The Morning Brew #451
Posted by Chris Alcock on Friday 9th October 2009 at 07:36 am | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- WikiPlex v1.2 Released – Matt Hawley announces the release of WikiPlex 1.2, the wiki engine that powers the CodePlex Wiki. The updated release includes support for embedding Silverlight, video, improved indentation, and support for syntax highlighting of C++ and Java.
Information
- The catalogue metaphor and command-query seperation architectures – Ian Cooper discusses the concept of Command Query Separation, looking at how you can comprehend this concept at the detail and architectural level
- NHibernate Caching and Assigned Ids – A Potential Pitfall – Anne Epstein talks about an interesting problem she encountered causing entities to become read-only whilst implementing NHibernate Caching on entities that had assigned Ids
- ASP.NET MVC learning resource: Request-Handling Pipeline Poster – Steve Sanderson highlights a poster he has produced in conjunction with RedGate which details the process that ASP.NET MVC Requests go through
- Hybrid App Debugging – Threading – Harry Pierson continues his series looking at debugging polyglot C# / IronPython applications with a look at the implications of threading on the traceback debugging.
- .Net Developers Hear Me Out! IronRuby is IN DA HOUSE! – Shay Friedman has a public conversation with his imaginary .NET Developer friend hoping to convey why such a developer should be interested and excited in IronRyuby 2
- Create your own IDE in 10 minutes – Rudi Grobler shows off two controls from the SharpDevelop / ICSharpCode team which make creating an nice simple IDE very easy, dealing with arrangement of panes (AvalonDock) and editing the source with highlighting (AvalonEdit)
- My History of Visual Studio (Part 4) – Rico Mariani continues his series of posts sharing his personal history of the Visual Studio IDE
- Setting log4net FileAppender.File at runtime – Wil Peck shares a useful tip about customising log4net configuration in code at runtime to override the configuration from elsewhere.
- Leveraging ASP.NET MVC 2 futures"ViewState" – Don’t be discouraged by the title, this post is infact Maarten Balliauw taking a look at Serialized Model State which allows you to embed the current version of your model data into your page allowing you to create optimistic locking situations like Martin outlines in this post
- What’s the difference between "as" and "cast" operators? – Eric Lippert continues his ‘What’s the Difference’ series with a look at the difference between a cast "(Foo)" and the "as" operator.
- .NET Voice Recorder – Mark Heath shares a project on the Coding4Fun site which deals with sound recording and visualisation in C#.Net and WPF
- Functional Programming Fundamentals Lectures – Matthew Podwysocki highlights a series of Video Casts he did with Erik Meijer and Charles Torre exploring functional programming basics. At the time of writing the first 2 videos of the 13 part series have been posted
- Application that won’t Pin to Taskbar in Windows 7 – Rick Strahl runs into some interesting behaviour in Windows 7 which prevents one of his applications from being able to be pinned to the taskbar due to the executable name containing some reserved words defined within Windows
Community
- AltNetBeers StackOverflow DevDays edition – Seb Lambla opens registration for the AltNetBeers special event which coincides with the DevDays conference. This is a great opportunity to taste Open Spaces discussions and meet a lot of your fellow developers in a social environment around the conference schedule
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