The Morning Brew

Software

• Selenium 1.0 released!! – Thoughtworks announce the release of Selenium their automated web application testing tool which runs over multiple platforms. The blog post doesn’t contain a link to the project, which can be found here
• Samples for the "Oslo" May CTP – The Oslo team highlight the availability of a new separate download for the samples which go with the May 2009 CTP release of Oslo
• SP2 Available for Vista and Windows 2008 – As correctly pointed out by Mark Brackett in a comment to yesterday’s post, it was Service Pack 2 for Vista that was released, so lets have another go at linking to a (different) post about this release

Information

• Improvements to NGen in .NET Framework 4 – Surupa Biswas talks about some of the changes that have been made to the .NET Native Image Generator in the new version of the framework
• Parallel Stacks- Tasks view – Daniel Moth continues exploring the new functionality of the Visual Studio 2010 Beta which relate to parallel programming
• NUnit’s Assert.That – Peter Seale talks about his dislike of the new NUnit Assert.That syntax
• The Zen of Inversion of Control – Jon Stonecash looks at the the techniques of Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control, and looks at where and why you might want to use it – samples are in VB.NET
• Exiting from Parallel Loops Early – ‘toub’ looks at how the Parallel functionality of the .NET Framework will allow you to exit from parallel loops as you can from a normal loop
• Survey: Ajax usage among .NET developers in 2009 – Brad Abrams highlights a survey by Simone Chiaretta looking at how ,NET developers are using AJAX in 2009. I look forward to seeing some interesting comparisons with the same survey run in 2007
• Anti-Patterns and Worst Practices – The Arrowhead Anti-Pattern – Chris Missal kicks off his series of posts on anti-patterns and worst practices with a look at the arrowhead anti-pattern which comes from deeply nested if/loop combinations.
• PTOM: Black-box analysis of legacy applications – Jimmy Bogard posts on the Topic Of The Month over at Los Techies, looking at how you should go about examining legacy applications from the outside

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