Heavy snow yesterday in Liverpool has resulted in chaos last night and this morning, with some of my colleagues taking up to 5 hours to get home last night. I took the decision to walk into the office today, and quite enjoyed the walk, but as a result today’s edition is a little later (and shorter) than usual. Hopefully normal service will be resumed tomorrow.
Software
- Updated Reflector.PowerCommands – Jason Haley announces an update to his Reflector PowerCommands project which adds in support for import and export of queries from within the query editor
- Commodore 64 JavaScript Emulator – Ajaxian shares an amazing port by Tim de Koning of the Flash Commodore 64 Emulator to JavaScript. The Commodore 64 was the computer I first started programming on, and will always have a special place in my heart
Information
- Test Driven Spikes (TDS) – Mark Nijhof talks about using Test Driven approaches when working with spike code to ensure that the code is of a reasonable quality that it can be re-purposed.
- How to Create and Activate an Introductory MSDN Premium Windows Azure and SQL Azure Account Upgrade – Roger Jennings runs through the setup process of the MSDN complementary license for Azure.
- BDD in .NET with Cucumber part 3: Scenario outlines and tabular templates – Gojko Adzic continues his series of posts on Behaviour Driven Development using the Cucumber framework. This 3rd part in the series looks at further techniques for working with repetitive scenarios
- How to effectively define a sufficient set of BDD scenarios/Acceptance tests? – Gojko also answers a readers question in his post ‘
- MVC 2 in Action book conducting public reviews – Jeffrey Palermo gives an update on the progress of the updated edition of ASP.NET MVC 2 In Action, and explains how you can get a preview glimpse of chapters as they are being written / updated.
- NHibernate vs. Entity Framework 4.0 – Ayende discusses the sensitive topic of NHibernate compared to the Entity Framework. I suspect this post will cause one or two reaction posts out there in the .NET blog’o’sphere
- NHibernate and "The multi-part identifier … could not be bound" Exception – Derik Whittaker shares the solution to an often encountered NHibernate problem when working with Cirteria queries.
- ASP.NET 4 SEO Improvements (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) – Scott Guthrie continues his series of posts looking at the .NET 4 release, and in this part talks about a number of improvements which have been made to ASP.NET for improving Search Engine Optimisation.
- A WaspKiller Game with Silverlight 3, .NET RIA Services, MVP and MVVM Patterns Part 2 – Xianzhong Zhu continues this DotNetSlackers tutorial series with the second part in this build a game series. This part looks at the back end parts of the system and using .NET RIA services to communicate with them from Silverlight.
Community
- VirtualDNUG.com a virtual .net users group – Andrew Siemer announce a new Virtual .NET Usergroup which is being supported by ineta