The Morning Brew

Today’s edition number is another of those nice computery numbers. Today we still have plenty of snow and ice in the ground in Liverpool, but life is slowly returning to normal here.

Information

• Walkthrough: Windows Azure Table Storage (Nov 2009 and later) – Jim Nakashima updates his walk through of the creation of a sample application using Windows Azure and the Table Storage Service, serving as a useful introduction to both technologies, full code is provided and the article includes numerous snippets and screenshots to illustrate.
• Locate File in Solution Explorer – Visual Studio Macro – Brian Schmitt shares a Visual Studio macro which adds one of the Resharper features I use a lot to the standard Visual Studio, the ability to navigate to the working file in the solution explorer when Track Active Item (which eats performance) is not active.
• TDD: 4 questions that will help you create the simplest thing that could possibly work – Roy Osherove talks about the key TDD concept of the ‘Simplest thing that works’ and shares some tips to help you ensure that what you do conforms to this principle.
• Inheritance Patterns in YUI 3 – Stoyan Stefanov looks at two JavaScript code reuse patterns (Classical Inheritance and prototypal inheritance) that are implemented in the Yahoo! YUI 3 library,
• Much Ado About Monads – Reader Edition – Matthew Podwysocki takes a look at the Reader Monad as an alternative to the State Monad using a similar example to in his State Monad post.
• Lazy(T, TMetadata) Class in System.ComponentModel.Composition – David Hayden explores the .NET 4 Lazy<T> feature showing how it can be used to help manage expensive resource creation.
• Event Driven Architecture: Publishing Events using an IOC container – Jarod Ferguson continues his series on Advanced IOC container usage with a look at creating an event driven architecture around the IOC Container and looks at publishing events.
• The source code IS (still) the executable [Updated CSI, a C# interpreter (with source and tests) for .NET 4] – ‘Delay’ releases a new version of CSI, the C# Interpreter, one year after its first release. This release brings in support for C#4 Beta 2 along with a number of other improvements to the entry point support.
• Reactive Extensions API: Domain Events Example – Mike Chaliy looks at the types of problems that the Reactive Extensions can help to solve, looking at a fairly standard Bank Account example and making it observable,
• Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 hang while debugging? – Andrew Hall of the Visual Studio Debugger Team talks about a number of know problems that you may be encountering with Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Debugging, and offering some diagnostic assistance
• How developers learn survey results – interesting – Eric Nelson shares more detailed results from the MSDN UK Developer Seurvey, looking at the ways in which developers learn their craft, and the types of resources they use.

Community

• VBUG Bracknell: CANCELLED Test Driven Development to save, time, money – VBUG Bracknell’s event planned for tonight has been cancelled due to the adverse weather conditions that the UK has been suffering (or enjoying depending on your view point). The event may be re-scheduled, and If I see details of this I will include it in The Morning Brew.
• VBUG Bracknell: Windows Server App Fabric – VBUG Bracknell’s Feburary Event, to be held on Monday 15th February, will be featuring Santosh Benjamin talking on the Windows Server AppFabric
• New User Group in the North East of England – 20th Jan Silverlight and Hyper-V – Eric Nelson highlights the first event from a new North-East UK basedUser group. This first event sees Mike Taulty and James O’Neill talking on Silverlight and Hyper-V

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