The Morning Brew #353
Posted by Chris Alcock on Friday 22nd May 2009 at 09:10 am | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Monday is a public holiday here in the UK, and so as tradition dictates there will be no edition of The Morning Brew on Monday, with the usual daily posting schedule resuming on Tuesday. Have a good weekend everyone!
Software
- IronRuby 0.5 Released – Jimmy Schementi announces the release of IronRuby 0.5, with a bunch of enhancements and new features included in the release, the most notable is a significant performance improvement which makes a drastic difference for those running rails on IronRuby
Information
- NHibernate – Help us see who is using it – Ayende appeals to the NHibernate userbase to register their use of NHibernate so that the developers and wider community can see how widely and how people are using NHibernate.
- A quick analyze of the .NET Fx v4.0 Beta1 – Patrick Smacchia does his now usual comparison of the latest .NET framework release from Microsoft using NDepend. Looking at the first pictorial representation you can see that .NET 4 is a significant change to large parts of the framework
- The Architecture Journal – Nick MacKechnie highlights the last 5 editions of the (now online only) Architects Journal from Microsoft.
- Demo Dashboard and IDE Extensions – Whirlwind Tour around .NET 4 (and Visual Studio 2010) Beta 1 – Scott Hanselman continues his tour round the new VS2010 and .NET 4 features of the beta release with a look at the extensibility capability of VS, and talks about how much easier it has become to work to extend the IDE
- Don’t use Response.End() with OutputCache – Rick Strahl talks about the problems that Response.End calls cause for the Output Cache
- ASP.NET MVC Domain Routing – Maarten Balliauw digs down into the innards of ASP.NET MVC with the hope of achieving routing capabilities using the parts of the domain name as well as the path.
- POCO in the Entity Framework: Part 1 – The Experience – Faisal Mohamood explores the new POCO (Plain Old CLR Objects) support in Entity Framework 4.0, and starts running through a demo of the functionality
- What’s new in the Concurrency Runtime and the Parallel Patterns and Asynchronous Agents Libraries – Rick Molloy highlights some of the new features of the .NET Framework in the areas of Parallel Patterns, Concurrency, Async Agents
- Protecting against XML Entity Expansion attacks – Tom Hollander talks about a Denial of Service type attach which originates from a seemingly innocent XML document
- Using The Guid.Comb Identifier Strategy – Davy Brion looks at the Guid.Comb NHibernate Identity strategy which helps avoid index fragmentation in the database due to the traditionally random nature of GUID values.
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