The Morning Brew

I had an enjoyable time at WebDD this weekend, it was nice to catch up with some old contacts, as well as meeting a couple of readers of The Morning Brew.

Software

• Deep Zoom Composer – Microsoft release a tool for easily creating Silverlight 2 powered deep zoom pictures and deploying them to the web.
• Your next text editor is… MetaNote! – secretGeek shares a seemingly simple text editor with a useful feature – you can customise the whole application from withing, changing the behaviour, etc by editing the code for the app inside the app.

Information

• Constructor Injection for ASP.NET MVC Model Binders – Fredrik Kalseth has been looking into integrating IOC Containers with ASP.NET MVC, and in this post explores using them to construct Model Binder implementations
• Repository is the new Singleton – Ayende shares an opionion on the Repository Pattern, going back to the original definition, and looking at it in use with NHibernate
• Keep Your IQueryable In Check – Justin Etheredge follows up on Ayende’s post with a look at the query object pattern and IQueryable
• Silverlight Layouts Part 1 – Charlie Calvert continues his introductory series to Silverlight with a look at the way things get laid out in a Silverlight App.
• Microsoft Technology Roadmap Links and Resources – dasBlonde shares a huge list of the latest Microsoft CTP releases, ideal if you are rebuilding a demo machine and need all the latest and greatest bits.
• Minimize Code by Using jQuery and Data Templates – Dan Wahlin explores templating output using JQuery and Data Templates
• NHibernate Mapping -<one-to-one/> – Ayende continues his series on NHibernate Mapping elements with a look at the One-To-One mappng, and <join/>
• Micro- optimization tips to increase performance – Patrick Smacchia shares some tips which can help you gain the most performance possible from your code, and follows up by asking/answering the questionDo we need Micro-Optimization?
• jQuery Leaking Memory:-Be careful while using in big applications – Aashish identifies a memory leak within jQuery on Internet Explorer and shares some details on how it can be reduced by commenting part of the library out – my team encountered this same issue last week, and these kinds of problem are going to be an increasing problem as more development uses these libraries
• How to improve the performance of ASP.NET MVC web applications – Simone Chiaretta shares some information on optimising the performance of ASP.NET MVC powered applications

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