The Morning Brew #544
Posted by Chris Alcock on Monday 22nd February 2010 at 08:41 am | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- jQuery 1.4.2 Released – jQuery gets a further minor release on top of the 1.4 platform bringing a number of bugfixes and some impressive performance improvements giving a 3x improvement over jQuery 1.3.2
- Linq to SQL Profiler 1.0 Released! – Ayende announces the official 1.0 release of his LIQN to SQL profiler, based on the same principles as his NHibernate Profiler its sure to be a useful tool for anyone working with Linq to SQL. Licenses range in price between 150 and 200 Euro depending on quantity purchased.
- Microsoft Semblio – A set of tools for educators to create rich interactive content/training, with extensibility via SDK, .Net and WPF (SDK free available today, rest coming soon) – Greg Duncan highlights the announcement of Microsoft Semblio, a new tool which looks to be part of the Office 2010 family for creating interactive digital learning / training materials, allowing for extensions using WPF.
Information
- Using Mercurial with CodePlex and GitHub – Jeremy Skinner talks about the Mercurial Version Control system, reviewing its differences from GIT, and showing it in operation against GitHub and CodePlex repositories. Jeremy also has a guide to getting a Mercurial Server up and running on IIS7 located here: Technical Jargon » Hosting a Mercurial Server on IIS7
- Silverlight 4 – Accessing System Devices with Com Interop, such as a Scanner. – Brian Lagunas takes a quick look at COM interop from Silverlight using Out Of Browser applications, showing how it can interact with other applications (Outlook, Excel), running other applications, and doing Text to Speech and acquiring images from a scanner.
- Workflow Foundation Internals (I) , continued in Part II and Part III – Andrew Au takes a look at the innards of Windows Workflow 4 inspired by a similar overview for a previous version in the book Essential Windows Workflow Foundation.
- CQRS and CAP Theorem – Greg Young talks about how Command Query Responsibility Separation can make life easier when dealing with problems with the CAP Theorem which deals with linked principles of Consistency, Availability and Partitionability. Greg also digs deeper into Event Sourcing in his post Why use Event Sourcing?
- Eventual Consistency Is Just Caching – Udi Dahan cuts through all the bother about Eventual Consistency reminding us that Eventual Consistency is what we have whenever we Cache.
- Partial Validation in ASP.NET MVC 2 – Steve Sanderson discusses the change in validation between ASP.NET MVC 2 Release Candidate 1 and RC2, and looks at how you can achieve partial validation under these new circumstances.
- Manipulating Action Method Parameters – Phil Haack looks at a trick using Action Filters and routing to provide a way of mapping between friendly human readable URLs and Ids for use in controllers
- ASP.NET 4.0, Part 5: I’lll Name That Browser In One… – Dan Maharry continues his series looking at ASP.NET 4 with a look at the BrowserCapibilities Object.
- Creating x.509 certificates with Pluralsight self-cert – Mike Hadlow highlights a useful tool from Pluralsight for creating Self Signed x.509 Certificates and installing them correctly on the machine. Mike also highlights a Certificate Authority (StartSSL) who are offering certificates for free.
- Getting Started With Machine.Specifications (MSpec) – Jan Van Ryswyck takes a look at MSpec, talking through the installation of MSpec, and looking at re-creating a BDD style test in its briefer syntax.
- jQuery Custom Element and Global Events – Sergio Pereira takes a look at custom events and global events in the jQuery Framework, showing how a good understanding of them allow you to create good well structured UI Code
Community
- Brighton ALT.NET Beers. 7pm 2nd March at The Skiff – Mike Hadlow announces the details of the next Brighton ALT.NET Beers event, to be held on 2nd March
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