The Morning Brew #486
Posted by Chris Alcock on Friday 27th November 2009 at 08:22 am | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
As expected, today was a low post count edition due to yesterday being Thanksgiving in the US. I expect normal levels to return on Monday.
Information
- A Reading Guide To Becoming A Better Developer – Davy Brion shares his recommended reading list (and order) of books to help make you a better developer. All of the books mentioned are the best in their field, and there are some additional recommendations from Davy’s readers in the comments section
- Supporting multiple submit buttons on an ASP.NET MVC view – Maarten Balliauw shares a neat technique using a custom attribute derived from the ActionNameSelectorAttribute to allow ASP.NET MVC to make decisions about which action to call allowing you to have two submit buttons on a form, each doing different actions when called.
- Getting Started with Entity Framework 4 – Lazy Loading – Eric Nelson continues with his series on the Entity Framework 4 with a look at its support for lazy loading entities, a common ORM feature which was missing from the V1 release of Entity Framework
- Writing a profiler for Silverlight applications Part 1 – Gabriel Schenker begins a new series looking at using Mono Cecil to add instrumentation code into assemblies to allow them to be profiled, focusing specifically at profiling Silverlight applications. This first part introduces Mono Cecil and looks at how it work generally with any .NET Assembly
- Extending ASP.NET MVC 2 Templates – Kazi Manzur Rashid explores the ASP.NET MVC 2 Templates and the DisplayFor/EditorFor functionality, looking at extending the ModelMetaData to provide improved templating support for real world applications. Full sample code is provided
- TDD: Testing delegation – Mark Needham talks about the evolution of his testing style when testing delegation based code, looking at how he now perfers stubs to full mocks in this situation
- Reconsidering Code Coverage – Bj Rollison discusses the issue of Code Coverage in testing, looking at the various metrics, and discussing the usual question of is high test coverage a good measure of the depth of testing
- In search of simplicity, quality and tranquillity in software engineering : Kernel Debugging Day 1 – Interesting snippets of information for debugging in the trenches – Willy-Peter Schaub shares the knowledge he gained from the first day of a course on Kernel Mode Debugging, looking at crash dumps, how they are obtained, and some of the key debugger commands
Community
- Brighton ALT.NET Xmas Dinner, Wednesday 16th December, 7:30pm at Pizza Express – Iain Holder announces the plans for the Brighton Alt.Net Xmas event, a Christmas feast of pizza combined with good tech conversation, what could be better 🙂
- Europe Virtual ALT.NET: Follow-up – Recording of Mark Nijhof on CQRS @ E-VAN 18 November 2009 – Jan Van Ryswyck posts details of how to get a better quality recording of the European Virtual Alt.Net session from Mark Nijhof on Command Query Responsibility Separation.
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