I had a great time at the DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper 8 Conference this weekend down in Reading UK. Many thanks to the organisers, speakers, sponsors and other attendees for making the event as good as it was. I’ve collected any DDD8 related content into a special section at the end of this post.
Software
- Q&A: What are the UK prices for the Windows Azure Platform – Eric Nelson highlights the UK pricing for the Windows Azure platform, pointing to the official pricing, along with including a 29th Jan snapshot of the prices for the various components available
- Pex v0.22.50128.1: Bug fixes, bug fixes, bug fixes – Jonathan "Peli" de Halleux announces another minor update to the Pex testing framework which bring a number of improvements to its use with ASP.NET and Sharepoint. Pex also teams up with Nikolai Tillmann for a short video demo looking at the Mole functionality of the framework (Moles – Replace any .NET method with a delegate)
- .Net Performance Testing and Optimisation – Free eBook – Paul Glavich highlights the availability of the first part of his new book (co-written with Chris Farrell) on Performance Testing and Optimisation in .NET. The best bit, its available as a free download from Red Gate.
Information
- Validating a variable length list, ASP.NET MVC 2-style – Steve Sanderson follows on from his previous post on lists in ASP.NET MVC with a look at applying validation to such a list using ASP.NET MVC2 techniques
- Remote Validation with ASP.NET MVC 2 – Brad Wilson talks about a feature which didn’t quite make it into ASP.NET MVC2 (but sounds like it will be included in the MVC Futures release) which deals with validation on the client side but performs behind the scenes calls to the web server to validate the values provided.
- ADO.NET Entity Framework and .NET 4 & Visual Studio 2010 Modeling Tools – Writing Code And Working with Entities to Add Data – Bruno Terkaly continues his series of posts on the Entity Framework with a look at using the Modelling features included in Visual Studio 2010 to create entities for use with the Entity Framework and looks at interacting with those entities and the database
- Implementing Domain Queries – John Teague looks at expanding on his current repository interface which is based on the one included in early versions of FluentNHibernate, introducing a version of the Domain Query pattern to help reduce repeated code in his applications.
- Iterator-based Microthreading – Michael Hutchinson talks about implementing a microthread scheduler which simulates multithreading using only a single real thread, something which is quite common practices in games programming. Interesting reading.
- What didn’t get into VB10: a wish-list for future versions of VB – Lucian Wischik starts a series of posts looking at features that the VB team are interested in implementing by which didn’t make it into the VS2010/.NET 4 release of Visual Basic.
- ASP.NET 4.0: How to use application warm-up class – Gunnar takes a look a the new Application Warm-Up functionality of ASP.NET 4, showing how to configure ant utilise it.
- Generic or Specific Routes? – Simon Ince considers deleting the default route in his ASP.NET MVC routing configuration and expressing each controllers route individually, and looks for feedback on the idea.
Developer Developer Developer 8
- DDD8 – Tim Ross
- DDD8: Mixing functional and object oriented approaches to programming in C# – Mark Needham
- Ben Hall’s Blog: DDD8: Albacore and Testing ASP.net Web Applications using Ruby
- My DDD8 Talk: An Introduction to IoC Containers with Castle Windsor – Mike Hadlow
- My MonoTouch session at DDD8 – Chris Hardy
- Commercial Software Development – my presentation for DDD8 now available for download – Liam Westley
- Entity Framework how to stop your DBA having a heart attack – Simon Sabin