The Morning Brew

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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