The Morning Brew

Software

• FluentNHibernate Contrib (FNH.Contrib) Is Alive! – Derick Bailey announces the release of FluentNHibernate Contrib, a library which brings a fluent style interface to the NHibernate Criteria API. This project has been kept separate from FluentNHibernate (which has a fluent interface for the configuration of NHibernate) to avoid introducing a new changing API into the main project. The Contrib project is looking for further contributions of other related code.
• NCover v3.1 unveiled! Bad code flees! – NCover announce Version 3.1 of NCover, their first major update to the Version 3 series. This release includes a bunch of new features based on feedback from the 3.0 release, along with a few changes and bugfixes.
• New release of the Ajax Control Toolkit – Bertrand Le Roy announces a new release of the Microsoft Ajax Control Toolkit which adds three new controls, a HTML Editor control, a ComboBox, and a colo(u)r picker

Information

• Donut Hole Caching in ASP.NET MVC – Phil Haack follows on from a previous post on Donut caching (caching the outside of a page), with a look at caching the inside of the page.
• TeamCity.CodeBetter Project List – Kyle Baley provides an updated list of the projects being hosted on the CodeBetter TeamCity server. Lots of great opensource .NET projects are available on there in their latest build configurations.
• The fallacy of the always-valid entity – Jeffrey Palermo talks about validation and looks at whether you should write code in your entities which prevent invalid state.
• Programming Paradigms in Test Automation – Bj Rollison gives a rundown of the different types of test automation and how they can be useful.
• How to test your multi-threaded code (part 2 of 3)? – Eric De Carufel continues his series of posts on testing multi-threaded code using CHESS with parts two and part 3 continuing the investigations started on a simple account model.
• How Rapid is Rapid? How Quick is Quick? – Kendall explores the importance of speed in logging frameworks, looking at the importance of how the file is handled and the effect of some optimisations on the reliability of logging.
• jQuery Performance Rules – Best Practices for Speeding Up jQuery – An interesting post from a while ago, looking at the various things that you can do to ensure that your jQuery code is as optimal as possible

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