The Morning Brew

Software

• Spec Explorer 2010, Release 3.2 Now Available! – Robert DuWors of the Spec Explorer Team announces the latest release of Spec Explorer 2010. This release targets Visual Studio 2010 Professional and higher, and brings with it a number of new features, including automation support, improved documentation, a new wizard for creating models, and a Choice API which adds better support for alternative responses in the application under test.
• RIA Services Release Candidate 2… – Deepesh Mohnani highlights the release of the Second Release Candidate release of the .NET Rich Internet Application (RIA) Services, a release which is compatible with the Silverlight 4 RTM and Visual Studio 2010 RTM.
• MonoMac Bindings: Blending Cocoa and .NET on OSX – Miguel de Icaza highlights a new release from the Mono Project, a side project which makes building Cocoa based applications which run on OSX using C# and .NET but with functionality bound to the native OSX functionality.
• Castle Windsor – Silverlight 4 binaries – Giorgetti Alessandro shares built assemblies of his Fork of the Castle Windsor IoC Container which will run under Silverlight 4.

Information

• Tekpub MVC 2.0 Starter Site – Rob Conery announces the release of the Tekpub MVC 2.0 Starter Site, released under an open source license, this is the sample application for the Tekpub ASP.NET MVC training series developed along with Steve Sanderson.
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – New Release and Joins – Matthew Podwysocki continues his series on the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript, highlighting a new release for the Extensions and takes a look at the Join functionality of the library which takes multiple event streams and synchronises and combines them
• Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 7 Minutes Each – Bruce D. Kyle highlights a series of 7 short Windows Phone 7 video tutorials looking at various aspects of Windows Phone 7 development.
• That No SQL Thing: Document Databases – usages – Ayende continues his series of posts on NoSQL databases, discussing the uses for Document Databases, focusing on why you might want to use one in your application
• Optional Parameters in C#4, C#3 and VB.Net, With a Side Order of IL Quirks – Steven Robbins digs into the IL behind Optional and Named parameters looking at this new functionality of C# and exploring how it works behind the scenes
• Every Binary Tree There Is – Eric Lippert explores Binary trees, looking at testing a routine that operates over binary trees by testing all possible trees, setting a couple of challenge questions at the end of the post (there are already plenty of comments discussing this one, so check them out too)
• Form Management: Tight Or Incorrect Coupling Can Cause Hard To Find Bugs – Derick Bailey shows a simple looking piece of code which contains an application crash bug along with memory leaks, and discusses why it is so important to decouple process from UI to help avoid these type of problem.
• Effective exercises for teaching TDD – Gojko Adzic shares a collection of links to Test Driven Development Teaching exercises, and discusses what makes a good TDD teaching exercise.

Community

• DDD South West – Registration for DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper South West 2.0, a free community event to be held in Bristol on Saturday 5th June opens at 10am today. The DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper series of conferences are a wonderful set of events, and I have the pleasure of joining the conference as a speaker. Registration is sure to fill up quickly, so make sure you register early if you want to attend.
• Service Broker (Intro + Guidance), Indexing (Selection, Usage, Fragmentation etc…), Normalisation, Surrogate Keys – Locking considerations – UK SQL Server User Group are running an event at Microsoft’s Reading Campus on Wednesday 21st April, where Tony Rogerson will talk on the subject of Sets, Normalisation, Surrogate keys and Referential Integrity, and Neil Hambly will look at the Service Broker and Indexing. The event is free, and starts around 6pm.

Charity

• Team Hanselman and Diabetes Walk 2010 – Well known developer and all round good guy Scott Hanselman is going to be taking part in the Diabetes Walk 2010, and is aiming to raise $50,000 for charity. If you are in a position to help out in this aim, please give generously.

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