The Morning Brew

Software

• IronRuby 0.3 Released – Jimmy Schementi announces the release of IronRuby 0.3, with source code and demo code included too. This release brings IronRuby to 80% completeness of the RubySpec test suite.
• CAT.NET New Build – 1.1.1.8 – The Connected Information Security Group announce the latest update to the Microsoft Code Analysis Tool for ,NET, which includes a number of bug fixes and a new export results to Excel feature
• CSLA .NET 3.6.2 Release Candidate available – Rockford Lhotka announces the release candidate release of his CSLA application framework for both Silverlight and Windows apps, with final release scheduled for the end of the month.

Information

• ASP.NET MVC Translated for the Web Forms Programmer (2 in a series) – Sara Chipps continues her series on ASP.NET MVC from the point of view of a WebForms developer, and in this part starts building an application using ASP.NET MVC
• Introduction to NHibernate, pt.5 – Ian Cooper continues his NHibernate series with a look at mapping Value types, one of the features that sets NHibernate apart from some other ORM products
• Test Review #1 – NerdDinner, Test Review #2 – ASP.NET MVC Unit Tests & Test Review #3 – Unity – Roy Osherove reviews some of the unit tests from a number of projects in screencast format, looking at the good and bad of each projects tests
• Extension methods: If you have a shiny new hammer – Andre Loker talks about the possible over use of Extension methods, along with a look at what they are capible of.
• Progressive Interfaces – Jan Van Ryswyck looks at the evolution of Fluent Interfaces into Progressive interfaces helping to make the aPI more discoverable
• Hosting .NET Reflector in your own Application – Nick Harrison looks at hosting the .NET Reflector in your own applications, and in this example constructs a web control which uses Reflector to disassemble the code of a method and outpit the code to the browser
• Efficient Tracing Using SOAP Extension in .NET – ‘ideafixxxer’ looks at implementing a Soap Extension to trace the in and out bound messages from a web service, looking at the problems that the standard implemetnations of this are prone to and looking at a good implementation
• To Inject Or Not To Inject – Justin Etheredge looks at why it is hard to see the benefits of Dependency Injection in simple samples and attempts to show where the real power of DI comes in
• Mix: Mobile Web Sites with ASP.NET MVC and the Mobile Browser Definition File – Scott Hanselman talks about his presentation at MIX09 and also about the work done by Microsoft Dublin on Mobile browser support
• MIX 09 Videos available now – ‘wzack’ highlights the availability of over 80 videos of sessions from Mix09 which are now freely available.
• Mix 09 Quick Video Link List – Greg Duncan has updated his PDC List Maker project to deal with the Mix09 video content, giving a easy access way of getting all the video content from the event

Community

• Alt.net London Beers #7 – Sebastien Lambla announces the next Alt.Net Beers event to be held in London on 31 March
• Brighton ALT.NET Beers: Tues 31st March 2009. 7pm. – Iain Holder announces a Brighton based Alt.Net beers event. If you re interested in attending, leave a comment on his post.

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