The Morning Brew

Software

• Mono 2.4 and MonoDevelop 2.0 released – Miguel de Icaza shares the announcement of the final release of both Mono 2.4 the Open Source implementation of the .NET Framework, featuring some significant performance improvements, and also the release of Version 2 of MonoDevelop, the IDE product now featuring integrated debugging
• Paving my machine for a fresh 2009 – First-Pass Must-Haves – Scott Hanselman lists his essential utilities for his 2009 reformat of his desktop machine
• redgate .NET Reflector 5.1.5.0 Released – Paulo Morgado highlights the release of the latest version of Reflector. This update is being supplied over the automatic update on application startup, however the website does not yet appear to have been updated
• Announcing the free ViewModel Tool – Daniel Cazzulino shares the latest update to his Visual Studio Custom tool which takes some of the pain out of creating some of the boiler plate code required to implement ISupportInitialize, ISupportInitializeNotification and IChangeTracking
• MassTransit 0.6 Release Candidate – Chris Patterson announces the release candidate release of MassTransit 0.6, a .NET Service bus implementation for building loosely coupled .NET applications. This release contains a number of new features and other changes, outlined in this post

Information

• Configuring NHibernate with ASP.NET – Alessandro Gallo gives a introduction to the configuration of NHibernate, and looks at how you can use it in web application context in this beginners tutorial
• Using NHibernate with multiple databases – Karl Seguin explores using multiple databases with NHibernate, and finds that its not especially difficult however there is a lack of documentation in this area
• Must Everything Be Virtual With NHibernate? – Davy Brion looks at the reason NHibernate wants all methods and properties to be virtual, and talks about hiw dynamic proxies are used to provide usefuly functionality such as Lazy Load. Davy also shows how you can turn off this functionality and therefore no longer require virtual properties
• Some ASP.NET compiler black magic – Bertrand Le Roy looks at some of the interesting and less well known features of the ASP.NET Compiler and engine
• Notes from SQL Server Premier Field Engineer : SQL Server 2005/2008 database tuning – picking low hanging fruits – part I – ‘Yuriy’ looks at some if the Dynamic Management Views that can help with performance tuning your SQL by helping to identify missing indexes
• Heisenberg And Lambdas – Justin Etheredge looks at a technique of using lambdas to attach events, exploring the potential of this method to leak memory and looks at how applying weak references can help with this
• HighBall Part Duex (#01) – Adron Hall talks about the creating his latest project using a User Experience first and TDD approach, starting in this part with mocking some screens and adding some implementation to support.

Community

• WebDD ’09 – Reading – 18th April 2009 – Register – Registrations for this year’s WebDD event to be held at Microsoft’s Reading campus in mid April opened yesterday, and are going fast – by the time you read this there may only be waiting list places available

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The SQLBits IV conference was very interesting, I’m now looking forward to the team behind the event releasing the videos of the sessions so I can see some of the sessions which clashed with others I was interested in.

Software

• IronPython 2.6 Alpha 1 – Harry Pierson announces the release of IronPython 2.6 Beta 1 which further closes the gap in performance between IronPython and CPython
• Prototype 1.6.1 RC2: IE 8 Here we come – Ajaxian highlights the release of a second release candidate of the Prototype javascript library. This latest release makes the library properly support Internet Explorer 8 in full ‘super standards’ mode and also on compatibility mode, along with adding a few new features to the library
• StyleCop for ReSharper – Release: 1.0.0.000 (compatible with ReSharper 4.1) – The latest release of StyleCop for Resharper (stable) brings the supported version of StyleCop up to 4.3.1, adds a new automatic updater, and fixes a number of issues. For those on the bleeding edge, there is also a V1.5 beta which supports the (not yet released) Resharper 4.5

Information

• Kona Screencast 1: It’s Baaaaack! – Rob Conery returns to screen casting with the first screen cast about the evolution of the ASP.NET MVC StoreFront application into Kona
• First steps with Lightweight Test Automation Framework – Steve Sanderson explores the Lightweight Test Automation Framework as a more streamlined replacement for the Selenium tests he’s been using with his xVal validator framework
• Framework Design Guidelines: the System.* namespace – Brad Abrams hosts a guest post from Kit George, the internal maintainer of the Framework guidelines at Microsoft, looking at the NameSpace guidelines and specifically the System.* and Microsoft.* namespaces
• My ReSharper NUnit Test Templates – Brian Genisio shares some ReSharper templates that he uses to speed up his unit test writing using NUnit
• AntiPaste, because Pasting Code Is Harmful – Tony Rasa proposes and shares the implmentation of an add on for your IDE that aims to reduce your reliance on Copy Paste development
• Experimenting With Fluent Interfaces in the Domain – Jan Van Ryswyck continues his series of posts on fluent interfaces with a look at an implementation in the domain model
• DDD Sample Application: Version 1.1.0 Released – Peter Backlund announces the release of an updated Domain Driven Design Application sample. This sample application, based around cargo shipments is a great bit of code to review and see how the principles of DDD can be applied
• Write ETL jobs in pure C# – ‘Paul B’ explores Rhino ETL, a C# library that brings DTS/SSIS functionality to your IDE, allowing you to do Extract Translate Load operations in pure C# code
• Functional Programming and Collective Intelligence – Matthew Podwysocki looks at how functional programming and Collective Intelligence can be combined.

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Looking forward to SQLBits IV tomorrow.

Software

• MvcContrib v1.0 Released! Download now – Jeffrey Palermo announces the release of MvcContrib, he library of extensions for ASP.NET MVC v1 including new view engines, controller factories and a whole load of other bits and pieces
• Announcing Gallio and MbUnit v3.0.6 – Jeff Brown announces the release of the latest version of MbUnit and the Gallio framework, giving a detailed run down of the included functionality
• Grommet: Linq, HTTP/1.1 and more for .NET Micro Framework – Blair Leduc announces Grommet, an implementation of many of the missing features of the full .NET framework on the .NET Micro Framework. This release includes Linq and HTTPWebRequest/Response.

Information

• Introduction to NHibernate, pt. 6 – Ian Cooper continues his series of posts on NHibernate, in the part looking at the NHibernate Session, and associated patterns such as Identity Map, Unit of Work and the standard CRUD operations
• MVC Beta to RTW upgrade issue – AddModelError and NullReferenceExceptions – Jimmy Bogard shares some of his pains in upgrading an ASP.NET MVC project from Beta to RTM releases
• The Weekly Source Code 39 – Commodore 64 Emulator in Silverlight 3 – Scott Hanselman explores a Silverlight Commodore 64 emulator in his latest Weekly Source Code post, looking at some of the more interesting parts of the project inlcuding the high performance video stream and the Disk Drive emulation. Scott also talks about this with the developer Pete Brown on his latest podcast. – Hanselminutes Podcast 155 – A C64 Emulator with Silverlight 3 by Pete Brown
• IE 8 Can Profile JavaScript – Steve Wellens highlights the JavaScript profiler available in the Internet Explorer 8 Developer tools
• Free Ebook: Mastering SQL Server 2005 Profiler – Jose Rolando Guay Paz highlights a free E-Book offer from RedGate on the SQL 2005 Profiler
• Database Scale-Out Strategies for Web Apps – Gil Shabat has written an interesting article on the various scale out methods for database driven web applications
• Enterprise Library 5.0 – tentative product backlog published, story/feature prioritization is open – your participation is invited! – Grigori Melnik calls out to the Enterprise Library community to vote for the features that they’d like to see in the Version 5 release of the Enterprise Library
• Why invest in UX? – Scott Barnes talks about why it is important to look at User Experience in your developments and that you should consider User Experience right back to the business processes your system is implementing

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