The Morning Brew

Software

• Tools We Use – John Robbins posts up a list of the tools that the technical folks at Wintellect use on a day to day basis. I always find these lists interesting as you often find whole classes of tools which solve or assist with problems you are having

Information

• One bug, two developers: Collaborative debugging is now a reality in Visual Studio 2010 – Habib Heydarian looks at the features in Visual Studio which allow for better collaboration between developers when they are doing debugging, such as import and export of data tips and break points
• December’s Toolbox Column Now Online – Scott Mitchell higlights the features from his December Toolbox column for MSDN Magazine, Nikhil Sachdeva also highlights his contribution of an article on Pex at MSDN and the CLR Team blog also highlights the work of Jesse Kaplan and Luiz Fernando Santos in their article CLR Inside Out – In-Process Side-by-Side
• Good Claims, Bad Claims 1: an Example – Vittorio Bertocci looks deeper into the concepts of claims discussing when and where it is appropriate to use which claims concept
• Windows 7 resources for developers – in one place – Eric Nelson highlights the work being done within his group to bring together the best Windows 7 related resources for developers for the UK MSDN
• Your Abomination Is My Clever Hack – K. Scott Allen discusses the interesting use of Lambda expressions in the ASP.NET MVC Contrib library functions for building tables, and how, depending on your position, this is either a lovely or horrid use of the language.
• Hacking the ASP.NET Parser – Unhandled Exception – David Fowler looks at the extension points available in the ASP.NET Parser and uses some of them to add in the ability for templates for controls such as repeaters to be specified as external ascx templates
• A* pathfinding search in C# – Part 3 – Leniel Macaferi posts the final part in a series of posts begun in June this year looking at the A* Search, using a real world example based on cities in Romania to illustrate the concepts
• Migrating to Fluent NHibernate – Jimmy Bogard runs through the process he took to migrate existing NHibernate .HBM XML mapping files to Fluent NHibernate, and how some of the features of Fluent NHibernate made his work easier than expected
• Web Application Performance: CSS Data URIs – ‘Sanjay’ talks about, and looks at using Data URLs for transmitting CSS and Images to the browser from your .NET Applications
• The Halting Problem and the Church-Turing Thesis – Chris Smith shares some classic Computer Science with look at the concept of the Turing Machine, and the problem of determining if such a representation of a program will ever complete.

Community

• AltNetBeers – The Xmas Edition – The Cambridge (UK) .NET Developer’s User Group announce the date for their first official AltNetBeers style event to be held on 15th December at The Tram Depot in Cambridge
• NotAtPDC – The NotAtPDC website has been updated, and now includes video recordings of over half the sessions – there are a few of these that I really want to check out as I wasn’t able to see them live, so looking forward to spending some time watching

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