Announcing Sync Framework 2.0 CTP2 – Nina Hu of the Microsoft Sync Framework Team announces the release of their second CTP of Version 2, with a number of new features, improving support for different editions of SQL Server, better conflict management, etc
Download details: F# PowerPack for .NET 4.0 Beta1 – Microsoft Release the F# Powerpack for .NET 4.0 Beta 1, which contains a number of tools and libraries for F# developers, including charting and Math libraries, Lexers and Parser building tools, a bridge to LINQ, and a whole bunch more.
Introduction to NHibernate, pt. 7 – Ian Cooper resumes his series on NHibernate with a look at Active Record based on NHibernate, and how it relates to NHibernate in terms of mappings, session management and repositories
Developing Cross Platform application with MonoDevelop – Miguel de Icaza gives an update on the progress being made with MonoDevelop, which now runs under Windows where it will use the .NET framework and the .NET managed debugger
ASP.NET MVC Roadmap – Phil Haack and the ASP.NET MVC team outline their roadmap for the Version 2 release
Git For Windows Developers – Git Series – Part 2 – Jason Meridth continues his series on Git with a look at all the Git commands and what they do, along with the account setup process for GitHub
From LINQ to XPath and Back Again – K. Scott Allen looks at using extension methods to regain some of the brevity and clarity of XPath while still using Linq when working with XML documents
Retrying Operations – Tony Rasa investigates a reusable way of performing operations which you expect may fail and require retrying
Writing Clean Code is a Process – Brendan Enrick talks about the process behind creating clean code. I especially like the ‘Boy Scout rule’, and think that, within reason, all developers should aim to achieve this by leaving the code they do work on in a better state than it was when they started
