The Morning Brew

Software

• When will you get Windows 7 RTM? – Windows 7 hit RTM yesterday, and the Windows 7 Team Blog shares the details of when Windows 7 will be made available to different groups of users.
• Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM’s! – Windows 2008 R2 also joins Windows 7 at RTM state yesterday, and this post from the Microsoft SMB Community Blog gives some of the headline new features
• Microsoft Expression Studio 3 Released! – Microsoft also released Version 3 of Expression Studio, which goes hand in hand with Silverlight 3 to allow you to easily create UI beauty using the tools included such as Expression Belnd, Sketchflow, Expression Web, Expression Encoder and Expression Design
• Latest Updates for SQL Server 2008 are Out – Buck Woody highlights the release of Cumulative Update 3 for SQL Server 2008 Sp1 and Cumulative Update 6 for SQL Server 2008 RTM
• jQuery Ribbon 1.0 RTW and 2.0 sneak peak – Mikael Söderström releases version 1 of his JQuery based Ribbon UI linrary, and shares some insight into what he has planned for v2

Information

• A First Look at MassTransit – Mike Hadlow shares his first impressions of the Mass Transit lean service bus implementation, and highlights some good resources for getting to know it as the documentation is not that substantial yet
• Quickstart tutorial into Enterprise Library logging – Dennis van der Stelt takes a look at what you need to do in order to get up and running with the Enterprise Library Logging , looking at the assemblies you must reference and the configuration necessary
• Would you still write unit tests even if you couldn’t automatically re-run them tomorrow? – Tim Stall talks about unit testing, and considers some of the factors that lead to unit testing becomming one of those pay now for later benefit things, and considers how unit testing actually can help at writing time
• Computing with JavaScript Web Workers – John Resig talks about one of the newest JavaScript features, Web Workers, which allow you to run JavaScript code in parallel meaning that you can run JavaScript without blocking the User interface.
• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 9: POCO and Authentication Provider – Brad Abrams continues his series on Silverlight 3 with a look at using Plain Old CLR Objects (POCO) as a data source and takes a look at a new template which brings login and create user support
• Refactoring Challenge Part 3 – Pattern Implementation – Jimmy Bogard continues his series of posts looking at refactoring a chunk of code with a look at applying the Strategy and Specification patterns
• The Tale of the Lazy Architect – Ayende talks about a project where the architecture worked well, and looks at some of the factors that lead to this being the case
• Introduction to Test-Driven Development with ASP.NET MVC – Shiju Varghese gives a runthrough of using Test Driven Development practices with ASP.NET MVC with plenty of code along the way to show the direction taken
• Customizing T4 Templates – Alex James of the ADO.NET team talks about customising the T4 Templates used by the entity framework to generate the entities

Community

• Brighton ALT.NET Beers: Tuesday 4th August, 7pm at The Prince Albert – Iain Holder announces the next Alt.Net Brighton Beers event to be held on the first Tuesday of August

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