The Morning Brew

Last post of the 400’s today, and I have to confess I’ve not prepared much special for the big 500 tomorrow, but there are still a few hours for some plans to fall into place.

Software

• Nine Months Later: Mono 2.6 and MonoDevelop 2.2 – Miguel de Icaza highlights the release of Mono 2.6 and MonoDevelop 2.2, the latest major release from the Mono Project. Mono 2.6 boasts WCF client and server at the Silverlight 2.0 level, Linq to SQL, support for MSBuild projects, along with performance optimisations and a reduction in size. MonoDevelop 2.2 now has support for ASP.NET MVC, numerous UI improvements, T4 processor support, Mac and Windows support, new refactoring features, a new debugger and is now licensed as LGPLv2 and MIT X11

Information

• The impact of language choice on github projects – Aldo Cortesi takes a look at some statistics from the GitHub databases looking at the use of languages in projects, analysing the numbers of lines per commit, commit activity by language, and numerous other metrics. Interesting reading, even if you don’t agree with the analysis (and plenty of comments discussing it too)
• An Update on the FubuMVC Reboot – Jeremy D. Miller talks about the work he has undertaken to rewrite some of the core of the FubuMVC projects MVC implementation discussing his design principles for the changes and looking at the request lifecycle
• Making F# type inference friendly for C# – Jared Parsons talks about some of the pain of interoperability between F# and C# code which results in a proliferation of explicit types, and shows a trick using static non-generic classes to have the type system infer some of the type information needed.
• The Architecture Journal – The December 2009 issue of The Architects Journal takes Business Intelligence as its topic, with articles looking at bring the power of Business Intelligence to the hands of a large group of users.
• Entity Framework 4.0 Resources gets a December 2009 Update – Eric Nelson updates his Entity Framework Resources post with relevant links from the past few months, keeping his originals post as a great resource for all things EF4
• Entity Framework POCO (EF4): A Simple Mapping – Jarod Ferguson takes a look at the code only mapping functionality available in Entity Framework 4 working from nothing to some working EF code. In his next post in this series he look at creating a Generic Repository and Unit of Work Prototype, and in his latest post looks at using the Unity library to introduce some DI/IOC capabilities – Unity Extension for Entity Framework POCO Configuration, Repository and Unit of Work
• Remember JScript closures capture all variables in scope – Marcelo looks at an example of how closure in Javascript captures variables values which are in scope, reminding along the way that different languages work differently in this regard.
• Limiting Variable Scope Using (function(){})(); – David Walsh looks at a useful trick involving variable scope in Javascript which allows you to control your variables and keep them separate when writing JavaScript resources which may be combined on a single page.
• Fiilling an array with a default value – Mikael Svenson looks at the performance of 5 different ways of filling a large byte array with values, along with the code for each of the techniques
• Designing for Resilience in n-Tier applications (part 1) – Nuno Silva begins a series looking at the standard n-tier application architecture, and how performance and resilience can be improved in such an application structure
• Happy 10th birthday Cross-Site Scripting! – David Ross highlights the 10 year anniversary of the Cross Site Scripting attack, and how the name came into being (and some of the other alternatives suggested at the time)
• Injecting Your Favorite IoC Into MVC Turbine – Javier G. Lozano discusses some of the common questions regarding service location and component registration in his MVC Turbine project
• Live Preview jQuery Plugin – Phil Haack shares a nice jQuery plugin for providing live previews of HTML Content where there is a limited subset of tags available such as for use in blog comments.

Community

• A List Apart: The Survey, 2009 – A List Apart are running their anual survey for web developers looking at the state of the industry, how you work, your level of skills, and how you go about your business. The results from this survey have made interesting reading in the past, and if you work in a ‘people who make websites’ role I urge you to fill it out.

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