brain Dump – Jeremy D. Miller shares some thoughts on automation of tests, testing all tiers of the application starting at the application, passing right down to the database and all the way back. Hopefully this will get some discussion going in the comments on Monday when the working world returns to the blogsphere
• Deep Clone of a business object: the quick and dirty way – Giorgetti Alessandro looks at easy Deep Cloning functionality for Silverlight, WCF and WPF.
• ASP.NET: Alternatives to Dynamic Controls – Part 1 – Adam Pooler starts a serise looking at alternative ways of achieving Dynamic Control like behaviour in ASP.NET in ways which (in certain situations) are easier and better

Community

• Can’t Go To PDC? Attend the MSDN Developer Conference – One for my US based readers, Angela Binkowski highlights a series of events being held across the US in December and January, which at $99 look to be quite interesting. I hope something like this will happen in a few locations in the UK too.

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