The Morning Brew

Not as many posts for me to read through this morning yet the overall quality was very high. Slightly late posting today as I felt like having a lie-in to recover from spending the whole day yesterday traipsing around London with suitcase and laptop bag doing a bit of sight seeing.

Software

• MonoTouch: Mono on iPhone closed preview – Miguel de Icaza announces the near completion of MonoTouch, a Mono library for interacting with touch screens which will be a commercial offering, Currently they are looking for some people to try the library out as a part of a closed preview / beta

Information

• Put Your Views (and Pages) On a Diet – Phil Haack talks about a few tricks you can employ to reduce the code cruft required in the view pages in ASP.NET MVC
• Installing .NET Framework V4.0 and Running .NET 2.0/3.0/3.5/3.5Sp1 Applications – Mike Taulty talks about the .NET 4 CLR, and how you will be able to run .NET 3.5 applications through it, but highlights some additional deployment details.
• What’s The Difference, Part Two: Scope vs Declaration Space vs Lifetime – Eric Lippert takes another 3 terms that people seem to use interchangeably and explains the actual meanings of those terms in te C# context
• Building software that matters – Gojko Adzic shares some of the thoughts from the UK Alt.Net Conference on building valuable software, and improving software processes. This was one of the sessions I didn’t get to attend, so these notes are a nice summary
• Patterns for testing – Alan Page talks about patterns within testing, looking at the definition of the pattern with an example
• Entity Framework Design : Code Only Enhancements – Alex James talks about some of the latest work that has been done in the Entity Framework in the area of Code Only implementation since they released their first preview release.
• This Is Why I Don’t Like Microsoft’s Way Of Open Source Development – Davy Brion talks about his dislike of the way that Microsoft are doing the Open Source development of products like the Unity Container, with sporadic check ins and releases, and not accepting community patches.
• On Open Source Software, Itches, and Documentation – Steve Bohlen is also talking about open source projects looking at the motivation of the people behind the projects, the various persona’s involved, and the reason why he feels that documentation doesn’t tend to happen
• Replace Comments With Code – Jon Torresdal talks about replacing comments with code, which at first sounds like a strange idea, however his take is that the code should be able to express a lot of comments content purely by good naming.
• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 17: Evolving an Application – Brad Abrams continues his series of posts on building a Silverlight 3 application using the RIA services (despite me thinking the summary closed the series yesterday) with a look at some of the tasks that we might undertake to evolve the application further and how we can go about them
• UnCommon C# keywords – A Look – Abhishek Sur explores a couple of the less well known C# keywords, looking at their syntax and use in this CodeProject article.

Community

• Announcing the Alternative Network Group – Seb Lambla announced his plans to create the Alternative Network Group at the AltNetBeers event last Friday, and here he outlines the plans for the community which has emerged from his Alt.Net Beers events. A number of interesting initiatives make up the plan, with it all kicking off in September
• Free Event – Windows 7 & Windows Server 2008 R2 – 21 Aug 2009 – Microsoft Reading are running a free event on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 for Education users, titled ‘The Windows in Education Day’. Registration is by email.
• Announcing AgileTesting.org.uk – Gojko Adzic announces the launch of a new community website revolving around Agile Testing in the UK and related discussions, providing forums and video content on the subject

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