The Morning Brew

Another Morning Brew Milestone edition today, marking the 300th daily post of links. I had hoped to include a few little extras in today’s post but a lack of time has meant that they will have to wait for a less auspicious post number.

Software

• January 2009 "Oslo" SDK Refresh – Chris Sells announces the release of a refresh release of the January 2009 Oslo SDK, which fixes a few issues in the Jan 2009 release

Information

• Back to Basics: Interfaces – Karl Seguin resumes his Back To Basics series with a look at the use of Interfaces, from the core concepts to some of the choices available when implementing classes.
• DDD: Validity, Consistency and Immutability – Casey Charlton continues his DDD series with a look at three more concepts, validity and maintaining a valid state in the entity, consistancy of state of entities and briefly talks about immutability
• New ASP.NET MVC Validation Tutorials Posted at www.ASP.net/MVC – Stephen Walther announces the release of 3 more tutorials on Validation in ASP.NET MVC on the official ASP.NET site.
• Cast to the rescue! – Nizar Noorani highlights a useful method on IQueryable which allows you to cast the the collection to another type.
• Use jQuery to catch and display ASP.NET AJAX service errors – Dave Ward looks at handling errors from ASP.NET AJAX services when using JQuery to call and work with the service methods.
• Test and Sample Data – Darren Fieldhouse shares shis test and sample data creation tool which builds real looking test data for use when testing or demoing applications
• Thinking about C# 4.0, VB 10 and Dynamic – Mike Taulty explores the ideas behind the dynamic keyword in C#4, looking at VB and how it has supported this type of thing in the past. Mike then explores what dynamic really means illustrating with examples.
• Practical LINQ #2: Reporting duplicate names – Samuel Jack looks at a useful use of linq to identify if names have been duplicated
• (Almost) Frictionless Testing: Specifications – Erik Peterson explores the use of Specifications in Testing to help make the testing easier, borrowing ideas from J.P. Boodhoo work in this area
• T4 Tutorial: Making code generators extensible – Oleg Sych looks at implementing extensibility in your T4 templates for code generation.
• Choose .Concat() over .Union() if possible – Frans Bouma talks about two similar linq operators and how choosing the right one for your situation can give a performance boast in certain circumstances
• Silverlight 2.0 Walkthrough – Creating a "Traffic Jam" game – Tess Ferrandez takes a break from her usual topic of Debugging with a series of posts creating a simple game in Silverlight exploring usercontrols, Linq to XML, drag drop and isolated storage along the way.

Community

• DDD Belfast – 4th April 2009 – Register – Another day, and another Developer Developer Developer Community event registration has opened, this time for the event to be held in Belfast in April.

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Software

• ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate 2 – Phil Haack announces the second release candidate of ASP.NET MVC. This release takes a dependency for install on .NET 3.5 SP1 while maintaining the ability to deploy to .NET 3.5 without the service pack. There is also a server only install which doesn’t have the Visual Studio dependency.
• An Editor for Communicating with RESTful Services. – A simple little application which makes it easy to issue REST requests and see what the responses looks like.

Information

• ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate 2: I declare myself to be declarative! – Eilon Lipton highlights the ASP.NET MVC RC2 release, and also examines the MVC Controls feature of the MVC Futures package
• How to Learn ASP.NET MVC – Keyvan Nayyeri talks about learning ASP.NET MVC, highlighting some of the key concepts and principles along with the breadth of supporting technologies needed.
• ASP.NET MVC Domain Driven Design – Nathan Stott starts a series of posts on building an application using DDD and ASP.NET MVC. In this part Nathan sets up the project, gathers the supporting tools and looks at some base implementations of the system.
• ASP.NET MVC Tip: Add a new T4 template for making MVCContrib Grid Helper Component – Shiju Varghese shows how you can create your own templates for common ASP.NET MVC tasks using T4 Templates.
• CRUD with ASP.NET MVC (screencast) – Maarten Balliauw shares a 15 minute screencast showing the construction of simple ASP.NET MVC powered Create Read Update Delete functionality.
• Dynamic log fileNames with log4net – Rohit Gupta shows how you can programatically set the log file name using log4net, along with other uses of the log4net properties. Rohit also explores the Rolling File Apender in this related post.
• Triggering events on UI components (WinForms) – Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo shows how he is currently testing his WinForms UI, using an event trigger to fire UI events from his tests.
• 43,439 reasons to use append() correctly – Josh Powell looks at the performance of the jQuery append method, and shows how if used incorrectly it can really ruin your javascript performance.
• Love the Dot: TaskManager – The Range Rover of the .Net 4 Parallel Extensions – Paul Jackson looks a the Parallel Extensions Task Manager class, and shows how using it can actually slow down the performance of your parallel code.
• Building a WeakReference Hashtable – Jared Parsons looks at the implementation of a Hashtable holding weak references to objects,

Community

• What do you think of when you hear DDD? (UK) – Eric Nelson talks about the DDD (Developer Developer Developer) series of UK Community Events highlighting all the currently planned events.
• DDD South West Registration Is Open! – Guy Smith-Ferrier announces that the registrations for DDD South-west are officially open.
• Registration (DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper Scotland) – Registrations also opened for the Developer Developer Developer event to be held in Scotland on 2nd May.

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Software

• ankhsvn: Ankh 2.0 – The ankhsvn tean announces their latest release of their Subversion plugin for Visual Studio allowing you to work with Subversion from the solution explorer. This release contains a number of new features, including experimental support for VS2010, along with a number of bugfixes and improvements.
• CSLA .NET 3.6.2 beta release – Rockford Lhotka announces his latest CSLA framework release. This beta is feature complete, and will now only have bugfixes added before final release in the next couple of weeks.
• Hot fix available for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 crashing when opening up aspx files (views) on Vista SP1 x64 – Eric Hexter highlights a new HotFix from Microsoft for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 which fixes a crash issue when opening ASPX files on Vista x64. It sounds like a good number of folks have been effected by this issue, so you’ll all be thankful for the fix.

Information

• DDD: The Specification Pattern – Casey Charlton continues his series on DDD practices and principles with a look at the specification pattern, and reminds us that the official home of this content is his new DDD Step By Step website.
• Maestro: A new .Net language for parallel programming from Microsoft – Samuel Jack dropped me an email to highlight a new language from Microsoft called Maestro for developing scalable parallel programs, Samuel has a short write up here about the language with a number of links to related content
• Introducing Maestro – A DSL for Actor Based Concurrency – Following on from the previous item, Matthew Podwysocki talks in some more depth about the language and what its aims are
• What’s the point of Value types? – Mike Hadlow discusses the key difference between DDD value types and immutable entities – its all in the identity
• Exploring MapReduce with F# – Matthew Podwysocki explores one of the most famous Functional constructs, Map Reduce, brought to fame by being the foundation of Google’s ability to search web sized data sets quickly. In this post Matthew shares an implementation in F#
• Microsoft project code named "Velocity" : How to use C# to perform cluster administration in ‘Velocity’ – Shankar Reddy Sama & Rahul Kaura of the Velocity team share some useful looking C# based PowerShell cmdlets for managing Velocity clusters, – and also hint at a Mix09 time-frame release of the Third CTP of Velocity
• Back To Basics: How does the GC find object references – Abhinaba Basu continues his interesting series on Garbage Collection
• Why are scripts slow to load in Firefox when using Visual Studio’s built-in development Web server (a.k.a. Cassini)? – Bertrand Le Roy shares a solution to an interesting sounding issue with FireFox and the built in Visual Studio web server. I can’t say I’ve noticed this slow down, but I do tend to use IIS for local development.
• Collection Of Puzzles For Programmers – SQLDenis shares links to a number of interesting programming problems, things like finding all the Friday 13ths in a given date range to calculating the phases of the moon. I suspect a few of these would make good interview questions.

Community

• DDD South West Registration Opens Tomorrow – Guy Smith-Ferrier announces that Registration for the Developer Developer Developer Day to be held in South West England opens today at 10am (UK)

Alt.Net Seattle Reactions

• Experiencing ALT.NET Seattle 2009 Open Spaces – Scott Hanselman shares his post conference thoughts, and provides a huge array of links to the video footage he captured at the Alt.NET event held in Seattle this weekend
• Alt.Net Seattle Review – Eric Hexter reflects on the Alt.Net Seattle conference reviewing a number of the sessions he attended
• ALT.NET Seattle 2009, some impressions – Ian Cooper performs a memory dump of the things that interested him at the Alt.Net Seattle event this weekend.

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